Ritual Unbound: Reading Sacrifice in Modernist Fiction

by Thomas Cousineau

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611492424
• ISBN13: 9781611492422
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 187 Pages