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University of Southern Mississippi
Why I Killed the Draft Horse: The Golden Bough, Robert Frost, and "Progress"
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>The absence of criticism on Robert Frost's "The Draft Horse" suggests that it is a challenge to Frost scholarship. This reading views Frost's strange and neglected poem as a return to a monomyth offered by James Frazer's hugely influential <em>The Golden Bough</em>. In "The Draft Horse," Frost reconsiders the concept of ceremonial sacrifice that undergirds Frazer's encyclopedic study of world culture and, by performing ceremony as a kind of modem poesis, Frost complicates the hero/sacrificial object role and critiques the progressive ideology that grounds Frazer's account to fashion a troubling epic for modern America that implicates its national readers in a kind of savagery. </p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts (MA)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Masters Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English
- Year dc:date.available
- 2013
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Boyle, Eugene Charles McGregor, III
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Jonathan Barron
- Martina Sciolino
- Charles Sumner
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/409
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:aquila.usm.edu:masters_theses-1485