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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... seems that much of it is now being studied more intensively in the United States than in the countries of its origin. The idea that the story of Leif the Lucky is a fable based on Irish mythology may come as a shock to some readers, but ...
... seems that much of it is now being studied more intensively in the United States than in the countries of its origin. The idea that the story of Leif the Lucky is a fable based on Irish mythology may come as a shock to some readers, but ...
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... seems highly improbable, it should be King Lear, whom he tells us all about, rather than Queen Elizabeth, whom he hardly mentions. The fact that chronology depends upon reading and writing seems quite Chambers, unknown2 to historians ...
... seems highly improbable, it should be King Lear, whom he tells us all about, rather than Queen Elizabeth, whom he hardly mentions. The fact that chronology depends upon reading and writing seems quite Chambers, unknown2 to historians ...
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... seems, completely lose interest, not 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 ...
... seems, completely lose interest, not 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 ...
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... seem 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 ...
... seem 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 ...
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... seem to assume that the details of battles and floods, court intrigues, and even domestic conversations, transmit ... seems to is, me, falls into a similar error when he in my experience, one of the most tenacious memories a people ...
... seem to assume that the details of battles and floods, court intrigues, and even domestic conversations, transmit ... seems to is, me, falls into a similar error when he in my experience, one of the most tenacious memories a people ...
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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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