The Epic Hero
"Drawing on diverse disciplines including classics, anthropology, psychology, and literary studies, this product of twenty years' scholarship provides a detailed topology of the hero in western myth: birth, parentage, familial ties, sexuality, character, deeds, death, and afterlife. Dean A...
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Baltimore, Md. :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2002.
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| Edition: | Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Book of the Hero
- 1. The Hero from on High
- 2. The Heroic Biography
- 3. The Framework of Adventure
- 4. The Hero "Speaks"
- 5. Foils, Fools, and Antiheroes
- 6. Tertium Quid: Aspects of Liminality
- 7. The Final Hero: Beyond Immortality.
