Title: Ritual unbound
First published: 2004
Description: "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 sacrificing Isaac, offers up a ram in his place. Abraham's gesture breaks with the archaic practice of human sacrifice but implies the necessity of finding a substitute victim."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Modernism (Literature), Scapegoat in literature, Sacrifice in literature, English fiction, History and criticism, Rites and ceremonies in literature, Fitzgerald, f. scott (francis scott), 1896-1940, Woolf, virginia, 1882-1941, Conrad, joseph, 1857-1924, James, harry, 1916-1983, English fiction, history and criticism, 20th century
Places: United States, Great Britain
People: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), Henry James (1843-1916), Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PR888.S32 C68 2004