The Sacred Game: The Role of the Sacred in the Genesis of Modern Literary Fiction

by Cesareo Bandera

Book Overview

The first full-fledged application of the sacrificial model to fiction from the Middle Ages to the modern era.

Ces reo Bandera contends that we badly misjudge our own historical situation if we believe that the sacred is something that can be left behind or ignored as utterly irrelevant. The Sacred Game argues that the sacred is all around us and its most characteristic manifestation is precisely the "allergic" reaction and subsequent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271026049
• ISBN13: 9780271026046
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"