INITIATION INTO THE MYSTERIES - A COLLECTION OF STUDIES IN RELIGION, PHILOSOPHY AN THE ART

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.

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.

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 Ina way that allows special aesthetic characteristics and semantic aspects to arise. The contributors to the volume - theater and literary studies scholars as well as students from Yale, Bielefeld, Károll University, and the Grotowski Institute - had the opportunity to share their related works In the course of several recent International academic events. Since our team also included dramatists, dramaturgs, and directors of theater, our workshops offered frames for sharing insights Into artistic laboratories, especially in the barrack-dramaturgy of András Visky and the work led by Jaroslaw Fret at the Grotowski Theater. Complementing the many different approaches to poetic rituality, all of the workshop presentations and studies brought together in the present volume continue to demonstrate how fundamentally rituality can contribute to the formal, semantic, pragmatic, and structural unfolding of literary and theatrical art works. Besides continuous theoretical reflections, a vost array of examples Is given, ranging from Greek, Japanese, English, and Hungarian to German, Russian, French, and Sámi drama, performance, and theater productions, as the studies in the present volume also Illustrate.

Cet ouvrage invite le lecteur à étudier la fonction de l'acte contemplatif dans son rapport à l'espace et au temps, en s'interrogeant notamment sur la valeur et la portée épistémiques de cet acte lorsqu'il se détermine en relation à une réalité représentée comme "infinie". Conçu dans un contexte interdisciplinaire, le recueil regroupe les études et réflexions de chercheurs français et hongrois de différentes spécialités.