Sir James George Frazer

MR based her book on the outline from Plutarch 's Life of Theseus. However, the novel also enters into scholarly debates about the origins of Mycenaean culture by portraying the replacement of a matriarchal...

Notes she made for this novel include quotations from Sir James Frazer 's The Golden Bough (about male fear of women's power) and from the scientist Metchnikoff about the disharmony represented by human sexual functions.

Again Spark had researched for this novel, which draws on ancient Roman history and Sir James Frazer 's The Golden Bough. Work had been interrupted by her mother's death. The manuscript consisted of small...

While highly innovative and thus sometimes controversial, JEH 's work was supported, as well as challenged, by a wide range of scholarly and critical sources. At Cambridge, she collaborated with colleagues including William Ridgeway ,...

Miranda Seymour (who has published a life of Graves and a novel based on an incident in his life and Riding's) does not believe this story of indebtedness, and nor does Riding's biographer Friedmann...

The lecture series was launched by distinguished supporters including J. G. Frazer , Sir Arthur Evans , Roger Fry , and Virginia and Leonard Woolf .

The plot of this book is fairly conventional. Its hero is born to poverty and goat-herding on the undeveloped island of Gont. He is named Duny. His siblings are much older, his mother dies early...

Departing from studies of the vegetation spirit undertaken by such scholars as J. G. Frazer and Wilhelm Mannhardt , Harrison argues for the significance of the year spirit as the embodiment not of the formal...

As the major influences on her in anthropological theory MK cites Charles Darwin , Edward Burnett Tylor 's Primitive Culture, and A. B. Ellis 's The Tshi Speaking, Ewe Speaking, and Yoruba Speaking Peoples...