Ritual, Myth and the Modernist Text: The Influence of Jane Ellen Harrison on Joyce, Eliot and Woolf

ISBN-13: 9781138985483 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 228 str.

Martha C. Carpentier

Opis

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Recenzje

"This is a creative work for linking literature, religion, and anthropology...the book would make for a valuable classroom text to explore such linkages in an introductory fashion."

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The “Anthropological Method” of Myth Interpretation: E.B. Tylor and Andrew Lang; Chapter 3 Myth and Magic: Frazer, Harrison, and the “Ritual Theory”; Chapter 4 Eleusis at Ithaca: Mother, Maid, and Witch in Joyce’S Ulysses; Chapter 5 Sweeney and the Matricidal Dance: the Evolution of T. S. Eliot’s Drama; Chapter 6 Orestes in the Drawing-Room: Mother, Maid, and Witch in T.S. Eliot’s the Family Reunion; Chapter 7 Themis in to the Lighthouse·. Jane Harrison and Virginia Woolf;

O autorze

Martha Carpentier is currently an associate professor in the English Department at Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, USA.