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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... Saxons of the Settlement had conceptions of chronology which were quite foreign to Paston their Letters descendants tells us even3 that a “the thousand mode years later. The editor of the in which the letters are dated by their writers ...
... Saxons of the Settlement had conceptions of chronology which were quite foreign to Paston their Letters descendants tells us even3 that a “the thousand mode years later. The editor of the in which the letters are dated by their writers ...
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... Saxons have been preserved, and of these hardly any of the former and none of the latter are known to have left ... Saxon ancestry do not trouble about contemporary records; they rely upon what they call tradition, and maintain that ...
... Saxons have been preserved, and of these hardly any of the former and none of the latter are known to have left ... Saxon ancestry do not trouble about contemporary records; they rely upon what they call tradition, and maintain that ...
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... Saxon nomenclature can condemn most “traditional” pedigrees at a glance. Let us start with the Saxons, and note without surprise that they were called by Saxon names. Examples of such names can be found in any history—Godwin, Stigand ...
... Saxon nomenclature can condemn most “traditional” pedigrees at a glance. Let us start with the Saxons, and note without surprise that they were called by Saxon names. Examples of such names can be found in any history—Godwin, Stigand ...
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... 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, are equally ...
... 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, are equally ...
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... Saxon hero Hereward the Wake. The facts appear to be as follows: in 1166 a Norman named Hugh Wac came over from Normandy, and married the heiress of the Norman FitzGilbert, lord of Bourne in Lincolnshire. About two hundred years later ...
... Saxon hero Hereward the Wake. The facts appear to be as follows: in 1166 a Norman named Hugh Wac came over from Normandy, and married the heiress of the Norman FitzGilbert, lord of Bourne in Lincolnshire. About two hundred years later ...
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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
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