Abstract
This paper traces Jane Harrison's study of Russian language, literature and culture to the shift in her understanding of primitive religion, from her adumbration of the theories Henri Bergson and Emile Durkheim in Themis (1912) to the translation of Aleksei Remizov's Russian animal tales in The Book of the Bear (1926). Formulated during the Great War, Harrison's theory regarding consciousness, language, and totemism postulated Russia as an antidote to the excesses of rationalism (often associated, in her writings, with Germany).
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