Derek Hughes

Culture and Sacrifice

Ritual Death in Literature and Opera

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Produktbeschreibung

Derek Hughes examines the representation of human sacrifice in Western culture from The Iliad to the invasion of Iraq.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 565g
• ISBN-13: 9781107402911
• ISBN-10: 1107402913
• Artikelnr.: 33622892

Autorenporträt

Derek Hughes emigrated from England in November of 1961 with his wife Marion when they were both in their twenties. He became CEO of Western World Insurance Group after a long career in the industry. His 2006 book "Absolute Beginnings" documents the early history of the company.For several years Derek and Marion lived in Ramsey, New Jersey where the company was based.Following his retirement in 1994, the two then moved to midtown Manhattan. Marion passed away in 1997. Derek has three children, Robin, Adam, and Jennifer, and five grandchildren. He now lives in Washington, Connecticut with Helen, his wife of 23 years.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Human sacrifice, ancient and modern
2. Greece
3. Virgil to Augustine
4. The discovery of America
5. Shakespeare and the economics of sacrifice
6. Britain and America: Dryden, Behn, and Defoe
7. Lieto Fine: Baroque and Enlightenment sacrifice
8. The French Revolution to Napoleon
9. The secularization of sacrifice
10. Gothic sacrifice
11. Wagner
12. The second coming of Dionysius
13. Pentheus 1913
14. Sparagmos
15. Hitler and after
Bibliography.