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Avant-garde (Aesthetics). --- Performing arts in literature. --- Ritual in literature.

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Myth in literature. --- Ritual in literature. --- Modernism (Literature)

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In this book, Bill Gladhill studies one of the most versatile concepts in Roman society, the ritual event that concluded an alliance, a foedus (ritual alliance). Foedus signifies the bonds between nations, men, men and women, friends, humans and gods, gods and goddesses, and the mass of matter that gives shape to the universe. From private and civic life to cosmology, Roman authors, time and time again, utilized the idea of ritual alliance to construct their narratives about Rome. To put it succinctly, Roman civilization in its broadest terms was conditioned on ritual alliance. Yet, lurking behind every Roman relationship, in the shadows of Roman social and international relations, in the dark recesses of cosmic law, were the breakdown and violation of ritual alliance and the release of social pollution. Rethinking Roman Alliance investigates Roman culture and society through the lens of foedus and its consequences.

Latin poetry --- Ritual in literature. --- Literature and society --- History and criticism.

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Performance in the Texts of Mallarme offers a new theory of performance in the poetic and critical texts of Stephane Mallarme, a theory challenging the prevailing interpretation of his work as epitomizing literary purism and art for art's sake.Following an analytical presentation of the concepts of ritual and performance generally applied, Mary Shaw shows that Mallarme perceived music, dance, and theater as ideal languages of the body and therefore as ideal forms of ritual through which to supplement and celebrate poetic texts. She focuses on previously unexplored references to supplementary, extratextual performances in four of Mallarme's major poetic texts--- Herodiade, L'apres-midi d'un faune, Igitur, and Un coup de des--- revealing the consistent formal expression of his original conception of literature's relationship to the performing arts.Shaw then discusses Mallarme's monumental project, Le Livre, a metaphysical book designed to be performed in a series of ritual celebrations. She analyzes and describes the intrinsic structure and contents of this unfinished work as the fullest realization of the text-performance relationship elaborated throughout Mallarme's corpus. Shaw offers Le Livre as a prototype of avant-garde performance, drawing important parallels between Mallarme's literary experimentation and crucial developments in twentieth-century arts.

Performing arts in literature. --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Ritual in literature. --- Mallarmé, Stéphane,

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Religion and literature --- Ritual in literature --- George, Stefan, --- George, Stefan, --- Aesthetics. --- Religion. --- Catholic Church --- Liturgy.