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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... legend had seen in real life anything like what the legend describes, and if they had not seen it, how could they preserve a vivid recollection of it? Such terms seem to me to be quite meaningless; a memory is an individual possession ...
... legend had seen in real life anything like what the legend describes, and if they had not seen it, how could they preserve a vivid recollection of it? Such terms seem to me to be quite meaningless; a memory is an individual possession ...
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... legend of a common ancestry is pure invention to promote a feeling of solidarity or in some cases to explain the fact that the group is an exogamous unit.” The Nuers and Dinkas are Nilotic tribes of the Sudan, and Dr. Evans-Pritchard ...
... legend of a common ancestry is pure invention to promote a feeling of solidarity or in some cases to explain the fact that the group is an exogamous unit.” The Nuers and Dinkas are Nilotic tribes of the Sudan, and Dr. Evans-Pritchard ...
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... legend which cannon, tells defeated how the the Catholic Lutheran Charlemagne,Swedes.9 with the aid of a big iron Local tradition is not merely anachronistic. Miss M. E. Durham tells me that on Highgate Hill there is a stone at which ...
... legend which cannon, tells defeated how the the Catholic Lutheran Charlemagne,Swedes.9 with the aid of a big iron Local tradition is not merely anachronistic. Miss M. E. Durham tells me that on Highgate Hill there is a stone at which ...
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... legend of which is that one who rode a beast of this description great battle was at Crayford, killed at where or about Horsa this was spot, killed.” may take16 We us may back believe to the that Horsa never died, since he never lived ...
... legend of which is that one who rode a beast of this description great battle was at Crayford, killed at where or about Horsa this was spot, killed.” may take16 We us may back believe to the that Horsa never died, since he never lived ...
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... legend substituting which a dog told for how a man, the 25 inhabitants identified had Kill-hart cheated with the Gelert. Devil The by story thus started was reinforced by the enterprise of an innkeeper, who about 1830 set up a tombstone ...
... legend substituting which a dog told for how a man, the 25 inhabitants identified had Kill-hart cheated with the Gelert. Devil The by story thus started was reinforced by the enterprise of an innkeeper, who about 1830 set up a tombstone ...
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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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