From Ritual to Romance, Jessie Weston
From Ritual to Romance, Jessie Weston
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From Ritual to Romance

Author: Jessie Weston

Narrator: Robert Frederick

Unabridged: 6 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/18/2024

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy


Synopsis

In the introductory Chapter the reader will find the aim and object of these studies set forth at length. In view of the importance and complexity of the problems involved it seemed better to incorporate such a statement in the book itself, rather than relegate it to a Preface which all might not trouble to read. Yet I feel that such a general statement does not adequately express my full debt of obligation. Among the many whose labour has been laid under contribution in the following pages there are certain scholars whose published work, or personal advice, has been specially illuminating, and to whom specific acknowledgment is therefore due. Like many others I owe to Sir J. G. Frazer the initial inspiration which set me, as I may truly say, on the road to the Grail Castle. Without the guidance of The Golden Bough I should probably, as the late M. Gaston Paris happily expressed it, still be wandering in the forest of Broceliande!

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jonathan on October 14, 2015

Complete rot. Gains an extra star simply for the great works of Modernism it engendered. Riddled with assumptions, huge leaps of "logic" and desperate attempts to make evidence fit her thesis.......more

Goodreads review by Dan on June 30, 2022

In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot in his Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola shows a copy of Weston's From Ritual to Romance next to a copy of Frazer's The Golden Bough. If you know something of the latter, that will tell you a lot about the former. Weston takes a Frazerian approach to the Grail r......more

Goodreads review by Emily Kestrel on December 21, 2021

I read this as an undergrad years and years ago and thought it was the bee’s knees. I have no idea what I would think of it today. I was talking about the weird books of yesteryear, like this one and Robert Graves’ The White Goddess and Margaret Murray etc., with my husband tonight, and remembered I......more

Goodreads review by Erik on November 16, 2014

Having already read Wolfram, Th Malory and Chretian, I was ready for some analysis. This book had been recommended by a popular professor at Grinnell College and was being much read about campus (along with, it might be added, Graves' The White Goddess). Weston did a great job in tying together the......more

Goodreads review by Frederic on March 20, 2011

Gonzo Grail interpretation but lots of fun.........more