The scapegoat: ritual and literature. / Edited by John B. Vickery [and] J'nan M. Sellery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vickery, John B., compiler.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Sellery, J'nan M., compiler.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scapegoat--Literary collections.

Scapegoat.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 386 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1971]

Contents:

The scapegoat and his rituals. The scapegoat ; The transference of evil ; The omnipresence of demons ; Public scapegoats ; On scapegoats in general ; Human scapegoats in classical antiquity / Sir James Frazer

The day of atonement / E.O. James

The scapegoat king / Jacob Bronowski

The scapegoat psychology / Erich Neumann.

The scapegoat in literature. The Bacchae / Euripides

Euripides' "Bacchae" and the ritual pattern of tragedy / Gilbert Murray

My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne

Yankee bumpkin and scapegoat king / Daniel Hoffman

England, my England / D.H. Lawrence

Myth and ritual in "England, my England" / John B. Vickery

Dry September / William Faulkner

Ritual and theme in Faulkner's "Dry September" / John B. Vickery

The scapegoat / V.S. Pritchett

Ritual in the streets : a study of Pritchett's "The scapegoat" / J'nan M. Sellery and John B. Vickery

The lottery / Shirley Jackson

Going to meet the man / James Baldwin

The scapegoat / August Strindberg.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Vickery, John B. Scapegoat: ritual and literature.

ISBN:

0395112567

9780395112564

OCLC:

239945