In Quest of the Hero: (Mythos Series)

Otto Rank; Fitzroy Richard Somerset Raglan; Alan Dundes

Published by Princeton University Press 1991

In Quest of the Hero

(Mythos Series)

Otto Rank , Fitzroy Richard Somerset Raglan and Alan Dundes

Volume 143 in the series Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691234229

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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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
INTRODUCTION: IN QUEST OF THE HERO Robert A. Segal Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
PARTI THE MYTH OF THE BIRTH OF THE HERO
Introduction Otto Rank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
THE CIRCLE OF MYTHS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
THE INTERPRETATION OF THE MYTHS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
PART II THE HERO: A STUDY IN TRADITION, MYTH, AND DRAMA
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MYTH AND RITUAL: THE TALE OF TROY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
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PART III THE HERO PATTERN AND THE LIFE OF JESUS
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