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245 04 The hero's quest /|ceditors, Bernard Schweizer, Robert 
       Segal. 
264  1 Ipswich, Mass. :|bSalem Press,|c[2013] 
264  4 |c©2013 
300    1 online resource (xi, 280 pages). 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
338    online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Critical insights 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 00 |tOn the hero's quest /|rRobert A. Segal -- Critical 
       contexts.|tTheories of myth /|rRobert A. Segal --
       |tWolfram's Parzival considered through a Kierkegaardian 
       lens /|rEric Ziolkowski --|tRomancing the quest: quest 
       narratives in changing contexts /|rJeremy M. Downes --
       |tModernist quests: Heart of darkness and The man who died
       /|rMichael Bell -- Critical readings.|tQuests for 
       immortality and identity: The epic of Gilgamesh and The 
       odyssey /|rKatherine C. King --|tVirgil's The aeneid and 
       the ambivalence of Aeneas's heroic quest /|rEric Sandberg 
       --|tThe hero's quest in Beowulf /|rJames B. Kelley --|tThe
       chivalric quest: Sir Gawain and the green knight /
       |rAnthony Adams --|tDante's quest and the sublimation of 
       heroic combat in The divine comedy /|rMatthew Bolton --
       |tThe bildungsroman as quest narrative: Great expectations
       and Jane Eyre /|rVictoria Williams --|tVaried and 
       conflicting quests in Melville's Moby-Dick: the nine 
       "gams" /|rRobert C. Evans --|tOne for all: the fantasy 
       quest in The hobbit, The wizard of Oz, and His dark 
       materials /|rStephen W. Potts --|tChatwin's postmodern 
       quest: In Patagonia /|rSimon Cooke -- Resources.
       |tAdditional works on the hero's quest --|tBibliography. 
520    This book provides readers with a series of essays that 
       address the theme of the hero's quest in literature 
       through a diverse set of texts and through multiple 
       methodologies. The essays survey the critical conversation
       regarding the theme, explore its cultural and historical 
       contexts, and offer close and comparative readings of key 
       texts containing the theme. 
588 0  Print version record. 
650  0 Heroes in literature. 
650  0 Quests (Expeditions) in literature. 
650  0 Epic literature|xHistory and criticism. 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY|xLiterary.|2bisacsh 
650  7 Epic literature.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00913695 
650  7 Heroes in literature.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00955583 
650  7 Quests (Expeditions) in literature.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01085709 
655  7 Criticism, interpretation, etc.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411635 
700 1  Schweizer, Bernard,|d1962- 
700 1  Segal, Robert Alan. 
776 08 |iPrint version:|tHero's quest.|dIpswich, Mass. : Salem 
       Press, ©2013|z9781429837378|w(DLC)  2012017995
       |w(OCoLC)777600656 
830  0 Critical insights. 
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