Ritual, Myth and the Modernist Text
The Influence of Jane Ellen Harrison on Joyce, Eliot and Woolf
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2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-98548-3 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-98548-3 (ISBN)
First Published in 1998. Volume 12 in the Library of Anthropology series. This text traces the influence of Jane Ellen Harrison, a brilliant classicist and one of the 'Cambridge Anthropologists' on Jams Joyce, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf. Decade of critical over-emphasis on Sir James Frazer's influence on modernism have obscured the more important contributions of Harrison, who explored the chthonic Greek matriarchal cults prior to patriarchal Olympianism and originated the 'ritual theory', finding the origins of Greek drama- and ultimately of all art, in religious ritual. Harrison's images of matriarchal divinity and the feminist principles they embodied inspired these modernist writers to envision the young artist reborn as creator through symbolic union with the semiotic body.
Martha Carpentier is currently an associate professor in the English Department at Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, USA.
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;
Erscheinungsdatum | 03.03.2016 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 453 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 1-138-98548-1 / 1138985481 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-98548-3 / 9781138985483 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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