The epic hero /

"Drawing on diverse disciplines including classics, anthropology, psychology, and literary studies, this product of twenty years' scholarship provides a detailed topology of the hero in western myth: birth, parentage, familial ties, sexuality, character, deeds, death, and afterlife. Dean A...

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Main Author:	Miller, Dean A.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Subjects:	Epic literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc. Heroes in literature. Littérature épique > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc. Héros dans la littérature. 17.86 literary genres, theory of genre. Epos Held Heldenepos Epik Helden (personen) Heldenepen. Held. Criticism, interpretation, etc.