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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... Romans in Britain. He looked rather puzzled, and asked: “Were you there then, Daddy?” When we read of the Irish blacksmith who said that his smithy was much older than the local dolmen; it was there in his grandfather's time, and he ...
... Romans in Britain. He looked rather puzzled, and asked: “Were you there then, Daddy?” When we read of the Irish blacksmith who said that his smithy was much older than the local dolmen; it was there in his grandfather's time, and he ...
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... Roman Emperor of the him as East—became their ancestor and so famous made him that the the son East of Woden. Anglian 15 kings adopted Nor can we trust the Icelandic pedigrees. The Landnamabok professes of the early to settlers, give an ...
... Roman Emperor of the him as East—became their ancestor and so famous made him that the the son East of Woden. Anglian 15 kings adopted Nor can we trust the Icelandic pedigrees. The Landnamabok professes of the early to settlers, give an ...
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... Roman signal mound. There seems to be no doubt whatever that the mound is not older than the eleventh century, or the story of its Roman origin than the nineteenth, but nevertheless the latter has become a well-attested local tradition ...
... Roman signal mound. There seems to be no doubt whatever that the mound is not older than the eleventh century, or the story of its Roman origin than the nineteenth, but nevertheless the latter has become a well-attested local tradition ...
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... Roman campaigns against the Silures. Wherever such stories are told and can be checked, they prove to be fictitious. A bed in Cardiganshire, traditionally that in which King Henry VII slept on his way to Bosworth Field, proved to be of ...
... Roman campaigns against the Silures. Wherever such stories are told and can be checked, they prove to be fictitious. A bed in Cardiganshire, traditionally that in which King Henry VII slept on his way to Bosworth Field, proved to be of ...
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... Roman Wall by Spanish soldiers in the Roman army, but which was in fact introduced by a nineteenthcentury vicar. It is not only local historians who make guesses. Sir Laurence Gomme says that “perhaps the 'White Horse Stone' at ...
... Roman Wall by Spanish soldiers in the Roman army, but which was in fact introduced by a nineteenthcentury vicar. It is not only local historians who make guesses. Sir Laurence Gomme says that “perhaps the 'White Horse Stone' at ...
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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