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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... religious and not in a historical sense. It is at least possible that the saga-writers, like Dickens, may have collected sayings and incidents from a variety of sources and attached them to persons who never existed. It is at least ...
... religious and not in a historical sense. It is at least possible that the saga-writers, like Dickens, may have collected sayings and incidents from a variety of sources and attached them to persons who never existed. It is at least ...
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... Monmouth and President of the Royal Anthropological Institute. In addition to The Hero, he is the author of Jocasta's Crime, The Science of Peace, How Came Civilization, Death and Rebirth, and The Origins of Religion. PART ONE Tradition.
... Monmouth and President of the Royal Anthropological Institute. In addition to The Hero, he is the author of Jocasta's Crime, The Science of Peace, How Came Civilization, Death and Rebirth, and The Origins of Religion. PART ONE Tradition.
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... religious works contain historical references; because they get a living by it; because for these and possibly for other reasons some knowledge of history has come to be regarded as part of the mental equipment of an educated person ...
... religious works contain historical references; because they get a living by it; because for these and possibly for other reasons some knowledge of history has come to be regarded as part of the mental equipment of an educated person ...
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... Religious and magical factors,” says Dr. S. A. been prominent in the rise of history-writing, and Mesopotamian astrological tablets record, for the warning of all concerned, portents, signs, catastrophes.” Kings may have recorded their ...
... Religious and magical factors,” says Dr. S. A. been prominent in the rise of history-writing, and Mesopotamian astrological tablets record, for the warning of all concerned, portents, signs, catastrophes.” Kings may have recorded their ...
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... religion and patriotism; of custom and tradition; of family pride and individual vanity; and of euhemerism and rationalization; not to mention the popular love of the marvellous and the romantic. On the other side are only the puny and ...
... religion and patriotism; of custom and tradition; of family pride and individual vanity; and of euhemerism and rationalization; not to mention the popular love of the marvellous and the romantic. On the other side are only the puny and ...
Contenido
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