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Ritual, Myth and the Modernist Text The Influence of Jane Ellen Harrison on Joyce, Eliot and Woolf
By Martha Carpentier
Copyright 1998
228 Pages
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Routledge
224 Pages
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226 Pages
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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... Read more
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;
Biography
Martha Carpentier is currently an associate professor in the English Department at Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, USA.
"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."
