The Hero: A Study in Tradition, Myth and DramaCourier Corporation, 2013 M05 27 - 336 páginas His mother is a virgin and he's reputed to be the son of a god; he loses favor and is driven from his kingdom to a sorrowful death — sound familiar? In The Hero, Lord Raglan contends that the heroic figures from myth and legend are invested with a common pattern that satisfies the human desire for idealization. Raglan outlines 22 characteristic themes or motifs from the heroic tales and illustrates his theory with events from the lives of characters from Oedipus (21 out of a possible 22 points) to Robin Hood (a modest 13). A fascinating study that relates details from world literature with a lively wit and style, it was acclaimed by literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman as "a bold, speculative, and brilliantly convincing demonstration that myths are never historical but are fictional narratives derived from ritual dramas." This new edition of The Hero (which originally appeared some 13 years before Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces) is assured of a lasting popularity. This book will appeal to scholars of folklore and mythology, history, literature, and general readers as well. |
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... England, we are attributing to him a taste which he could not possibly possess, and which if he did possess he could not possibly gratify. The savage, again, has far less than we have to remind him of the past. There may be ancient ...
... England, we are attributing to him a taste which he could not possibly possess, and which if he did possess he could not possibly gratify. The savage, again, has far less than we have to remind him of the past. There may be ancient ...
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... England, and the inhabitants of those counties must be largely of Danish descent, yet, far from recognizing this descent, they regard the Danes as enemies who came to plunder and then sailed away. In the eleventh century a great part of ...
... England, and the inhabitants of those counties must be largely of Danish descent, yet, far from recognizing this descent, they regard the Danes as enemies who came to plunder and then sailed away. In the eleventh century a great part of ...
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... England no such thing as a genuinely traditional pedigree at all. It may be objected that the pedigree is not a narrative. As we are accustomed to see it, it is, of course, merely a collection of names and dates, connected by lines and ...
... England no such thing as a genuinely traditional pedigree at all. It may be objected that the pedigree is not a narrative. As we are accustomed to see it, it is, of course, merely a collection of names and dates, connected by lines and ...
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... England of Sir Walter Scott and his imitators bears no recognizable resemblance to the genuine article, and that our “traditional” pedigrees all contain blunders that mark them out as fictions of a later age. Many of the alleged ...
... England of Sir Walter Scott and his imitators bears no recognizable resemblance to the genuine article, and that our “traditional” pedigrees all contain blunders that mark them out as fictions of a later age. Many of the alleged ...
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... England was to build a stone castle. The early Norman castles, however, were wooden structures on a mound of earth, and stone castles were not, with one or two well-known exceptions, built until well on in the twelfth century. Even in ...
... England was to build a stone castle. The early Norman castles, however, were wooden structures on a mound of earth, and stone castles were not, with one or two well-known exceptions, built until well on in the twelfth century. Even in ...
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TRADITION II The Traditional Pedigree I The Basis of History III Local Tradition | |
Robin Hood VI King Arthur | |
The Norse Sagas | |
Hengist and Horsa | |
Cuchulainn | |
The Tale of Troy | |
Traditions of Other Lands | |
MYTH XI The Genesis of Myth | |
Myth and the Historic Hero | |
DRAMA XX The Basis of Drama | |
The Language of the Drama | |
Age and Time | |
Dress and Setting | |
Shapeshifting and Talking Animals | |
The Royal Hero | |
The Spielman XXVII The Ritual Drama | |
The Folktale | |
Myth and Ritual XIV Myth and Ritual continued | |
Myth and RitualThe Tale of Troy | |
The Hero XVII The Hero continued XVIII The Hero continued | |
Bibliography | |
Términos y frases comunes
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