Ritual, Myth and the Modernist Text

First Published in 1998. Volume 12 in the Library of Anthropology series. This text traces the influence of Jane Ellen Harrison, a brilliant classicist and one of the ''Cambridge Anthropologists'' on Jams Joyce, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf. Decade of critical over-emphasis on Sir James Frazer''s influence on modernism have obscured the more important contributions of Harrison, who explored the ...