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Author : Jessie L. Weston
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1993-05-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691021074
A study of the Grail legend explores the saga's Gnostic roots and its relationship to ancient nature cults that associated the physical condition of the king with the productivity of the land.
Author : Jessie Laidlay Weston
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Art
ISBN : EAN:8596547098416
From Ritual to Romance is a landmark, intensely academic in its style, describing the Holy Grail legend. Anybody would be fascinated by the essay's examination of various folklore and Christian elements to provide parallels between the legend and certain cults' symbolism.
Author : Allen Guttmann
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780231517072
Originally published in 1978, From Ritual to Record was one of the first books to recognize the importance of sports as a lens on the fundamental structure of societies. In this reissue, Guttmann emphasizes the many ways that modern sports, dramatically different from the sports of previous eras, have profoundly shaped contemporary life.
Author : Jessie L. Weston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429627248
Published in 1965: In the following pages the author has endeavoured to give, as clearly and concisely as possible, a description of the literature composing the Grail cycle, an analysis of its content and a survey of the leading theories to which this perplexing body of romance has given rise.
Author : Jessie L. Weston
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1519481721
Classic Literature An Academic Examination of the Roots of the King Arthur Legends From Ritual to Romance Jessie L. Weston From Ritual to Romance is a 1920 book written by Jessie L. Weston. The work is notable for being mentioned by T. S. Eliot in the notes to his poem, The Waste Land: Not only the title, but the plan and a good deal of the incidental symbolism of the poem were suggested by Miss Jessie L. Weston's book. Weston's book is an academic examination of the roots of the King Arthur legends and seeks to make connections between the early pagan elements and the later Christian influences. The book's main focus is on the Holy Grail tradition and its influence, particularly the Wasteland motif. The origins of Weston's book are in James George Frazer's seminal work on folklore, magic and religion, The Golden Bough (1890), and in the works of Jane Ellen Harrison. The book appears in the film Apocalypse Now (1979), among those kept by the character, Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, played by Marlon Brando, along with The Golden Bough. The book appears in the limited series Batman: Tenses where it is thrown in a fire by Ted Krosby before he kills his father.
Author : Dara Joy
Publisher : Thorndike Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0783896441
In a world where women hold all the power, the only purpose for a man is to secure a good match and hope his "bed price" is high enough. Jorlan Reynard is chosen by the Marquelle Gree Tamryn, and, in a bold move, the powerful aristocrat marries him, offering him the security of her name and position. When a conspiracy arises against her, the Marquelle must summon all her influence to fight for their survival. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Pamela Regis
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812203103
The romance novel has the strange distinction of being the most popular but least respected of literary genres. While it remains consistently dominant in bookstores and on best-seller lists, it is also widely dismissed by the critical community. Scholars have alleged that romance novels help create subservient readers, who are largely women, by confining heroines to stories that ignore issues other than love and marriage. Pamela Regis argues that such critical studies fail to take into consideration the personal choice of readers, offer any true definition of the romance novel, or discuss the nature and scope of the genre. Presenting the counterclaim that the romance novel does not enslave women but, on the contrary, is about celebrating freedom and joy, Regis offers a definition that provides critics with an expanded vocabulary for discussing a genre that is both classic and contemporary, sexy and entertaining. Taking the stance that the popular romance novel is a work of literature with a brilliant pedigree, Regis asserts that it is also a very old, stable form. She traces the literary history of the romance novel from canonical works such as Richardson's Pamela through Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Brontë's Jane Eyre, and E. M. Hull's The Sheik, and then turns to more contemporary works such as the novels of Georgette Heyer, Mary Stewart, Janet Dailey, Jayne Ann Krentz, and Nora Roberts.
Author : Victor Witter Turner
Publisher : New York City : Performing Arts Journal Publications
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:49015001107995
Turner looks beyond his routinized discipline to an anthropology of experience . . . We must admire him for this.-Times Literary Supplement
Author : Natalie MacNeil
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781797200941
This stirring collection presents spiritual rituals from around the world and offers guidance on bringing the powerful practices into modern life. Filled with fascinating details on the history and meaning behind a wide range of sacred rituals for love, awareness, joy, and so much more, this timeless handbook guides readers through more than 40 empowering practices—including a candlelight ritual for renewal, a soothing ritual for unwinding, and a tea ceremony for fostering connection and gratitude. With evocative watercolors throughout, this book is a lovely invitation to nourish the mind, body, and soul through enduring rituals for well-being.
Author : A. Booth
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137482846
A guidebook to the allusions of T.S. Eliot's notorious poem, The Waste Land , Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up utilizes the footnotes as a starting point, opening up the poem in unexpected ways. Organized according to Eliot's line numbers and designed for both scholars and students, chapters are free-standing and can be read in any order.
Author : Bonnie Vanak
Publisher : Bonnie Vanak Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Long ago, Unseelie Prince Gideon lost Lady Eleanor, princess of the rival Seelie kingdom, and vowed to never love again. Now the immortal Crimson Wizard, the handsome, sexy and lethal Gideon loses his powers as punishment for sharing magick to restore a fellow wizard’s life. But there are greater dangers at risk, for a terrible darkness threatens the peace treaty that Gideon died to implement. Glamoured as an Unseelie Prince, Gideon is pledged in marriage to Lady Alia, the curvy and lovely daughter of the Seelie king. Their marriage will keep the fragile truce. Princess Alia fights a battle of her own, for women are scorned and abused in her father’s kingdom. To spare her people from her father’s cruelty and save her little sister from slavery, she must assassinate her groom, which will start a war between the two rival kingdoms. But gentle-hearted Alia is falling in love with Gideon, who treats her with all the tenderness and concern she’s longed for her entire life. Little does she know she is the key to restoring Gideon’s broken heart, and helping him to stop the evil infiltrating both kingdoms and killing everything in its path…
Author : Skye Alexander
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781507203637
From the author of the Modern Witchcraft series comes a new book on romantic spells to bring you love, companionship, and passion, with straightforward, accessible spell instructions. The Modern Witchcraft Book of Love Spells is a comprehensive collection that will help you get the love you want—from manifesting a mate, to blessing and helping new love, to helping you reconnect with a partner and stoking the flame to add fire to your romance. This book will guide you toward your romantic desires to find love—with the help of a little magic!
Author : Thomas Cousineau
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0874138515
This study explores the vestiges of primitive sacrificial rituals that emerge in a group of canonical modernist novels, including The Turn of the Screw, Heart of Darkness, The Good Soldier, The Great Gatsby, and To the Lighthouse. 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, having been prevented from sacrificing Isaac, offers up a ram in his place. Modernist reenactments of this pattern present narrators who, although vigorously protesting the victimization of certain characters, unfailingly seize upon others as their surrogates. Each novel is designed in such a way, however, as to resist the reconstruction of a sacrificial ritual to which its narrator is prone. The resulting tension between the binding and unbinding of ritual persecution dramatizes the paradox that we can neither believe convincingly in the guilt of our scapegoats nor imagine a society that has dispensed with them entirely. Thomas Cousineau is Professor of English at Washington College in Maryland.
Author : Jessie L. Weston
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368331191
Reproduction of the original.
Author : Jessie Weston
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1482651424
Acknowledged by T. S. Eliot as crucial to understanding "The Waste Land, " Jessie Weston's book has continued to attract readers interested in ancient religion, myth, and especially Arthurian legend. Weston examines the saga of the Grail, which, in many versions, begins when the wounded king of a famished land sees a procession of objects including a bleeding lance and a bejewelled cup. She maintains that all versions defy uniform applications of Celtic and Christian interpretations, and explores the legend's Gnostic roots.Drawing from J. G. Frazer, who studied ancient nature cults that associated the physical condition of the king with the productivity of the land, Weston considers how the legend of the Grail related to fertility rites--with the lance and the cup serving as sexual symbols. She traces its origins to a Gnostic text that served as a link between ancient vegetation cults and the Celts and Christians who embellished the story. Conceiving of the Grail saga as a literary outgrowth of ancient ritual, she seeks a Gnostic Christian interpretation that unites the quest for fertility with the striving for mystical oneness with God.
