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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... merely a prologue to the present, not merely without interest in so far as it is independent of the present, but simply inconceivable except in terms of the present. The events of our own past life are remembered, not as they seemed to ...
... merely a prologue to the present, not merely without interest in so far as it is independent of the present, but simply inconceivable except in terms of the present. The events of our own past life are remembered, not as they seemed to ...
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... merely benefit from the existence of books, but learn to understand something of the meaning and purpose of books and written records generally. In totally illiterate communities, however, such as still exist in central Africa or ...
... merely benefit from the existence of books, but learn to understand something of the meaning and purpose of books and written records generally. In totally illiterate communities, however, such as still exist in central Africa or ...
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... merely in the remoter past, but in the events of thirty years ago, and in my belief this is the case with illiterates in general, except in so far as their own personal exploits are Speaking concerned. of the Jukun of Nigeria, Dr. Meek9 ...
... merely in the remoter past, but in the events of thirty years ago, and in my belief this is the case with illiterates in general, except in so far as their own personal exploits are Speaking concerned. of the Jukun of Nigeria, Dr. Meek9 ...
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... merely the by-product of a system of drawing up elaborate calendars for the purposes Cook,13 “have of ritual. also “Religious and magical factors,” says Dr. S. A. been prominent in the rise of history-writing, and Mesopotamian ...
... merely the by-product of a system of drawing up elaborate calendars for the purposes Cook,13 “have of ritual. also “Religious and magical factors,” says Dr. S. A. been prominent in the rise of history-writing, and Mesopotamian ...
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... merely a collection of names and dates, connected by lines and mathematical signs. It is in fact, however, a series of potted biographies, and the lines and signs are too often employed to give a spurious appearance of mathematical ...
... merely a collection of names and dates, connected by lines and mathematical signs. It is in fact, however, a series of potted biographies, and the lines and signs are too often employed to give a spurious appearance of mathematical ...
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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