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"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Miller, Dean A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Edición:Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Heroes in literature.
Epic literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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