From the Preface: The title for this collection was the title of a course in literary criticism that I gave for many years at Bennington College. And much of th

From the Preface:The title for this collection was the title of a course in literary criticism that I gave for many years at Bennington College. And much of the

Language is not simply a tool for communication - symbolic power struggles underlie any speech act, discourse move, or verbal interaction, be it in face-to-face

In this book, Victor Turner is concerned with various kinds of social actions and how they relate to, and come to acquire meaning through, metaphors and paradig

Probes the nature of linguistic or symbolic action as it relates to specific novels, plays, and poems.