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

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.

Draws on the works of key philosophers and narrative theorists, from Hegel, Nietzsche, Bataille to Girard Discusses the varied ideas on which the authors drew Foregrounds the connection between sacrifice and consciousness in modernist fiction

Autorentext

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 Butts s Taverner Novels in The Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture (2016).

Inhalt

Chapter 1- Sacrifice, Consciousness, and Narrative Pronoun Shifts.- Chapter 2- May Sinclair and Two Sides of Sacrifice.- Chapter 3 - From Ritual to Narrative in Mary Butts.- Chapter 4 - Mending a Broken Duality in H. D. (Hilda Doolittle).