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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... story or part of a story makes it historically true. They 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 ...
... story or part of a story makes it historically true. They 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 ...
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... story of Leif the Lucky is a fable based on Irish mythology may come as a shock to some readers, but hardly to those who know how many alleged vestiges of the Norsemen in America have been shown to be spurious. On the other hand, the ...
... story of Leif the Lucky is a fable based on Irish mythology may come as a shock to some readers, but hardly to those who know how many alleged vestiges of the Norsemen in America have been shown to be spurious. On the other hand, the ...
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... story of our lives not as a crosscountry walk upon which we are still engaged, but as a path, cut deliberately by fate and ourselves, to the positions which we now occupy. In our consideration of the story of others, our minds work in ...
... story of our lives not as a crosscountry walk upon which we are still engaged, but as a path, cut deliberately by fate and ourselves, to the positions which we now occupy. In our consideration of the story of others, our minds work in ...
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... stories, and these stories may seem to be memories of historical events. They tell of the journeys and victories of heroes, and with some rationalization and rearrangement these journeys and victories can be made to represent historical ...
... stories, and these stories may seem to be memories of historical events. They tell of the journeys and victories of heroes, and with some rationalization and rearrangement these journeys and victories can be made to represent historical ...
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... 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 Sir E. K. Chambers ...
... 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 Sir E. K. Chambers ...
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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
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