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Liminality is a major theme in Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald, in which the characters live between sea and land on docked boats, becoming liminal people. Saul Bellow's "varied uses of liminality...include his Dangling Man, suspended between civilian life and the armed forces" [63] at "the onset of the dangling days". [64]
By extension, liminal beings of a mixed, hybrid nature appear regularly in myth, legend and fantasy. A legendary liminal being is a legendary creature that combines two distinct states of simultaneous existence within one physical body.
Liminal spaces are commonly places of transition, pertaining to the concept of liminality. Research from the Journal of Environmental Psychology has indicated that liminal spaces may appear eerie or strange because they fall into an uncanny valley of architecture and physical places. [1]
Liminality, the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage; Liminal deity, a god or goddess in mythology who presides over thresholds, gates, or doorways; Liminal being, mythical being of ambiguous existence; Liminal state, English translation of bardo in Tibetan Buddhism
Liminality is a limbo, an ambiguous period characterized by humility, seclusion, tests, sexual ambiguity, and communitas. [3] During liminal phases, established social classifications and cultural norms often break down.
Liminality is a term given currency in the twentieth century by British cultural anthropologist Victor Turner. [4] It is used to describe a state of transition; such as from the old to the new, from the familiar to the unknown, even from an unconscious to the conscious state.
Rites of passage have three phases: separation, liminality, and incorporation, as van Gennep described. "I propose to call the rites of separation from a previous world, preliminal rites, those executed during the transitional stage liminal (or threshold) rites, and the ceremonies of incorporation into the new world postliminal rites." [5]
Communitas refers to an unstructured state in which all members of a community are equal allowing them to share a common experience, usually through a rite of passage. Communitas is characteristic of people experiencing liminality together. This term is used to distinguish the modality of social relationship from an area of common living.