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Mythology : the voyage of the hero / David Adams Leeming.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leeming, David Adams, 1937- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mythology.
- Heroes--Mythology.
- Heroes.
- Heroes in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 pages)
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Leeming collects a wide array of narrative texts from the Bible to English literature, as well as non-English language sources, to present a universal approach to the topic of mythology.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Meaning of Myth; Part 1. THE MIRACULOUS CONCEPTION AND BIRTH AND THE HIDING OF THE CHILD; Part 2. CHILDHOOD, INITIATION, AND DIVINE SIGNS; Part 3. PREPARATION, MEDITATION, WITHDRAWAL, AND REFUSAL; Part 4. TRIAL AND QUEST; Part 5. DEATH AND THE SCAPEGOAT; Part 6. THE DESCENT TO THE UNDERWORLD; Part 7. RESURRECTION AND REBIRTH; Part 8. ASCENSION, APOTHEOSIS, AND ATONEMENT; Selected Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Bibliography: p259-264. _ Includes index.
- Previously issued in print: 1998.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-264) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772536-8
- 1-280-52998-9
- 0-19-802810-5
- 1-4294-1581-9
- OCLC:
- 476010340
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