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 publication focuses on the examination of literary diversity. On the one hand it deals with the literature of various endangered languages (especially that of the Sámi), and develops first considerations in constructing a comparative paradigm for mapping the vulnerability of literary processes. On the other, this book pays attention to thematic, formal and stylistic aspects of contemporary translingual literary productions. Special attention is here given to the latest developments in the Finnish literary field. The foci of endangerment and translingualism require addressing several other related literary phenomena such as literary ecology, "écriture multiculturelle", code-switching or intercultural dialogism in present day world literature.

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