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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... suggests no motive for committing such facts to memory, nor any possible machinery for transmitting them, and he asks us to believe that the Anglo-Saxons of the Settlement had conceptions of chronology which were quite foreign to Paston ...
... suggests no motive for committing such facts to memory, nor any possible machinery for transmitting them, and he asks us to believe that the Anglo-Saxons of the Settlement had conceptions of chronology which were quite foreign to Paston ...
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... suggest that this interest could be due only to patriotism, but fails to realize that ardent patriots are notoriously indifferent to historical facts; any fable which gratifies their national pride is history to them. Professor Chadwick ...
... suggest that this interest could be due only to patriotism, but fails to realize that ardent patriots are notoriously indifferent to historical facts; any fable which gratifies their national pride is history to them. Professor Chadwick ...
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... suggests that he was a mythical hero after whom Hereward of Bourne and other Saxons were named. “The study of genealogy,” says Dr. Round,5 “is rich in illustration of the mental perversity of man, of his misdirected toil, of his ...
... suggests that he was a mythical hero after whom Hereward of Bourne and other Saxons were named. “The study of genealogy,” says Dr. Round,5 “is rich in illustration of the mental perversity of man, of his misdirected toil, of his ...
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... suggest that each Attic phratry, kinship being in each the nominal bond of association, fathers of the sacrificed kindred.” to12 their own Tritopatores, as a vague group of However this may be, we need go no farther than Wales to see ...
... suggest that each Attic phratry, kinship being in each the nominal bond of association, fathers of the sacrificed kindred.” to12 their own Tritopatores, as a vague group of However this may be, we need go no farther than Wales to see ...
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... suggest that a belief in the historicity of tradition is the outcome of a wish to believe rather than of a critical study of the facts. I shall now consider local traditions of a different type—the type, that is to say, where a story is ...
... suggest that a belief in the historicity of tradition is the outcome of a wish to believe rather than of a critical study of the facts. I shall now consider local traditions of a different type—the type, that is to say, where a story is ...
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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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