The Myth and Ritual School: J.G. Frazer and the Cambridge Ritualists

ISBN-13: 9780415939638 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 252 str.

Robert Ackerman

Opis

The only book that described the origins and rise of myth-and-ritual literary criticism.

Recenzje

"Providing a ddetailed oultine of their [the Cambridge Ritualists'] work as well as a concise summary of the history of myth interpretation, the book will appeal to anthropologists, historians, and classicists interested in an early attempt at cross-disciplinary hybridization." -- Religious Studies Review

Spis treści

Chapter 1 The Eighteenth Century—Rationalism and Reaction; Chapter 2 Romantic Historicism and Philology; Chapter 3 The Rise of Anthropology: Lang, Tylor, and Smith; Chapter 4 J. G. Frazer; Chapter 5 Jane Ellen Harrison: The Early Work; Chapter 6 Jane Ellen Harrison and the Cambridge Ritualists; Chapter 7 Years of Achievement—1912–14; Chapter 8 Aftermath;

O autorze

Robert Ackerman is a Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge