Victor Turner and the Construction of Cultural Criticism

Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction/Kathleen M. Ashley

Part I: Cultural Theory and Literary Studies
Experiencing Murder/Ritualistic Interpretation of Ancient Tests/Mieke Bal
Aesthetics, Roman, and Turner/David Raybin
Liminality, Carnival, and Social Structure/The Case of Late Medieval Biblical Drama/C. Clifford Flanigan
Narratives of Ritual and Desire/Thomas Pavel
Liminality and Fiction in Cooper, Hawthorne, Cather, and Fitzgerald/Robert Daly
Mud, Mirrors, and Making Up/Liminality and Reflexivity in Between the Acts/Barbara A. Babcok
Symbolism and the Problematics of Postmodern Representation/Stephen William Foster

Part II: Turner's Theory and Practice
Victor Turner's Definition, Theory, and Sense of Ritual/Ronald L. Grimes
"Hyperion to a Satyr"/Criticism and Anti-structure in the Work of Victor Turner/Frederick Turner
The Literary Roots of Victor Turner's Anthropology/Edith Turner
Victor Turner's Career and Publications/Frank E. Manning

Contributors
Index