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In Quest of the Hero
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 291.213
EAN: 9780691020624
ISBN: 0691020620
Label: Princeton University Press
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: November 01, 1990
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Studio: Princeton University Press
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Editorial Review: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 the Life of Jesus." Examined here are the patterns found in the lore surrounding historical or legendary figures like Gilgamesh, Moses, David, Oedipus, Odysseus, Perseus, Heracles, Aeneas, Romulus, Siegfried, Lohengrin, Arthur, and Buddha.Rank's monograph remains the classic application of Freudian theory to hero myths. In The Hero the noted English ethnologist Raglan singles out the myth-ritualist pattern in James Frazer's many-sided Golden Bough and applies that pattern to hero myths. Dundes, the eminent folklorist at the University of California at Berkeley, applies the theories of Rank, Raglan, and others to the case of Jesus. In his introduction to this selection from Rank, Raglan, and Dundes, Robert Segal, author of the major study of Joseph Campbell, charts the history of theorizing about hero myths and compares the approaches of Rank, Raglan, Dundes, and Campbell.
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Rating: - Best introduction to Classical perspectives of the hero myth
Robert A. Segal is very likely the best Classical theorist of the hero myth. In his book, In Quest of the Hero, he offers an excellent essay on the key theorists of the hero myth. This essay alone is worth the cost of the book.
This book offers the key works of Raglan and Rank. He also offers other key works on the hero myth.
Of note, Segal offers the controversial essay by Dundes on the hero myth and Jesus Christ. It would be interesting to get feed back from our Christian ... Read More
Rating: - Classic studies
This is an excellent and economical way to get these classic studies. Contains Lord Raglan's 22 things you need to be a hero. The first - The hero's mother is a royal virgin - the last - has one or more holy sepulchres. Must read literature for the mythologist and interesting to check how your particular hero matches up with the standards! Rank has his own list of 16 things, so if you can't make the big list, try the little one . . .
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