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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... later events cast their shadows back over earlier ones. This lack of mental perspective, from which we all suffer, displays itself in the saying: “Call no man happy until he is dead,” which implies that a few hours or days of pain or ...
... later events cast their shadows back over earlier ones. This lack of mental perspective, from which we all suffer, displays itself in the saying: “Call no man happy until he is dead,” which implies that a few hours or days of pain or ...
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... later. The editor of the in which the letters are dated by their writers shows clearly that our ancestors were accustomed to measure the lapse of time by very different standards from those now in use. Whether men in general were ...
... later. The editor of the in which the letters are dated by their writers shows clearly that our ancestors were accustomed to measure the lapse of time by very different standards from those now in use. Whether men in general were ...
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... later had it come had come upon a to thunderbolt. be believed7 When, therefore, we attribute to the savage an interest in the past comparable to our interest in the history of England, we are attributing to him a taste which he could ...
... later had it come had come upon a to thunderbolt. be believed7 When, therefore, we attribute to the savage an interest in the past comparable to our interest in the history of England, we are attributing to him a taste which he could ...
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... later; here I may note cited), that,12 the according leading heroes to van Gennep (the writer whom I have just of French tradition are not Charlemagne and his successors on the throne, but Roland, Gargantua, and the Little Red Man. If ...
... later; here I may note cited), that,12 the according leading heroes to van Gennep (the writer whom I have just of French tradition are not Charlemagne and his successors on the throne, but Roland, Gargantua, and the Little Red Man. If ...
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... later of Sir Bors, and has recently been transferred to one Henry of Bodrugan, who took the wrong side at Bosworth. “The lapse of folk-memory,” he says, “is as characteristic as its tenacity. When I passed Athelney last year, a ...
... later of Sir Bors, and has recently been transferred to one Henry of Bodrugan, who took the wrong side at Bosworth. “The lapse of folk-memory,” he says, “is as characteristic as its tenacity. When I passed Athelney last year, a ...
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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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