Ritual Unbound: Reading Sacrifice in Modernist Fiction

Though authors of modernist fiction place their protagonists in a reasonably plausible story not overtly related to primitive ritual, says Cousineau (English, Washington College, Maryland), they sometimes introduce incongruous details that disturb the realistic surface and reveal a mythic substrata. He examines five novels. Distributed by Associated University Presses. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR