单词 | sparagmos |
释义 | sparagmosn. The tearing apart of a hero, or his ritualized death in an analogous manner as represented in some tragedies or myths when it symbolizes part of the cycle of death and rebirth. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > death > [noun] sparagmos1949 molimo1960 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > other parts of play narration1586 coup de théâtre1747 tableau1808 sparagmos1949 parabasis1952 1949 F. Fergusson Idea of Theater i. 32 The ritual had..its Sparagmos, in which the royal victim was literally or symbolically torn asunder. 1957 N. Frye Anat. Crit. iii. 192 The disappearance of the hero, a theme which often takes the form of sparagmos or tearing to pieces. Sometimes the hero's body is divided among his followers. 1961 J. Holloway Story of Night vii. 130 The death of Coriolanus is almost as much a sparagmos of the ritual victim by the whole social group as was possible on the stage. 1977 Dædalus Summer 62 Not that conferences alone can do this, but they are signals that the reconstitution of anthropology at a higher level under the aegis of processualism is under way. Otherwise the centrifugal drift, indeed, the suicidal sparagmos, will go on and on. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1949 |
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