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Record Nr.

UNINA9910760253303321

Autore

Schyllert Sanna Melin

Titolo

Sacrifice as a narrative strategy in May Sinclair, Mary Butts, and H. D. / / Sanna Melin Schyllert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

3031404238

9783031404238

9783031404221

303140422X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 112 pages)

Disciplina

820.9382034

Soggetti

Sacrifice in literature

English literature - 20th century - History and criticism

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Fiction

Poetry

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Narration (Rhetoric)

European literature

Fiction Literature

Poetry and Poetics

Twentieth-Century Literature

Narratology

European Literature

Literary criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Sacrifice, Consciousness, and Narrative Pronoun Shifts -- May Sinclair and Two Sides of Sacrifice -- From Ritual to Narrative in Mary Butts -- Mending a Broken Duality in H. D. (Hilda Doolittle).

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores sacrifice as a narrative theme and a stylistic



strategy in works by May Sinclair, Mary Butts and H. D. It argues that the modernist experiment with pronoun use informs the treatment of acts of sacrifice in the texts, understood both as acts of self-renunciation and as ritual performance. It also suggests that sacrifice, if the conditions are right, can serve as the structure upon which a cohesive community might be built. The book offers in-depth analyses of the three authors and their works, deftly dissecting the modernist narrative experiment to show that it was by no means limited — it was a means by which to approach a wide range of stories and materials. Sanna Melin Schyllert is Visiting Lecturer at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, France, having previously held posts at Lund University, the University of Westminster, and University College London. Her publications include ‘Sacrifice, Pronoun Shifts and the Creation of Selfin H. D.’s Prose Works’ in The Space Between Journal (2019) and ‘Sacrifice, Community and Narrative Power in Mary Butts’s Taverner Novels’ in The Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture (2016).