Culture and Sacrifice: Ritual Death in Literature and Opera Hughes Derek
Culture and Sacrifice: Ritual Death in Literature and Opera Hughes Derek Human sacrifice has fascinated Western writers since the beginnings of European literature. It has been treated by some of the…
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Culture and Sacrifice: Ritual Death in Literature and Opera Hughes Derek
Human sacrifice has fascinated Western writers since the beginnings of European literature. 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. It is prominent in Greek epic and tragedy, and returned to haunt writers after the discovery of the Aztec mass sacrifices.
In literature, human sacrifice is often used to express a writer's reaction to the residue of barbarism in his own culture. Lawrence and Stravinsky. 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