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  2. Doctor Illuminatus: A Ramon Llull Reader
  3. Dreams in Late Antiquity: Studies in the Imagination of a Culture
  4. Fire in the Dragon and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore
  5. From Religion to Philosophy: A Study in the Origins of Western Speculation
  6. From Ritual To Romance
  7. Grail Legend 2ND Edition
  8. Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolism
  9. Legend of the Baal-shem (95 Edition)
  10. Mambu: A Melanesian Millennium
  11. Mystic Tales from the Zohar
  12. Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism
  13. Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion
  14. Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistance
  15. The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind
  16. The Gnostic Jung: Selections from the Writings of C.G. Jung and His Critics
  17. The Grail: From Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol
  18. The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo
  19. The Homeric "Hymn to Demeter": Translation, Commentary, and Interpretive Essays
  20. The Presence of Siva
  21. The Wisdom of the Serpent: The Myths of Death, Rebirth, and Resurrection
  22. Tsathoggua Cycle: 14 Terror Tales of the Toad God
  23. Mythos #65-4: Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter

In Quest of the Hero: Mythos Series (Mythos)

by Otto Rank

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

"In Quest of the Hero" makes available for a new generation of readers two key works on hero myths: Otto Rank's "Myth of the Birth of the Hero" and the central section of Lord Raglan's "The Hero." Amplifying these is Alan Dundes's fascinating contemporary inquiry, "The Hero Pattern and the Life of Jesus." Examined here are the patterns found in the lore surrounding historical or legendary figures like Gilgamesh, Moses, David, Oedipus, Odysseus, Perseus, Heracles, Aeneas, Romulus, Siegfried, Lohengrin, Arthur, and Buddha.<P>Rank's monograph remains the classic application of Freudian theory to hero myths. In "The Hero" the noted English ethnologist Raglan singles out the myth-ritualist pattern in James Frazer's many-sided "Golden Bough" and applies that pattern to hero myths. Dundes, the eminent folklorist at the University of California at Berkeley, applies the theories of Rank, Raglan, and others to the case of Jesus. In his introduction to this selection from Rank, Raglan, and Dundes, Robert Segal, author of the major study of Joseph Campbell, charts the history of theorizing about hero myths and compares the approaches of Rank, Raglan, Dundes, and Campbell.

Book News Annotation:

Numerous case examples illustrate clinical techniques created by the authors to work in synchrony with their development model. Reprints two key works on hero myths--Otto Rank's Myth of the birth of the hero and the central section of Lord Raglan's The hero--amplified by Alan Dundes' contemporary inquiry, Pattern and the Life of Jesus Segal.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Table of Contents

The myth of the birth of the hero / by Otto Rank — The hero : studies in tradition, myth, and drama, Part II / by Lord Raglan — The hero pattern and the life of Jesus by Alan Dundes.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780691020624
Subtitle:
Mythos Series
Designed:
Segal, Robert A.
With:
Raglan, Lord
Designed:
Segal, Robert A.
Author:
Rank, Otto
Author:
Dundes, Alan
With:
Raglan, Lord
Author:
Raglan, Fitzroy Richard Somerset
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Location:
Princeton, N.J. :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Comparative Religion
Subject:
Religion
Subject:
Theology and philosophy
Subject:
Folklore & Mythology - Mythology
Subject:
Mythology
Subject:
Heroes
Subject:
Heroes -- Religious aspects.
Subject:
Folklore & Mythology
Subject:
Mind, Body & Spirit
Subject:
Psychology
Subject:
Heroes -- Mythology.
Copyright:
1990
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series:
Mythos Paperback
Series Volume:
22
Publication Date:
November 1990
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
College/higher education:
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
272
Dimensions:
9.00x6.04x.68 in. .80 lbs.
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