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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... Queen Elizabeth and Shakespeare both lived then, he would find it difficult to believe you, since if Shakespeare were really connected with some ancient monarch, which since a play of his was performed quite recently seems highly ...
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... queen said to the king, or what passed between the conspirators? Very few indeed, and the fact that a rumor went ... queens, and heroes. Now, the stories of court life that get abroad today are always inaccurate and often quite untrue ...
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... Queen Elizabeth, when, in order to satisfy the new men, all of whom desired a Norman ancestry, “the pedigreemaker stuck at nothing; he forged documents, not only in Old Latin, but in heralds, Old English and Old French, and by whom they ...
... Queen Elizabeth, when, in order to satisfy the new men, all of whom desired a Norman ancestry, “the pedigreemaker stuck at nothing; he forged documents, not only in Old Latin, but in heralds, Old English and Old French, and by whom they ...
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... Queen must have taken when travelling from X to Y, it may well have been visited by her.” Stage II.—“This house is said to have been visited by Queen Elizabeth on her way from X to Y.” Stage III.—“The state bedroom is over the entrance ...
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... queen.34 is If to that say, is rites so, and attendant if our comparison is justified, then the story of the Sleeping Warriors is connected with a coronation ritual, a ritual intended to qualify the new king to impersonate the old king ...
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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
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