The volume Minorities in Canada - Intercultural Investigations contains sixteen papers written by scholars based in Canada, Western and Central Europe. The multidisciplinary collection offers reflections on ongoing minority-related discourses in Canada ranging from philosophy through healthcare and anthropology to literary studies. Centring around two main thematic nodes, Canadian ethnic communities and Indigenous peoples, the papers discuss various inter- and transcultural issues.

Minorities in Canada ; intercultural investigations

Toward the end of the twentieth century, in art as well as ritual studies, cultural turns contributed to elaborating a broad definition of ritual and rituality. Rituality is now generally regarded as one of the master keys to understanding not only cultures in general but also arts in particular. Poetic rituality sheds light on the liminal characteristics of the art form and references to ritual practices, ritual forms and structures that are set in motion in a way that allows special aesthetic characteristics and semantic aspects to arise. The contributors to the volume - theatre and literary studies scholars as well as students from Yale, Bielefeld, Károli University, and the Grotowski Institute - had the opportunity to share their related works in the course of several recent international academic events.

Poetic Rituality in Theater and Literature

The present volume offers an interdisciplinary collection of twenty-four studies to readers interested in the religious, philosophical and artistic aspects of initiation. In itself, the concept of initiation presupposes that there is an initiator, someone to be initiated, and a secret rite or knowledge - in short, a mystery - into which the elect few would be admitted and which must not be revealed to the rest. Initiation is thus very personal, as it encompasses - in Christian theology at least - an encounter with God but also involves a communal experience. While in a European context, iniliation is an essentially Christian idea, not all the papers of the present volume turn to the Christian tradition for sources. Hermetism, Neoplatonism, pre-Christian paganism and Renaissance esotericism also find a place among the studies published here. Religion and philosophy are not the only viewpoints adopted by our authors, however ; the section on art and literature discusses initiation as it appears on stage, in novels, short stories, and drama as well as poetry, especially in modern European literature.

Initiation into the Mysteries - A Collection of Studies in Religion, Philosophy and the Art

The present volume offers an interdisciplinary collection of twenty-four studies to readers interested in the religious, philosophical and artistic aspects of initiation. In itself, the concept of initiation presupposes that there is an initiator, someone to be initiated, and secret rite or knoweledge-in short, a mystery-into which the elect few would be admitted and which must not be revealed to the rest. Initiation is thus very personal, as it encompasses-in Christian theology at least-an encounter with God but also involves a communal experience.

While in European context, initiation is an essentially Christian idea, not all the papers of the present volume turn to the Christian tradition for sources. Hermetism, Neoplatonism, pre-Christian paganism and Renaissance esotericism also find a place among the studies published here. Religion and philosophy are not the only viewpoints adopted by our authors, however; the section on art and litterature discusses initiation as it appears on stage, in novels, short stories, and drama as well as poetry, especially in modern European literature.

Initiation into the Mysteries

Students majoring in English get acquainted with Williams' text in the course "introduction to Literary Studies". Some frequently asked questions are : "What makes it a poem ?" "Wouldn't anybody be able to write such a text ?" Some students indeed get personally involved. They respond to litterature, either in verse, or in prose, sometimes through rewriting texts and sometimes in the traditional way, through literary analysis and research. This book testifies to the fact that they indeed have something to say.

This is just to say - A Collection of Creative Student-Responses

Le changement esthético-poétique qui se produit dans les années 1970 dans l'?uvre de János Pilinszky trouve une partie de son origine en France grâce aux nombreux séjours qu'il y effectue, mais aussi grâce aux trois domaines qui retiennent son attention : d'abord l'?uvre de Simone Weil, ensuite le renouveau liturgique qui servira de modèle à sa conception du théâtre, et finalement la prise de connaissance du théâtre de Robert Wilson.

Le "théâtre" immobile de János Pilinszky - Lu dans l'optique de Mallarmé, Simone Weil et Robert Wilson

Quatre questions sont ici posées par seize auteurs à l'œuvre de Simone Weil : 1. Que font les poèmes de Simone Weil, quel rôle jouent-ils dans la recherche de la philosophe, et qu'advient-il de cette recherche dans ceux de ses textes qu'on désigne du nom de " poèmes " ? 2. Quelle est la poétique du discours philosophique tel que le pratique Simone Weil dans les différents genres littéraires par lesquels elle a inventé sa pensée - dissertation, fragment, note, article, lettre, traité, journal, récit, poème, etc. ? Quelles contraintes spécifiques ces genres exercent-ils et quelles sortes de pensées conduisent-ils à privilégier, à accueillir, à refuser ? 3. Que dit la méditation de Simone Weil sur les poètes et sur la poésie, quelles interprétations a-t-elle données des nombreux poètes qu'elle a lus ou traduits, et quelle idée de la poétique en a-t-elle conçue ? 4. Enfin quel est le sens de l'influence exercée par Simone Weil, secrètement mais puissamment, sur les poètes de notre temps : sur Joë Bousquet, sur Maria Zambrano, sur Cristina Campo, sur Maurice Blanchot, sur Janos Pilinszky, sur Philippe Jaccottet, et bien d'autres encore ? Cet ouvrage présente en annexes deux poèmes de Simone Weil, puis trois textes traduits ici pour la première fois : de Maria Zambrano, de Cristina Campo, et de Janos Pilinszky.

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