Author: HUGHES, D.,
Title: Culture and Sacrifice. Ritual Death in Literature and Opera.
Description: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (...), 2007. XI,313p. ills. (B&W photographs). Cloth wrps. 'Culture and Sacrifice is a marvellous work of scholarship: ambitious, disquieting and profound in its historical and philosophical ramifications. Like a sort of postmodern Sir James Frazer, Hughes explores ritualized human sacrifice across an astonishingly diverse array of literary, artistic and musical works, taking in everyone from the Greeks and Goethe to Wagner and Thomas Mann. The story he tells is a disturbing, even appalling one - a veritable feast at the House of Atreus. But you cannot finish the book without a new and vastly deepened understanding of sacrifice's primal, ferocious, strangely productive role in human art and culture.' (TERRY CASTLE).

Keywords: 9780521867337