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The hero's quest / editors, Bernard Schweizer, Long Island University, Robert A. Segal, University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical insights.
- Critical insights
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Heroes in literature.
- Quests (Expeditions) in literature.
- Epic literature--History and criticism.
- Epic literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 280 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, c2013.
- Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume in the Critical Insights series addresses the theme of the hero's quest in literature through a diverse set of texts and through multiple methodologies.--Publisher description.
- Contents:
- On the hero's quest / Robert A. Segal
- Critical contexts. Theories of myth / Robert A. Segal ; Wolfram's Parzival considered through a Kierkegaardian lens / Eric Ziolkowski ; Romancing the quest: quest narratives in changing contexts / Jeremy M. Downes ; Modernist quests: Heart of darkness and The man who died / Michael Bell
- Critical readings. Quests for immortality and identity: The epic of Gilgamesh and The odyssey / Katherine C. King ; Virgil's The aeneid and the ambivalence of Aeneas's heroic quest / Eric Sandberg ; The hero's quest in Beowulf / James B. Kelley ; The chivalric quest: Sir Gawain and the green knight / Anthony Adams ; Dante's quest and the sublimation of heroic combat in The divine comedy / Matthew Bolton ; The bildungsroman as quest narrative: Great expectations and Jane Eyre / Victoria Williams ; Varied and conflicting quests in Melville's Moby-Dick: the nine "gams" / Robert C. Evans ; One for all: the fantasy quest in The hobbit, The wizard of Oz, and His dark materials / Stephen W. Potts ; Chatwin's postmodern quest: In Patagonia / Simon Cooke
- Resources. Additional works on the hero's quest ; Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781283803793
- 1283803798
- 9781429837859
- 1429837853
- OCLC:
- 816567953
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