The hero's quest / editors, Bernard Schweizer, Robert Segal.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Critical insightsPublication details: Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, c2013.Description: xi, 280 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781429837378 (hardcover)
  • 1429837373 (hardcover)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN 56.5 .H45 H53 2013
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.
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
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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.

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

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