Culture and Sacrifice: Ritual Death in Literature and Opera

Hughes, Derek

ISBN 10: 0521867339 / ISBN 13: 9780521867337

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Culture and Sacrifice: Ritual Death in Literature and Opera
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521867339
• ISBN 13: 9780521867337
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

Human sacrifice has fascinated Western writers since the beginnings of European literature. It is prominent in Greek epic and tragedy, and returned to haunt writers after the discovery of the Aztec mass sacrifices. It has been treated by some of the greatest creative geniuses, including Shakespeare and Wagner, and was a major topic in the works of many Modernists, such as D. H. Lawrence and Stravinsky. In literature, human sacrifice is often used to express a writer's reaction to the residue of barbarism in his own culture. The meaning attached to the theme therefore changes profoundly from one period to another, yet it remains as timely an image of cultural collapse as it did over two thousand years ago. Drawing on sources from literature and music, in this 2007 book Derek Hughes examines the representation of human sacrifice in Western culture from The Iliad to the invasion of Iraq.

Book Description

Human sacrifice has fascinated Western writers since the beginnings of European literature. Drawing on sources from literature and music, in this 2007 book Derek Hughes examines the representation of human sacrifice in Western culture from The Iliad to the invasion of Iraq.