Literature and Sport as Ritual and Fantasy.

Papers on Language & Literature | September 22, 2001| | Copyright

In From Ritual to Romance, first published in 1920 and an important source for T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Jessie L. Weston pointed to the evolution of literature from previous rituals that gave rise to the form of the romance. Pursuing convergent interests to those in Sir James Frazer's analysis of primitive religion and ritual contained in The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion (1922), she found that the "quest of the grail" was based on various myths and cults--the principal one being the triumph of the life-giving deity and the restoration of the land to health ...

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