The epic hero /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Miller, Dean A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Subjects:
Epic literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Heroes in literature.
Littérature épique > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Héros dans la littérature.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Heroes in literature
Helden (personen)
Heldenepen.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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