The Scapegoat: Ritual and Literature

by John B. Vickery (Editor)

The scapegoat and his Sir J. The scapegoat. The transference of evil. The omnipresence of demons. Public scapegoats. On scapegoats in general. Human scapegoats in classical antiquity. The day of atonement, by E. O. James. The scapegoat king, by J. Bronowski. The scapegoat psychology, by E. Neumann.--The scapegoat in The Bacchae, by Euripides. Euripides’ "Bacchae" and the ritual pattern of tragedy, by G. Murray. My kinsman, Major Molineux, by N. Hawthorne. Yankee bumpkin and scapegoat king, by D. Hoffman. England, my England, by D. H. Lawrence. Myth and ritual in "England, my England", by J. B. Vickery. Dry September, by W. Faulkner. Ritual and theme in Faulkner’s "Dry September", by J. B. Vickery. The scapegoat, by V. S. Pritchett. Ritual in the streets; a study of Pritchett’s "The scapegoat", by J. M. Sellery and J. B. Vickery. The lottery, by S. Jackson. Going to meet the man, by J. Baldwin. The scapegoat, by A. Strindberg. Literary works for further study (p. 385-386)

386 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1971