Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-153) and index.
Contents
1. Introduction to critical models: Sacrificial model -- Sacrifice desacralized -- Argument -- 2. Victim and communion: Prometheus: the paradigm -- Masse mensch: violence discovered and evaluated -- Weapons of happiness: back from total violence -- 3. Victim and catharsis: Oedipus: the paradigm -- Andorra: the scapegoat variation -- Prophets: catharsis complete -- 4. Sacrificial violence as dramatic convention in the Oresteia: crisis, event, ritual -- 5. Executioner and redemption: Orestes: the paradigm -- Die massnahme: a modern sacrality -- Les justes: a secular salvation -- 6. Executioner and pollution: Clytemnestra: the paradigm -- Serjeant Musgrave's dance: the priest adrift -- Ce formidable bordel!: the priest irrelevant.
