The Literary Impact of The Golden Bough
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The Literary Impact of The Golden Bough

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The Literary Impact of The Golden Bough

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. I The Golden Bough and the Nineteenth-Century Milieu
  5. II The Controlling Ideas of the Golden Bough
  6. III The Intellectual Influence of the Golden Bough
  7. IV The Golden Bough: Impact and Archetype
  8. V The Literary Uses of the Golden Bough
  9. VI William Butler Yeats: The Tragic Hero as Dying God
  10. VII T. S. Eliot: The Anthropology of Religious Consciousness
  11. VIII D. H. Lawrence: The Evidence of the Poetry
  12. IX D. H. Lawrence: The Mythic Elements
  13. X James Joyce: From the Beginnings to a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  14. XI James Joyce: Ulysses and the Anthropological Reality
  15. XII James Joyce: Ulysses and the Artist as Dying God
  16. XIII James Joyce: Ulysses and the Human Scapegoat
  17. XIV James Joyce: Finnegans Wake and the Rituals of Mortality
  18. Index