TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schweizer,Bernard
AU  - Segal,Robert Alan
TI  - The hero's quest
T2  - Critical insights
SN  - 9781429837378 (hardcover)
AV  - PN 56.5 .H45 H53 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Ipswich, Mass.
PB  - Salem Press
KW  - Heroes in literature
KW  - Quests (Expeditions) in literature
KW  - Epic literature
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -