Coping with Permanent Liminality: Social Understanding and Action through Theatre in Late Communist Hungary

Theatre is the modern liminoid equivalent of ritual liminality, according to Victor Turner. It is also, like most arts, a Janus-faced phenomenon: on one hand, it is a way to systematically infect the public with mimetic desire and rivalry (this is the aspect emphasised, quite rightly, by Plato and R...

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Main Author: Arpad Szakolczai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-11-01
Series:Social Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/12/652