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The hero's quest
- Title
- The hero's quest / editors, Bernard Schweizer, Robert Segal.
- Publication
- Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, c2013.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 13-685 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xi, 280 p.; 24 cm.
- 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. --from publisher description
- Series Statement
- Critical insights
- Uniform Title
- Critical insights.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-685
- ISBN
- 9781429837378 (hardcover)
- 1429837373 (hardcover)
- LCCN
- 2012017995
- OCLC
- 777600656
- Title
- The hero's quest / editors, Bernard Schweizer, Robert Segal.
- Imprint
- Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, c2013.
- Series
- Critical insightsCritical insights.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Schweizer, Bernard, 1962-Segal, Robert Alan.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-685