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).
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!