In Quest of the Hero : : (Mythos Series) / / Otto Rank, Alan Dundes, Fitzroy Richard Somerset Raglan.

In Quest of the Hero makes available for a new generation of readers two key works on hero myths: Otto Rank's Myth of the Birth of the Hero and the central section of Lord Raglan's The Hero. Amplifying these is Alan Dundes's fascinating contemporary inquiry, "The Hero Pattern and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1991
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology : 57 ; 143
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION: IN QUEST OF THE HERO
  • PARTI THE MYTH OF THE BIRTH OF THE HERO
  • Introduction
  • THE CIRCLE OF MYTHS
  • THE INTERPRETATION OF THE MYTHS
  • PART II THE HERO: A STUDY IN TRADITION, MYTH, AND DRAMA
  • THE GENESIS OF MYTH
  • THE FOLK-TALE
  • MYTH AND RITUAL
  • MYTH AND RITUAL (CONTINUED)
  • MYTH AND RITUAL: THE TALE OF TROY
  • THE HERO
  • THE HERO (CONTINUED)
  • THE HERO (CONTINUED)
  • MYTH AND THE HISTORIC HERO
  • PART III THE HERO PATTERN AND THE LIFE OF JESUS
  • THE HERO PATTERN AND THE LIFE OF JESUS