The Science of Sacrifice : : American Literature and Modern Social Theory / / Susan L. Mizruchi.
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 an...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1998] ©1998 |
| Publicatiejaar: | 1998 |
| Editie: | Course Book |
| Taal: | English |
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| Fysieke beschrijving: | 1 online resource (496 p.) :; 1 halftone |
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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- CHAPTER ONE: Sacrificial Arts and Sciences
- CHAPTER TWO: The Return to Sacrifice in Melville and Others
- CHAPTER THREE: Rites of Passage in an "Awkward Age"
- CHAPTER FOUR: Du Bois's Gospel of Sacrifice
- Afterword
- Notes
- Index