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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... Norman Conquest, p. 69. 3 Paston Letters, ed. J. Gairdner, vol. i, p. ccclxv. 4 A. H. F. Strangways: Cecil Sharp, p. 51. 5 E. K. Chambers: The English Folk-play, p. 83. 6 R. J. E. Tiddy: The Mummers' Play, p. 93. 7 A. B. Cook: Zeus, vol ...
... Norman Conquest, p. 69. 3 Paston Letters, ed. J. Gairdner, vol. i, p. ccclxv. 4 A. H. F. Strangways: Cecil Sharp, p. 51. 5 E. K. Chambers: The English Folk-play, p. 83. 6 R. J. E. Tiddy: The Mummers' Play, p. 93. 7 A. B. Cook: Zeus, vol ...
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... Norman Conquest. The names of very few of the Normans who fought at Hastings and still fewer of the Saxons have been preserved, and of these hardly any of the former and none of the latter are known to have left descendants. There is no ...
... Norman Conquest. The names of very few of the Normans who fought at Hastings and still fewer of the Saxons have been preserved, and of these hardly any of the former and none of the latter are known to have left descendants. There is no ...
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... Norman period. As a result they were able to throw much light upon some of the darker aspects of our history, and incidentally to show that the Norman England of Sir Walter Scott and his imitators bears no recognizable resemblance to ...
... Norman period. As a result they were able to throw much light upon some of the darker aspects of our history, and incidentally to show that the Norman England of Sir Walter Scott and his imitators bears no recognizable resemblance to ...
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... Normans or Saxons. The range of Norman names was not wide; no Norman was ever called Hildebrand, the alleged Norman ancestor of the Alingtons, and such names as Titus and Theophilus, which appear at the head of some “Norman” pedigrees ...
... Normans or Saxons. The range of Norman names was not wide; no Norman was ever called Hildebrand, the alleged Norman ancestor of the Alingtons, and such names as Titus and Theophilus, which appear at the head of some “Norman” pedigrees ...
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... Norman ancestor” was apt to be before his time. Usually the first thing he did after settling 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 ...
... Norman ancestor” was apt to be before his time. Usually the first thing he did after settling 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 ...
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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 | |
Index | |
Términos y frases comunes
alleged ancestor ancient animals Arthur ballads battle believe Celtic century ceremony Chambers CHAPTER characters Chronicle connected Conquest Cuchulainn death derived E. K. Chambers England epic euhemerists evidence fairy-tales Falstaff father festival fiction fight folk-tale Folklore gods Greece Greek H. M. Chadwick Heracles hero of tradition hero’s historical facts Homer Ibid idea Iliad illiterate imagination incidents Irish J. G. Frazer killed king’s kingship Koht L. R. Farnell later legend lived magic marries Medb merely miracles Myth and Ritual mythical mythology Nennius never Norman Odysseus origin pedigrees performed person play poems princes probably Professor Queen reaching manhood records regarded reign religion religious represented rites ritual drama Robin Hood Roman royal sacred savage Saxons says scholars seems single combat story suggest supernatural supposed Tale of Troy tells theory throne told traditional narrative victory Volsunga Saga writers Zeus