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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... Pedigree” in the National Review for December 1933. The greater part of Chapters XV and XVI were given as a paper to the Folklore Society, and printed in Folk-Lore for October 1934. A series of articles, embodying much of the material ...
... Pedigree” in the National Review for December 1933. The greater part of Chapters XV and XVI were given as a paper to the Folklore Society, and printed in Folk-Lore for October 1934. A series of articles, embodying much of the material ...
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... Pedigree Local Tradition Robin Hood V The Norse Sagas King Arthur Hengist and Horsa Cuchulainn The Tale of Troy X Traditions of Other Lands PART II: MYTH The Genesis of Myth The Folk-tale Myth and Ritual Myth and Ritual (continued) Myth ...
... Pedigree Local Tradition Robin Hood V The Norse Sagas King Arthur Hengist and Horsa Cuchulainn The Tale of Troy X Traditions of Other Lands PART II: MYTH The Genesis of Myth The Folk-tale Myth and Ritual Myth and Ritual (continued) Myth ...
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... PEDIGREE There are two forms of. 1 Folk-Lore, xlv, p. 233. 2 R. W. Chambers: England before the Norman Conquest, p. 69. 3 Paston Letters, ed. J. Gairdner, vol. i, p. ccclxv. 4 A. H. F. Strangways: Cecil Sharp, p. 51. 5 E. K. Chambers ...
... PEDIGREE There are two forms of. 1 Folk-Lore, xlv, p. 233. 2 R. W. Chambers: England before the Norman Conquest, p. 69. 3 Paston Letters, ed. J. Gairdner, vol. i, p. ccclxv. 4 A. H. F. Strangways: Cecil Sharp, p. 51. 5 E. K. Chambers ...
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... pedigrees; these are always based on contemporary records, and get progressively fewer as we go farther back. There are one or two probably genuine pedigrees that go back to the eleventh century, but none that go back to the period of ...
... pedigrees; these are always based on contemporary records, and get progressively fewer as we go farther back. There are one or two probably genuine pedigrees that go back to the eleventh century, but none that go back to the period of ...
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... pedigrees all contain blunders that mark them out as fictions of a later age. Many of the alleged ancestors occupied positions that would involve their mention in Domesday, which omits to mention them, or held manors that are known to ...
... pedigrees all contain blunders that mark them out as fictions of a later age. Many of the alleged ancestors occupied positions that would involve their mention in Domesday, which omits to mention them, or held manors that are known to ...
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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 | |
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