"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.
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.
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