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The hero's journey / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom ; volume editor, Blake Hobby. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Bloom's literary themesPublication details: New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, (c)2009.Description: xiv, 242 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780791098035
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN56.H682.H476 2009
  • PN56
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Contents:
The Aeneid (Virgil). "Aeneas" by T.R. Glover, in Virgil (1904) -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll). "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Kathleen Blake, in Play, Games, and Sport: The Literary Works of Lewis Carroll (1974) -- Beowulf. "Beowulf" by W.P. Ker, in Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature (1908) -- David Copperfield (Charles Dickens). "David Copperfield and the Emergence of the Homeless Hero" by Beth F. Herst, in The Dickens Hero: Selfhood and Alienation in the Dickens World (1990) -- Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes). "Don Quixote" by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, in Some Authors: A Collection of Literary Essays, 1896-1916 (1923) -- The Epic of Gilgamesh. "The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Hero's Journey" by Merritt Moseley -- Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin). "James Baldwin" by Robert Bone, in The Negro Novel in America (1965) -- Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte). "Jane Eyre and the Hero's Journey" by Merritt Moseley -- Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare). "The Political Odyssey: Shakespeare's Exploration of Ethics in Julius Caesar" by Matthew Sims -- The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien). "Hobbits and Heroism" by Richard L. Purtill, in J.R.R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality, and Religion (1984) -- A Man for All Seasons (Robert Bolt). "The Hero as Rebel: Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons" by Scott Walters -- Middlemarch (George Eliot). "Middlemarch and the Hero's Journey" by Merritt Moseley -- Moby-Dick (Herman Melville). "Moby Dick" by William Ellery Sedgwick, in Herman Melville: The Tragedy ofMind (1944) -- The Odyssey (Homer). "The Man of Many Turns" by Albert Cook, in The Classic Line: A Study in Epic Poetry (1966) -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce). "On A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by Dorothy Van Ghent, in The English Novel: Form and Function (1953) -- Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen). "Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen's 'Patrician Hero" by Kenneth L. Moler, in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 (1967) -- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. "Sir Gawain's Unfulfilled/Unfulfilling Quest" by Michael G. Cornelius -- To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee). "'Stand up; your father's passing:' Atticus Finch as Hero Archetype" by Marlisa Santos -- The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Maxine Hong Kingston). "The Woman Warrior and the Hero's Journey" by Lauren P. De La Vars -- "The Worn Path" (Eudora Welty). "'The Worn Path' and the Hero's Journey" by Jean Hamm.
Subject: Explores the literary theme of the hero's journey in twenty essays covering works by authors as varied as Virgil and Maxine Hong Kingston.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

The Aeneid (Virgil). "Aeneas" by T.R. Glover, in Virgil (1904) -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll). "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Kathleen Blake, in Play, Games, and Sport: The Literary Works of Lewis Carroll (1974) -- Beowulf. "Beowulf" by W.P. Ker, in Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature (1908) -- David Copperfield (Charles Dickens). "David Copperfield and the Emergence of the Homeless Hero" by Beth F. Herst, in The Dickens Hero: Selfhood and Alienation in the Dickens World (1990) -- Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes). "Don Quixote" by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, in Some Authors: A Collection of Literary Essays, 1896-1916 (1923) -- The Epic of Gilgamesh. "The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Hero's Journey" by Merritt Moseley -- Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin). "James Baldwin" by Robert Bone, in The Negro Novel in America (1965) -- Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte). "Jane Eyre and the Hero's Journey" by Merritt Moseley -- Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare). "The Political Odyssey: Shakespeare's Exploration of Ethics in Julius Caesar" by Matthew Sims -- The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien). "Hobbits and Heroism" by Richard L. Purtill, in J.R.R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality, and Religion (1984) -- A Man for All Seasons (Robert Bolt). "The Hero as Rebel: Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons" by Scott Walters -- Middlemarch (George Eliot). "Middlemarch and the Hero's Journey" by Merritt Moseley -- Moby-Dick (Herman Melville). "Moby Dick" by William Ellery Sedgwick, in Herman Melville: The Tragedy ofMind (1944) -- The Odyssey (Homer). "The Man of Many Turns" by Albert Cook, in The Classic Line: A Study in Epic Poetry (1966) -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce). "On A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by Dorothy Van Ghent, in The English Novel: Form and Function (1953) -- Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen). "Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen's 'Patrician Hero" by Kenneth L. Moler, in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 (1967) -- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. "Sir Gawain's Unfulfilled/Unfulfilling Quest" by Michael G. Cornelius -- To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee). "'Stand up; your father's passing:' Atticus Finch as Hero Archetype" by Marlisa Santos -- The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Maxine Hong Kingston). "The Woman Warrior and the Hero's Journey" by Lauren P. De La Vars -- "The Worn Path" (Eudora Welty). "'The Worn Path' and the Hero's Journey" by Jean Hamm.

Explores the literary theme of the hero's journey in twenty essays covering works by authors as varied as Virgil and Maxine Hong Kingston.

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