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Book SynopsisFrazer, with Freud, Marx, and Jung, is one of the thinkers who have had a deep and pervasive influence on modern literature. One of the great nineteenth-century syntheses, The Golden Bough was the culmination of a century of investigations into myth and ritual. John Vickery locates The Golden Bough in the context of its age and shows how, by gather
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. v*Contents, pg. ix*CHAPTER I. The Golden Bough and the Nineteenth- Century Milieu, pg. 1*CHAPTER II. The Controlling Ideas of The Golden Bough, pg. 38*CHAPTER III. The Intellectual Influence of The Golden Bough, pg. 68*CHAPTER IV. The Golden Bough: Impact and Archetype, pg. 106*CHAPTER V. The Literary Uses of The Golden Bough, pg. 139*CHAPTER VI. William Butler Yeats: The Tragic Hero as Dying God, pg. 179*CHAPTER VII. T. S. Eliot: The Anthropology of Religious Consciousness, pg. 233*CHAPTER VIII. D. ETA. Lawrence: The Evidence of the Poetry, pg. 280*CHAPTER IX. D. H. Lawrence: The Mythic Elements, pg. 294*CHAPTER X. James Joyce: From the Beginnings to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, pg. 326*CHAPTER XI. James Joyce: Ulysses and the Anthropological Reality, pg. 346*CHAPTER XII. James Joyce: Ulysses and the Artist as Dying God, pg. 358*CHAPTER XIII. James Joyce: Ulysses and the Human Scapegoat, pg. 381*CHAPTER XIV. James Joyce: Finnegans Wake and the Rituals of Mortality, pg. 408*Index, pg. 425
