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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Otto Rank; Gregory C Ritcher; E James Lieberman |
ISBN: | 0801878837 9780801878831 |
OCLC Number: | 1014075412 |
Description: | vLviii, 149 pages |
Contents: | Introductory Essay by Robert A. Segal, Ph.D.Translators' IntroductionPreface to the First EditionPreface to the Second Edition1. Introduction2. The Cycle of Myths3. The Interpretation of the MythsThe Play within HamletUnderstanding of the WorkNotesReferencesIndex |
Other Titles: | Mythus von der Gefurt des Helden. |
Responsibility: | Otto Rank ; translated by Gregory C. Ritcher and E. James Lieberman. |
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"Nearly all prominent civilized nations, including Babylonians and Egyptians, Hebrews and Indians, Persians, Greeks and Romans, as well as the Germanic peoples and others, have left us literatures in which, early on, they glorify national heroes - mythical princes and kings, and founders of religions, dynasties, empires, and cities - in many poetic tales and legends. The history of the birth and youth of these supermen came to be especially invested with fantastic features, which in different nations, though widely separated by space and entirely independent of each other, present a baffling similarity or, in part, a literal correspondence... The ultimate problem is not whence and how the material reached a certain people. That question is, Where did it come from to begin with?" - from The Myth of the Birth of the Hero" Read more...

