Selected Letters of Sir J. G. Frazer

Zusatztext No one more competent than Ackerman, the lauded biographer of Frazer (1987), could have edited these letters with such skill and familiarity. The accurate transcriptions are uncensored. A highly informative, lucidly written, introduction illuminates their intellectual context. A selective biographical list of correspondents is welcome... In short required reading for any competent historian of religion. Informationen zum Autor Robert Ackerman was formerly Director of Liberal Arts at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Klappentext An edition of selected letters by (and in some cases to) Sir J. G. Frazer (1854-1941), the eminent anthropologist and historian of religion, and author of The Golden Bough. It offers an invaluable insight into British intellectual life at the turn of the century, and also illuminates the composition, and reception, of The Golden Bough itself. Zusammenfassung This is a fully annotated edition of selected letters by (and in some cases to) Sir J. G. Frazer (1854-1941), the eminent anthropologist, classicist, and historian of religion. Frazer was read by virtually everyone working in those fields in the first third of the twentieth century. His great work, The Golden Bough, offered a grand vision of humanity's mental and spiritual evolution - from vain attempts to compel the gods to do our bidding (which Frazer called magic) through equally vain attempts to propitiate the gods through prayer and sacrifice (his characterization of religion) to rationality and science. His richly varied correspondence with prominent figures such as Edmund Gosse, A. E. Housman, and Bronislaw Malinowski, among others, offers an unparalleled insight into British intellectual life of the time, and also throws light upon the composition of The Golden Bough itself. Inhaltsverzeichnis General Introduction I. Before The Golden Bough, 1878-90. Letters II. Anthropology and the Classics, 1890-1900. Letters III. The Third Editior, 1900-15. Letters IV. After The Golden Bough, 1916-31. Letters ...

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• Authors: Robert Ackerman, Robert (Formerly Director of Liberal Art Ackerman, J G Frazer, J. G. Frazer, James George Frazer, James George Sir Frazer
• Assisted by: Robert Ackerman (Editor), Ackerman Robert (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2005
• EAN: 9780199266968
• ISBN: 978-0-19-926696-8
• No. of pages: 436
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Folklore, myths & legends, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Diaries, letters and journals, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)