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245 0 4 _aThe hero's quest /
_ceditors, Bernard Schweizer, Robert Segal.
260 _aIpswich, Mass. :
_bSalem Press,
_cc2013.
300 _axi, 280 p. ;
_c24 cm.
490 1 _aCritical insights
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _tOn the hero's quest /
_rRobert A. Segal --
_gCritical contexts :
_tTheories of myth /
_rRobert A. Segal ;
_tWolfram's Parzival considered through a Kierkegaardian lens /
_rEric Ziolkowski ;
_tRomancing the quest: quest narratives in changing contexts /
_rJeremy M. Downes ;
_tModernist quests: Heart of darkness and The man who died /
_rMichael Bell --
_gCritical readings :
_tQuests for immortality and identity: The epic of Gilgamesh and The odyssey /
_rKatherine C. King ;
_tVirgil's The aeneid and the ambivalence of Aeneas's heroic quest /
_rEric Sandberg ;
_tThe hero's quest in Beowulf /
_rJames B. Kelley ;
_gThe
_tchivalric quest: Sir Gawain and the green knight /
_rAnthony Adams ;
_tDante's quest and the sublimation of heroic combat in The divine comedy /
_rMatthew Bolton ;
_gThe
_tbildungsroman as quest narrative: Great expectations and Jane Eyre /
_rVictoria Williams ;
_tVaried and conflicting quests in Melville's Moby-Dick: the nine "gams" /
_rRobert C. Evans ;
_tOne for all: the fantasy quest in The hobbit, The wizard of Oz, and His dark materials /
_rStephen W. Potts ;
_tChatwin's postmodern quest: In Patagonia /
_rSimon Cooke.
520 _aThis 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
650 0 _aHeroes in literature.
650 0 _aQuests (Expeditions) in literature.
650 0 _aEpic literature
_xHistory and criticism.
700 1 _aSchweizer, Bernard,
_d1962-
700 1 _aSegal, Robert Alan.
830 0 _aCritical insights.
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