The Redemptive Sacrifice in J. Gardner’s Novel Grendel: An Analysis of the Novel’s Poetics in Light of Ritual-Mythological Criticism
The paper presents an analysis of the novel Grendel (1971) by American writer J. Gardner (1933–1982) in light of M. Eliade’s, R. Girard’s and V. Toporov’s concepts of myth and ritual studies. Literary studies concerning the ritual-mythological aspect of the novel are reviewed in the article. The res...
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Russian Academy of Sciences, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature
2021-05-01
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| Series: | Литература двух Америк |
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| Online Access: | http://litda.ru/images/2021-10/LDA-2021-10_83-99_Kalashnikov.pdf |