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From ritual killings to subtle acts of self-denial, the practice and rhetoric of sacrifice has a special centrality in modern American literature. In a compelling interdisciplinary invest… Plus…
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The Science of Sacrifice : American Literature and Modern Social Theory by Susan L. Mizruchi - livre d'occasion
ISBN: 9780691068923
From ritual killings to subtle acts of self-denial, the practice and rhetoric of sacrifice has a special centrality in modern American literature. In a compelling interdisciplinary invest… Plus…
Susan L. Mizruchi:
Science of Sacrifice : American Literature and Modern Social Theory by Susan L. Mizruchi - livre d'occasionISBN: 9780691068923
From ritual killings to subtle acts of self-denial, the practice and rhetoric of sacrifice has a special centrality in modern American literature. In a compelling interdisciplinary invest… Plus…
1998
ISBN: 0691068925
Edition reliée
[EAN: 9780691068923], Used, as new, [PU: Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey], LITERATURE ANTHROPOLOGY SOCIETY REALISM SCAPEGOAT, Book is a clean tight unmarked copy., Books
1998, ISBN: 9780691068923
Princeton University Press, 1998-05-04. Hardcover. Used:Good., Princeton University Press, 1998-05-04, 0
1998, ISBN: 0691068925
[EAN: 9780691068923], New book, [PU: Princeton University Press], Books
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From ritual killings to subtle acts of self-denial, the practice and rhetoric of sacrifice has a special centrality in modern American literature. In a compelling interdisciplinary investigation, Susan Mizruchi portrays an episode in American cultural history when the literary movement of realism and the fledgling field of sociology both converged in the belief that sacrifice is basic to sociality. This is a book about the fascination that sacrifice held for writers--principally Herman Melville, Henry James, and W.E.B. Du Bois--and also for those who articulated the main tenets of modern social theory, an inquiry that eventually spans historical events such as public lynchings and the political scapegoating of immigrants a century ago.
The execution in Billy Budd Sailor, the death of Du Bois's first-born son in The Souls of Black Folk, Henry James's preoccupation with renunciation and scapegoating, and the self-denying working classes of Norris and Stein all illustrate repeated stagings of sacrificial rituals from a Biblical past. For Mizruchi, the peculiar persistence of this aesthetic construct becomes a guide to a rich theological and social-scientific tradition distinctive to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and including such influential works as Smith's Lectures on the Religion of the Semites, Frazer's Golden Bough, and Ross's Sin and Society.
The major features of sacrifice--its original association with spiritual doubt, its function as a form of spiritual economics that sustained divisions between the fortunate and the bereft, and its role in fixing boundaries between aliens and kin--held strong symbolic value for writers struggling to reconcile faith with rationalism, and communal coherence with capitalist expansion. Mizruchi eloquently demonstrates how the conceptual power of sacrifice made it a key mediator of cultural change, from the decline of sympathy and the significance of "race" in an emerging multicultural society to the revival of maternal self-sacrifice.
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EAN (ISBN-13): 9780691068923
ISBN (ISBN-10): 0691068925
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Date de parution: 1998
Editeur: Princeton University Press
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ISBN/EAN: 9780691068923
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