The hero's quest / 
editors, Bernard Schweizer, Robert Segal. 
 - Ipswich, Mass. :  Salem Press,  c2013. 
 - xi, 280 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - Critical insights .
 - Critical insights. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> On the hero's quest /  Theories of myth /  Wolfram's Parzival considered through a Kierkegaardian lens /  Romancing the quest: quest narratives in changing contexts /  Modernist quests: Heart of darkness and The man who died /  Quests for immortality and identity: The epic of Gilgamesh and The odyssey /  Virgil's The aeneid and the ambivalence of Aeneas's heroic quest /  The hero's quest in Beowulf /  chivalric quest: Sir Gawain and the green knight /  Dante's quest and the sublimation of heroic combat in The divine comedy /  bildungsroman as quest narrative: Great expectations and Jane Eyre /  Varied and conflicting quests in Melville's Moby-Dick: the nine "gams" /  One for all: the fantasy quest in The hobbit, The wizard of Oz, and His dark materials /  Chatwin's postmodern quest: In Patagonia /  Robert A. Segal --  Robert A. Segal ;  Eric Ziolkowski ;  Jeremy M. Downes ;  Michael Bell --  Katherine C. King ;  Eric Sandberg ;  James B. Kelley ;  Anthony Adams ;  Matthew Bolton ;  Victoria Williams ;  Robert C. Evans ;  Stephen W. Potts ;  Simon Cooke.  Critical contexts :  Critical readings :  The  The 
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781429837378 (hardcover) 1429837373 (hardcover) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012017995 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Heroes in literature.<br/>Quests (Expeditions) in literature.<br/>Epic literature--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN 56.5 .H45  / H53 2013