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Description:Through the ages, the concept of heroism has changed to reflect the total experience of man: ancient Greece and Rome produced heroic warriors; feudalism produced King Arthur, whose knights attained valor in the service of love; the Romantic hero of the bourgeois age, paralyzed by doubt, is primarily a revel against a background to which he is secretly attached, torn between militant desires and a chronic sense of guilt.The "hero" is man's poetic projection of himself as he faces the meaning or meaninglessness of life; the hero's role is to challenge the powers that escape human understanding. And changing concepts of heroism reflect basic cultural shifts. Thus, the essays in this volume, invaluable as background for the study of literature, also constitute a significant contribution to cultural history. Included are essays by:C. M. Bowra • Thomas Greene • Cedric Whitman • Bernard Knox • Charles Moorman • Eugene Waith • John Steadman • G. W. F. Hegel • Georg Lukács • Frederick Garber • Raymond Giraud • R. P. Blackmur • Edith Kern • Joseph Campbell • Victor BrombertWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Hero in Literature. To get started finding The Hero in Literature, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 288

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Fawcett Publications, Inc.

Release: 1969

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Description: Through the ages, the concept of heroism has changed to reflect the total experience of man: ancient Greece and Rome produced heroic warriors; feudalism produced King Arthur, whose knights attained valor in the service of love; the Romantic hero of the bourgeois age, paralyzed by doubt, is primarily a revel against a background to which he is secretly attached, torn between militant desires and a chronic sense of guilt.The "hero" is man's poetic projection of himself as he faces the meaning or meaninglessness of life; the hero's role is to challenge the powers that escape human understanding. And changing concepts of heroism reflect basic cultural shifts. Thus, the essays in this volume, invaluable as background for the study of literature, also constitute a significant contribution to cultural history. Included are essays by:C. M. Bowra • Thomas Greene • Cedric Whitman • Bernard Knox • Charles Moorman • Eugene Waith • John Steadman • G. W. F. Hegel • Georg Lukács • Frederick Garber • Raymond Giraud • R. P. Blackmur • Edith Kern • Joseph Campbell • Victor BrombertWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Hero in Literature. To get started finding The Hero in Literature, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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