Hero Myths: A Reader - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 063121514X ISBN 13: 9780631215141

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 1991

Synopsis

Hero Myths: A Reader provides a selection of 25 stories about heroes from around the world.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This Reader collects 25 stories of heroes of all kinds from around the world. Included are both non-Western and Western, female and male, modern and ancient, young and adult, lowly and noble, comic and tragic, national and universal, and historical and fictional heroes. Failed as well as successful heroes are represented, as are anti-heroes as well as conventional heroes.

Hero Myths offers not only an array of kinds of hero myths but also a guide to understanding the myths selected. In a substantial introduction, Robert Segal, a leading authority on theories of myth, provides an overview of both the history of the study of heroes and the history of the study of hero myths from the fields of psychology, anthropology, folklore, literature, and religious studies.

About the Author:

Robert A. Segal is Professor of Theories of Religion at Lancaster University. He previously taught at Reed College, Standford University, University of Pittsburgh and Tulane University. He is the author of, among other books, Joseph Campbell: An Introduction (1987), Theorizing About Myth (1999), and editor of Jung on Mythology (1998), In Quest of the Hero (1990), and The Myth and Ritual Theory (Blackwell Publishers, 1998). He is also the European Editor of the journal Religion.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 063121514X
• ISBN 13: 9780631215141
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Segal Robert A.