Ritual unbound : reading sacrifice in modernist fiction /
"This study explores the vestiges of primitive sacrificial rituals that emerge in a group of canonical modernist novels. It argues that these novels reenact a process that achieved its seminal expression in the Genesis story of "The Binding of Isaac," in which Abraham, prevented from...
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Newark : Cranbury, NJ :
University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: from ritual to modernism
- Occulted rivalry in The turn of the screw
- Heart of darkness: the outsider demystified
- Borrowed desire in The good soldier
- The great Gatsby: romance or Holocaust?
- Ending rituals in To the lighthouse.