The scapegoat: ritual and literature. Edited by John B. Vickery [and] J'nan M. Sellery.

Includes bibliographical references.

The scapegoat and his rituals: Sir J. Frazer: The scapegoat. The transference of evil. The omnipresence of demons. Public scapegoats. On scapegoats in general. Human scapegoats in classical antiquity. The day of atonement, by E. O. James. The scapegoat king, by J. Bronowski. The scapegoat psychology, by E. Neumann.--The scapegoat in literature: The Bacchae, by Euripides. Euripides' "Bacchae" and the ritual pattern of tragedy, by G. Murray. My kinsman, Major Molineux, by N. Hawthorne. Yankee bumpkin and scapegoat king, by D. Hoffman. England, my England, by D. H. Lawrence. Myth and ritual in "England, my England", by J. B. Vickery. Dry September, by W. Faulkner. Ritual and theme in Faulkner's "Dry September", by J. B. Vickery. The scapegoat, by V. S. Pritchett. Ritual in the streets; a study of Pritchett's "The scapegoat", by J. M. Sellery and J. B. Vickery. The lottery, by S. Jackson. Going to meet the man, by J. Baldwin. The scapegoat, by A. Strindberg. Literary works for further study (p. 385-386)