From Ritual to Romance
Title | From Ritual to Romance PDF eBook |
Author | Jessie Laidlay Weston |
Publisher | |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1920 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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Landmark of anthropological and mythological scholarship explores the connection between the legend of the Grail and ancient mystery cults. A major source for T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land."
From Ritual to Romance, by Jessie L. Weston,...
Title | From Ritual to Romance, by Jessie L. Weston,... PDF eBook |
Author | Jessie Laidlay Weston |
Publisher | |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 1920 |
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The Quest of the Holy Grail
Title | The Quest of the Holy Grail PDF eBook |
Author | Jessie Laidlay Weston |
Publisher | |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | Grail |
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The Legend of Sir Lancelot Du Lac
Title | The Legend of Sir Lancelot Du Lac PDF eBook |
Author | Jessie Laidlay Weston |
Publisher | |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | Arthurian romances |
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Modernism and Eugenics
Title | Modernism and Eugenics PDF eBook |
Author | Donald J. Childs |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2001-09-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521806015 |
In Modernism and Eugenics, first published in 2001, Donald Childs shows how Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot and W. B. Yeats believed in eugenics, the science of race improvement and adapted this scientific discourse to the language and purposes of the modern imagination. Childs traces the impact of the eugenics movement on such modernist works as Mrs Dalloway, A Room of One's Own, The Waste Land and Yeats's late poetry and early plays. The language of eugenics moves, he claims, between public discourse and personal perspectives. It informs Woolf's theorization of woman's imagination; in Eliot's poetry, it pictures as a nightmare the myriad contemporary eugenical threats to humankind's biological and cultural future. And for Yeats, it becomes integral to his engagement with the occult and his commitment to Irish Nationalism. This is an interesting study of a controversial theme which reveals the centrality of eugenics in the life and work of several major modernist writers.
Axël
Title | Axël PDF eBook |
Author | Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam |
Publisher | |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 1900 |
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The Waste Land
Title | The Waste Land PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Acland |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009-09 |
Genre | Crusades |
ISBN | 9780956147202 |
'The Waste Land' chronicles the adventures of Hugh de Verdon, monk turned knight, during the extraordinary historical events of the First Crusade.