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Ritual and Closure in Sophocles' Ajax
Helios Pub Date : 2019-01-01 , DOI: 10.1353/hel.2019.0000
Adriana Brook

Abstract:While the burial at the end of Sophocles' Ajax is often interpreted as offering a form of ritual closure, this paper argues that the burial equally undermines closure. I use van Gennep's rite of passage model and Aristotle's Poetics to establish that both ritual and tragedy follow analogous, predictable tripartite progressions. On this foundation, I show that, as the Ajax's plot progresses from beginning to middle to end, the three principal ritual scenes in the play together depict a reverse ritual progression from end to middle to beginning or, in van Gennep's terms, from postliminal to liminal to preliminary. This clearly defined chiastic structure offers one explanation for the ambiguity of the play's exodos.

中文翻译:

索福克勒斯《阿贾克斯》中的仪式和结束

摘要:虽然索福克勒斯的《阿贾克斯》结尾处的葬礼通常被解释为提供了一种仪式的结束,但本文认为,葬礼同样破坏了结束。我使用 van Gennep 的仪式模型和亚里士多德的诗学来确定仪式和悲剧都遵循类似的、可预测的三方进程。在此基础上,我表明,随着阿贾克斯的情节从头到尾的推进,剧中三个主要的仪式场景共同描绘了从尾到中到头的反向仪式进程,或者用范热内普的话说,从后阈值到阈值到初步。这种明确定义的混沌结构为该剧出处的模糊性提供了一种解释。
更新日期:2019-01-01
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