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The science of sacrifice :American literature and modern social theory
- 作者: Mizruchi, Susan L.
- 出版: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©1998.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (436 pages).
- 標題: American literature. , Sacrifice humain dans la littérature. , Rites and ceremonies in literature. , Social problems in literature. , Littérature et société , Self-sacrifice in literature. , American literature History and criticism. , Sacrifice dans la littérature. , Littérature et anthropologie , Realism in literature. , Literature and society , Riten. , Literature and society. , Bouc émissaire dans la littérature. , Rites et cérémonies dans la littérature. , Littérature américaine , History and criticism. , Littérature américaine Histoire et critique. , Problèmes sociaux dans la littérature. , Criticism, interpretation, etc. , Literature and anthropology. , Literature and society United States. , LITERARY CRITICISM American -- General. , Littérature et société États-Unis. , Opoffering. , LITERARY CRITICISM , Histoire et critique. , Electronic books. , Amerikaans. , Human sacrifice in literature. , Literature and anthropology , Littérature et anthropologie États-Unis. , Sociologie. , Sacrifice in literature. , AmericanGeneral. , Dévouement dans la littérature. , American literature , Zondebokken. , Bellettrie. , Réalisme dans la littérature. , United States. , Literature and anthropology United States. , Scapegoat in literature.
- ISBN: 0691015066 , 9780691015064
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-426) and index. Sacrificial arts and sciences -- The return to sacrifice in Melville and others -- Rites of passage in an "awkward age" -- Du Bois's gospel of sacrifice.
- 摘要: "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."--Jacket
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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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