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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miller, Dean A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The hero from on high
  • The heroic biography
  • The framework of adventure
  • The hero "speaks"
  • Foils, fools, and antiheroes
  • Tertium quid: aspects of liminality
  • The final hero: beyond immortality.