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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... evidence alone. As regards modern stories, all this would no doubt be generally agreed, but towards ancient stories a totally different attitude is commonly adopted. It is at least possible that Homer, though he meant all that he said ...
... evidence alone. As regards modern stories, all this would no doubt be generally agreed, but towards ancient stories a totally different attitude is commonly adopted. It is at least possible that Homer, though he meant all that he said ...
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... evidence of Chaucer we should have good reason to believe that our ancestors of the Middle Ages were liable to the same kind of absurdity. To the folk, it might almost be said, 'a thousand years are but as yesterday.'” These plays are ...
... evidence of Chaucer we should have good reason to believe that our ancestors of the Middle Ages were liable to the same kind of absurdity. To the folk, it might almost be said, 'a thousand years are but as yesterday.'” These plays are ...
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... evidence that before his time the idea of history had ever occurred to anyone. The history of Herodotus was defective because his materials were inadequate. Let us now consider what the materials of history are. In the first class we ...
... evidence that before his time the idea of history had ever occurred to anyone. The history of Herodotus was defective because his materials were inadequate. Let us now consider what the materials of history are. In the first class we ...
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... evidence, press reports, news-letters, and other forms of contemporary correspondence. These would not be accepted as evidence in a court of law, but are often very properly accepted by the court of history. In a fifth class we may ...
... evidence, press reports, news-letters, and other forms of contemporary correspondence. These would not be accepted as evidence in a court of law, but are often very properly accepted by the court of history. In a fifth class we may ...
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... evidence or even demonstrably untrue. There are, of course, many genuinely old pedigrees; these are always based on contemporary records, and get progressively fewer as we go farther back. There are one or two probably genuine pedigrees ...
... evidence or even demonstrably untrue. There are, of course, many genuinely old pedigrees; these are always based on contemporary records, and get progressively fewer as we go farther back. There are one or two probably genuine pedigrees ...
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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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