Sacrifice as a Narrative Strategy in May Sinclair, Mary Butts, and H. D.

Zusatztext

This book explores sacrifice as a narrative theme and a stylistic strategy in works by May Sinclair, Mary Butts and H. D. It argues that the modernist experiment with pronoun use informs the treatment of acts of sacrifice in the texts, understood both as acts of self-renunciation and as ritual performance. It also suggests that sacrifice, if the conditions are right, can serve as the structure upon which a cohesive community might be built. The book offers in-depth analyses of the three authors and their works, deftly dissecting the modernist narrative experiment to show that it was by no means limited it was a means by which to approach a wide range of stories and materials.

Autorenportrait

Sanna Melin Schyllert is Visiting Lecturer at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, France, having previously held posts at Lund University, the University of Westminster, and University College London. Her publications include Sacrifice, Pronoun Shifts and the Creation of Self in H. D.s Prose Works in The Space Between Journal (2019) and Sacrifice, Community and Narrative Power in Mary Buttss Taverner Novels in The Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture (2016).

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