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What is The Theme of the Hero about?

xvii, 300 pages 23 cm Part One : The mythic hero -- Fictional modes / Northrop Fyre -- Genesis / The Bible -- The hero and the God / Joseph Campbell -- Zarathustra's prologue / Friedrich W. Nietzsche -- Paradise Lost, Book IX / John Milton -- Brahma / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Hamatreya / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Uriel / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Prometheus Unbound / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Part two : The romantic hero -- from the Iliad / Homer -- Ligeia / Edgar Allen Poe -- The artist of the beautiful / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Standards of Fiction / William Dean Howells -- Part three : The tragic hero -- Antigone / Sophocles -- The tragic fallacy / Joseph Wood Krutch -- Tragedy and the common man / Arthur Miller -- Part four : The realistic hero -- The return of a private / Hamlin Garland -- Fenimore cooper's literary offenses / Mark Twain -- A coon hunt in a fency country / William T. Thompson -- Simon becomes Captain / Johnson J. Hooper -- Editha / William Dean Howells -- Part five : The ironic hero -- The myth of Sisyphus / Albert Camus -- The book of Job / The Bible -- The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- Three poems / Stephen Crane -- Bartleby the Scrivener / Herman Melville -- The porte

Author

Roy Pickett

Publisher

Dubuque, Iowa, W.C. Brown

Published

1969

Language

EN