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Books Without Borders: The Cross-national Dimension in Print Cultureby Robert Fraser , Mary HammondISBN 0230537596 (0-230-53759-6)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Chameleon Poet: A Life of George Barkerby Robert FraserISBN 0712691715 (0-7126-9171-5)
Softcover, Random House
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Collected Poemsby George Barker, Robert FraserISBN 0571139728 (0-571-13972-8)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Companion to Romance: From Classical To Contemporaryby George Barker, Robert FraserISBN 0631232710 (0-631-23271-0)
Hardcover, Blackwell Pub
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Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Masks: A Critical Viewby Robert Fraser , Yolande Cantù, Kamau BrathwaiteISBN 0003263436 (0-00-326343-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religionby James George Frazer, Robert FraserISBN 0192835416 (0-19-283541-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion'Book summary:Before Joseph Campbell became the world's most famous practitioner of comparative mythology, there was Sir James George Frazer. The Golden Bough was originally published in two volumes in 1890, but Frazer became so enamored of his topic that over the next few decades he expanded the work sixfold, then in 1922 cut it all down to a single thick edition suitable for mass distribution. The thesis on the origins of magic and religion that it elaborates "will be long and laborious," Frazer warns readers, "but may possess something of the charm of a voyage of discovery, in which we shall visit many strange lands, with strange foreign peoples, and still stranger customs." Chief among those customs--at least as the book is remembered in the popular imagination--is the sacrificial killing of god-kings to ensure bountiful harvests, which Frazer traces through several cultures, including in his elaborations the myths of Adonis, Osiris, and Balder.
While highly influential in its day, The Golden Bough has come under harsh critical scrutiny in subsequent decades, with many of its descriptions of regional folklore and legends deemed less than reliable. Furthermore, much of its tone is rooted in a philosophy of social Darwinism--sheer cultural imperialism, really--that finds its most explicit form in Frazer's rhetorical question: "If in the most backward state of human society now known to us we find magic thus conspicuously present and religion conspicuously absent, may we not reasonably conjecture that the civilised races of the world have also at some period of their history passed through a similar intellectual phase?" (The truly civilized races, he goes on to say later, though not particularly loudly, are the ones whose minds evolve beyond religious belief to embrace the rational structures of scientific thought.) Frazer was much too genteel to state plainly that "primitive" races believe in magic because they are too stupid and backwards to know any better; instead he remarks that "a savage hardly conceives the distinction commonly drawn by more advanced peoples between the natural and the supernatural." And he certainly was not about to make explicit the logical extension of his theories--"that Christian legend, dogma, and ritual" (to quote Robert Graves's summation of Frazer in The White Goddess) "are the refinement of a great body of primitive and barbarous beliefs." Whatever modern readers have come to think of the book, however, its historical significance and the eloquence with which Frazer attempts to develop what one might call a unifying theory of anthropology cannot be denied. --Ron Hogan [via]
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The Golden Bough: J.G.Frazer His Life and Work and the Making of the Golden Boughby Robert Fraser , Robert AckermanISBN 0333985850 (0-333-98585-0)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Making of the Golden Boughby Robert FraserISBN 0333986849 (0-333-98684-9)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan Limited
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The Making of the Golden Bough: The Origins and Growth of an Argumentby Robert FraserISBN 0312042051 (0-312-04205-1)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Novels of Ayi Kwei Armah: A Study in Polemical Fictionby Robert FraserISBN 0435913018 (0-435-91301-8)
Softcover, Heinemann
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Postcolonial Book History: Speech, Script and Print in World Culturesby Robert FraserISBN 0415402948 (0-415-40294-8)
Softcover, Routledge
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Privatization: The Uk Experience and International Trendsby Robert Fraser , Michael WilsonISBN 0582026253 (0-582-02625-3)
Hardcover, Longman
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Proust and the Victorians: The Lamp of Memoryby Robert FraserISBN 0312103646 (0-312-10364-6)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Proust and the Victorians: The Lamp of Memory'Book summary:In 1899 Marcel Proust read a translation of Ruskin's The Lamp of Memory in a Belgian magazine. Fourteen years later he back-projected the experience onto the narrator of Du cote de chez Swann who describes himself as a boy reading the self-same piece in the garden at Combray. In between lay a period of intermittent enthusiasm for Victorian writing: a period which saw the refurbishment of Proust's method and a fundamental rethinking of his views. Much of this reassessment was achieved in relation to English writers whom Proust adopted, absorbed and then as often as not discarded. The end result was to enable him to pass from one aesthetic to another.[via]
It is the contention of this book that the clue to this process can be found not only in Proust's evolving views on memory and time but also in his progression through a three-fold typology of form: from 'mimetic form' (art-imitating-the-real) through 'mnemonic form' (art-imitating-memory) to 'abstract form' (art-imitating-itself). The progress from one to another is illustrated through Proust's reactions to Carlyle, Darwin, Emerson, Ruskin, George Eliot, Hardy, Stevenson, Wells and Wilde. There is also a chapter on the connection in Proust's mind between literary and art criticism and his delayed response to the Ruskin-Whistler trial of 1878. A final chapter relates these matters to the current debate as to the parallel between the nineteenth century fin-de-siecle and our own.More editions of Proust and the Victorians: The Lamp of Memory:
Reading African Poetryby Robert FraserISBN 000321866X (0-00-321866-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Selected Poemsby George Barker, Robert FraserISBN 057117289X (0-571-17289-X)
Softcover, Faber & Faber, Limited
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Sir James Frazer and the Literary Imagination: Essays in Affinity and Influenceby Robert FraserISBN 0312053215 (0-312-05321-5)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Studies On The Gospels 1903by Vincent Rose, Robert FraserISBN 0548719500 (0-548-71950-0)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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This Island Placeby Robert FraserISBN 0245535691 (0-245-53569-1)
Softcover, Harrap Publishers, Larousse
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West African Poetry: A Critical Historyby Robert FraserISBN 052131223X (0-521-31223-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Western European Economic Organizations: A Comprehensive Guideby Robert Fraser , Christopher LongISBN 0582068452 (0-582-06845-2)
Hardcover, Gale Group
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The World Financial Systemby Robert FraserISBN 0582902789 (0-582-90278-9)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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World Trade Systems: Comprehensive Reference Guideby Robert FraserISBN 0582086965 (0-582-08696-5)
Hardcover, Gale / Cengage Learning
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