This volume considers the hero's quest with both new and original essays that discuss works such as The Odyssey, The Aeneid, The Inferno, Gulliver's Travels, Tom Jones, Moby-Dick, His Dark Materials, and Surfacing.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
On the Hero's Quest.
Critical Contexts.
1: Theories of Myth.
2: Wolfram's Parzival Considered through a Kierkegaardian Lens.
3: Romancing the Quest: Quest Narratives in Changing Contexts.
4: Modernist Quests: Heart of Darkness and The Man Who Died.
Critical Readings.
5: Quests for Immortality and Identity: The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Odyssey.
6: Virgil's The Aeneid and the Ambivalence of Aeneas's Heroic Quest.
7: The Hero's Quest in Beowulf.
8: The Chivalric Quest: Sir Gawain And The Green Knight.
9: Dante's Quest and the Sublimation of Heroic Combat in The Divine Comedy.
10: The Bildungsroman as Quest Narrative: Great Expectations and Jane Eyre.
11: Varied and Conflicting Quests in Melville's Moby-Dick: The Nine “Gams”.
12: One for All: The Fantasy Quest in The Hobbit, The Wizard of Oz, and His Dark Materials.
