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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... historical facts? It cannot be with the sole object of studying and transmitting historical facts. Educated people study history for a variety of reasons—because they hope to find in it an explanation of the present and an indication of ...
... historical facts? It cannot be with the sole object of studying and transmitting historical facts. Educated people study history for a variety of reasons—because they hope to find in it an explanation of the present and an indication of ...
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... facts to memory, nor any possible machinery for transmitting them, and he ... history,” says Mr. Fox writers. Strangways; “The4 folk have no sense of ... historic sense . . . cannot be passed.
... facts to memory, nor any possible machinery for transmitting them, and he ... history,” says Mr. Fox writers. Strangways; “The4 folk have no sense of ... historic sense . . . cannot be passed.
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... history depends upon written chronology, and the savage has no written chronology, the savage can have no history. And ... facts are soon forgotten. In the Neolithic Age polished stone axes were made by the thousand, but soon after they ...
... history depends upon written chronology, and the savage has no written chronology, the savage can have no history. And ... facts are soon forgotten. In the Neolithic Age polished stone axes were made by the thousand, but soon after they ...
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... facts of his career, and that songs ten about years him earlier which it was had once difficult such to a find ... historical events. They tell of the journeys and victories of heroes, and with some rationalization and rearrangement these ...
... facts of his career, and that songs ten about years him earlier which it was had once difficult such to a find ... historical events. They tell of the journeys and victories of heroes, and with some rationalization and rearrangement these ...
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... facts. Nobody would accept a fact on fourth-hand evidence alone, yet that is what tradition, supposing it to be historical, is at best. “But,” it may be said, “tradition is quite different. “You are speaking of events which are known ...
... facts. Nobody would accept a fact on fourth-hand evidence alone, yet that is what tradition, supposing it to be historical, is at best. “But,” it may be said, “tradition is quite different. “You are speaking of events which are known ...
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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