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Hardcover Ritual Unbound: Reading Sacrifice in Modernist Fiction Book

ISBN: 1611492424

ISBN13: 9781611492422

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, 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...

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