The hero journey in literature : parables of poesis

著者

• Smith, Evans Lansing

書誌事項

The hero journey in literature : parables of poesis

Evans Lansing Smith

University Press of America, c1997

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [463]-478) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This book provides an overview of the hero journey theme in literature, from antiquity to the present, with a focus on the imagery of the rites of passage in human life (initiation at adolescence, mid-life, and death). This is the only book to focus on the major works of the literary tradition, detailing discussions of the hero journey in major literary texts. Included are chapters on the literature of Antiquity (Sumerian, Egyptian, Biblical, Greek, and Roman), the Middle Ages (with emphasis on the Arthurian Romance), the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (Shakespeare, Milton, Marvell, Pope, Fielding, the Arabian Nights, and Alchemical Illustration), Romanticism and Naturalism (Coleridge, Selected Grimm's Tales, Bront%, Bierce, Whitman, Twain, Hawthorne, E.T.A. Hoffman, Rabindranath Tagore), and Modernism to Contemporary (Joyce, Gilman, Alifa Rifaat, Bellow, Lessing, Pynchon, Eudora Welty).

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA82201890
• ISBN:
  • 0761805095
• LCCN: 96030896
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Lanham
• ページ数/冊数: xvi, 498 p.
• 大きさ: 22 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : PN56.5.H45
  • DC20 : 809/.93353
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Heroes in literature
  • LCSH : Travel in literature