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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... never apply it to a story which they know to be historically untrue, however much “smoke” it may have emitted. Those who are convinced that Bunyan was an earnest and truthful man, who meant every word that he wrote, do not conclude that ...
... never apply it to a story which they know to be historically untrue, however much “smoke” it may have emitted. Those who are convinced that Bunyan was an earnest and truthful man, who meant every word that he wrote, do not conclude that ...
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... never historical, and examples were given purporting to prove the contrary. I should like to give one. A visitor to Tewkesbury Abbey was given what was practically a first-hand account of the battle, and on making enquiry was told that ...
... never historical, and examples were given purporting to prove the contrary. I should like to give one. A visitor to Tewkesbury Abbey was given what was practically a first-hand account of the battle, and on making enquiry was told that ...
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... never be recalled. It is not that the savage is mentally incapable of transmitting the events of the remote past, but that there is no inducement to transmit them, no machinery by which they can be transmitted, and a great deal of other ...
... never be recalled. It is not that the savage is mentally incapable of transmitting the events of the remote past, but that there is no inducement to transmit them, no machinery by which they can be transmitted, and a great deal of other ...
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... never to have recorded the victories of their predecessors. In the Egypt of Herodotus' time there seems to have been no corpus of recognized history at all. The discrepant tales that the priests told him were almost entirely mythical ...
... never to have recorded the victories of their predecessors. In the Egypt of Herodotus' time there seems to have been no corpus of recognized history at all. The discrepant tales that the priests told him were almost entirely mythical ...
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... never have recounted a story that would have exposed him to ridicule and lowered the prestige upon which to have his been success first attached depended. to King The story Alfred is in really the twelfth a myth, century. which seems15 ...
... never have recounted a story that would have exposed him to ridicule and lowered the prestige upon which to have his been success first attached depended. to King The story Alfred is in really the twelfth a myth, century. which seems15 ...
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TRADITION II The Traditional Pedigree I The Basis of History III Local Tradition | |
Robin Hood VI King Arthur | |
The Norse Sagas | |
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 | |
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