The Literary Impact Of The Golden Bough

Author : John B Vickery
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400871575

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The Literary Impact of The Golden Bough by John B Vickery Pdf

Frazer, with Freud, Marx, and Jung, is one of the thinkers who have had a deep and pervasive influence on modern literature. One of the great nineteenth-century syntheses, The Golden Bough was the culmination of a century of investigations into myth and ritual. John Vickery locates The Golden Bough in the context of its age and shows how, by gathering up many strands of nineteenth-century thought, it embodied the dominant intellectual tradition shaping the modern spirit. The author's intimate acquaintance with an extraordinary range of modern literature enables him to demonstrate the variety of strategies that poets and novelists have used to assimilate The Golden Bough in their individual attitudes and preoccupations. The remaining chapters of the book are devoted to extended discussions of the intellectual, thematic, and format impact of The Golden Bough on Yeats, Eliot, Lawrence, and Joyce. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Aram A. Yengoyan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0472069187

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Modes of Comparison by Aram A. Yengoyan Pdf

"In Modes of Comparison: Theory and Practice, the contributors highlight how theoretical problems have brought forth new ideas on comparison and how comparison has become pivotal in the human sciences. Each of the essays questions a number of critical and contemporary issues in history, sociology, and anthropology as they relate to various ideas of comparison."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : J.G. Frazer
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 945 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781847675347

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The Golden Bough by J.G. Frazer Pdf

The authoritative 1890 edition with an introduction by Cairns Craig and Frazer’s own afterword. Published originally in two volumes in 1890, this extraordinary study of primitive myth and magic led Scottish anthropologist J.G. Frazer to identify parallel patterns of ritual, symbols and belief across many centuries and many different cultures. His observations on the mysteries of fertility and death, and the rites of the sacrificial king who must die to save his people, overturned much of contemporary intellectual thinking, not least because of the enlightening or ‘heretical’ parallels it suggested with the Christian religion. Frazer’s elegant and authoritative style, and the breadth of his learning inspired a whole generation of ethnographers and comparative anthropologists, and had a particularly powerful effect on many other thinkers and writers such as Sigmund Freud, D.H. Lawrence, Joyce, Yeats and T.S. Eliot. This definitive volume includes the unabridged original 1890 edition as well as several essays and lectures by Frazer. ‘Frazer’s work has epic scale yet mesmerizing fineness of detail. We see the great structures of civilization forming and melting against a background of elemental mystery. The effect is cinematic and sublime.’ Camille Paglia

Author : James George Frazer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780191605604

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The Golden Bough by James George Frazer Pdf

A classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, and the progress through magic and religion to scientific thought, The Golden Bough has a unique status in modern anthropology and literature. First published in 1890, The Golden Bough was eventually issued in a twelve-volume edition (1906-15) which was abridged in 1922 by the author and his wife. That abridgement has never been reconsidered for a modern audience. In it some of the more controversial passages were dropped, including Frazer's daring speculations on the Crucifixion of Christ. For the first time this one-volume edition restores Frazer's bolder theories and sets them within the framework of a valuable introduction and notes. A seminal work of modern anthropolgy, The Golden Bough also influenced many twentieth-century writers, including D H Lawrence, T S Eliot, and Wyndham Lewis. Its discussion of magical types, the sacrificial killing of kings, the dying god, and the scapegoat is given fresh pertinence in this new edition. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : James George Frazer
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 843 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547386834

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The Golden Bough by James George Frazer Pdf

The Golden Bough is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer. The book documents and details the similarities among magical and religious beliefs around the globe. Frazer attempted to define the shared elements of religious belief and scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat, and many other symbols and practices whose influences had extended into 20th-century culture. His thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship and periodic sacrifice of a sacred king. Frazer proposed that mankind progresses from magic through religious belief to scientific thought. The influence of The Golden Bough on contemporary European literature and thought is substantial.

Author : Robert Fraser
Publisher : Springer
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1990-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349209200

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Sir James Frazer And The Literary Imagination by Robert Fraser Pdf

Author : Mark S. Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-06
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780195167689

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The Origins of Biblical Monotheism by Mark S. Smith Pdf

One of the leading scholars of ancient West Semitic religion discusses polytheism vs. monotheism by covering the fluidity of those categories in the ancient Near East. He argues that Israel's social history is key to the development of monotheism.

Author : Jeremy Diaper
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781942954613

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T. S. Eliot and Organicism by Jeremy Diaper Pdf

This book reads T. S. Eliot’s poetry and plays in light of his sustained preoccupation with organicism. It demonstrates that Eliot’s environmental concerns emerged as a notable theme in his literary works from his early poetry notebook of poems known as Inventions of the March Hare at least until Murder in the Cathedral.

Author : John Cowper Powys
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1351336326

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A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys Pdf

Author : Alan Dundes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0847695158

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International Folkloristics by Alan Dundes Pdf

International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and legend to custom and belief. Twenty classic essays, beginning with a piece by Jacob Grimm, reveal the evolving theoretical underpinnings of folkloristics from its nineteenth century origins to its academic coming-of-age in the twentieth century. Each piece is prefaced by extensive editorial introductions placing them in a historical and intellectual context. The twenty essays presented here, including several never published previously in English, will be required reading for any serious student of folklore.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410346957

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A Study Guide for James Frazer's "The Golden Bough" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

Author : Joseph T. Stuart
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813234571

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Christopher Dawson by Joseph T. Stuart Pdf

The English historian Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) was the first Catholic Studies professor at Harvard University and has been described as one of the foremost Catholic thinkers of modern times. His focus on culture prefigured its importance in Catholicism since Vatican Council II and in the rise of mainstream cultural history in the late twentieth century. How did Dawson think about culture and why does it matter? Joseph T. Stuart argues that through Dawson’s study of world cultures, he acquired a “cultural mind” by which he attempted to integrate knowledge according to four implicit rules: intellectual architecture, boundary thinking, intellectual asceticism, and intellectual bridges. Dawson’s multilayered approach to culture, instantiating John Henry Newman’s philosophical habit of mind, is key to his work and its relevance. By it, he responded to the cultural fragmentation he sensed after the Great War (1914-1918). Stuart supports these claims by demonstrating how Dawson formed his cultural mind practicing an interdisciplinary science of culture involving anthropology, sociology, history, and comparative religion. Stuart shows how Dawson applied his cultural thinking to problems in politics and education. This book establishes how Dawson’s simple definition of culture as a “common way of life” reconciles intellectualist and behavioral approaches to culture. In addition, Dawson’s cultural mind provides a synthesis helpful for recognizing the importance of Christian culture in education. It demonstrates principles which construct a more meaningful cultural history. Anyone interested in the idea of culture, the connection of religion to the social sciences, Catholic Studies, or Dawson studies will find this book an engaging and insightful intellectual history.

Author : M. Sterenberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137354976

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Mythic Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain by M. Sterenberg Pdf

A variety of thinkers used the concept of myth to articulate their anxieties about modernity. By telling the story of mythic thinking in Britain from its origins in Victorian social anthropology to its postwar cultural mainstreaming, this book reveals a yearning for transcendence in an age long assumed to be disenchanted.

Author : Cairns Craig
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748679331

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Intending Scotland by Cairns Craig Pdf

A major reconsideration of our understanding of the development of Scottish culture from the Enlightenment to the present day.

Author : Timothy Larsen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191026560

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The Slain God by Timothy Larsen Pdf

Throughout its entire history, the discipline of anthropology has been perceived as undermining, or even discrediting, Christian faith. Many of its most prominent theorists have been agnostics who assumed that ethnographic findings and theories had exposed religious beliefs to be untenable. E. B. Tylor, the founder of the discipline in Britain, lost his faith through studying anthropology. James Frazer saw the material that he presented in his highly influential work, The Golden Bough, as demonstrating that Christian thought was based on the erroneous thought patterns of 'savages.' On the other hand, some of the most eminent anthropologists have been Christians, including E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, and Edith Turner. Moreover, they openly presented articulate reasons for how their religious convictions cohered with their professional work. Despite being a major site of friction between faith and modern thought, the relationship between anthropology and Christianity has never before been the subject of a book-length study. In this groundbreaking work, Timothy Larsen examines the point where doubt and faith collide with anthropological theory and evidence.