Retrospect: A Future Recalled Experience is an unusual blending of Southwestern Pueblo Indian ritual and mythological stories as told in a fictional style. The novel contains actual tales told by the writer's grandfather in addition to transcripts of ceremonial visions experienced by the author. During the characters’ pilgrimage to seek a type of "Holy Grail", speculations abound when discussing "ancient alien" theories as a possible bond throughout history. In the aftermath of a nuclear conflagration, our protagonists discover the true nature of creation and reality. The story's final outcome will surprise the reader as much as it surprised the characters.
Curiouser and curiouser." With apologies to Lewis Carroll, this next collection of metaphysical misadventures flows from the previous two offerings. A lost, renegade friar fleeing the Spanish Inquisition of 1642? Protesting Italian winemakers seeking asylum on the reservation? A gypsy kiva mother living in a Winnebago supervising Ka'tsi-nas? And what of the traveling mariachi band from Indiana? Then the universe shifts. All bets are off when there occurs an argument with God regarding ontology, the very meaning of existence and being. On Mars? Our intrepid band of explorers continue to seek truth - and find political unrest requiring action. What follows is anyone's guess.
In this title, first published in 1985, Michael Bristol draws on several theoretical and critical traditions to study the nature and purpose of theatre as a social institution: on Marxism, and its revisions in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin; on the theories of Emile Durkheim and their adaptations in the work of Victor Turner; and on the history of social life and material culture as practiced by the Annales school. This valuable work is an important contribution to literary criticism, theatre studies and social history and has particular importance for scholars interested in the dramatic literature of Elizabethan England.
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