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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... telling him something of the Romans in Britain. He looked rather puzzled, and asked: “Were you there then, Daddy?” When we read of the Irish blacksmith who said that his smithy was much older than the local dolmen; it was there in his ...
... telling him something of the Romans in Britain. He looked rather puzzled, and asked: “Were you there then, Daddy?” When we read of the Irish blacksmith who said that his smithy was much older than the local dolmen; it was there in his ...
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... 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. “it is probable that, Thus, according to Professor even in ...
... 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. “it is probable that, Thus, according to Professor even in ...
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... tell of the journeys and victories of heroes, and with some rationalization and rearrangement these journeys and victories can be made to represent historical migrations and conquests. These stories, however, are really myths. What a ...
... tell of the journeys and victories of heroes, and with some rationalization and rearrangement these journeys and victories can be made to represent historical migrations and conquests. These stories, however, are really myths. What a ...
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... a myth, century. which seems15 Sir E. K. Chambers tells us that in such tales the names are the least permanent feature. He instances the story of how a horseman leaped over Bodrugan Head, in Cornwall, to escape from his.
... a myth, century. which seems15 Sir E. K. Chambers tells us that in such tales the names are the least permanent feature. He instances the story of how a horseman leaped over Bodrugan Head, in Cornwall, to escape from his.
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... tells “folk-memory.”19 us while that The same Professor T. H. the story of the Flood, as it historical event.” stands in Similarly Genesis, is a Professor Gordon “race-memory Childe21 assures of a remote us that “the ancient Sumerian ...
... tells “folk-memory.”19 us while that The same Professor T. H. the story of the Flood, as it historical event.” stands in Similarly Genesis, is a Professor Gordon “race-memory Childe21 assures of a remote us that “the ancient Sumerian ...
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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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