Peter Stillman
Autore di Families Writing
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- Opere
- 8
- Utenti
- 168
- Popolarità
- #126,679
- Voto
- 3.0
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 11
After the introduction he devotes a chapter to the Hero Quest myth and another to three other mythic tropes (loss of innocence, duality, and fertility). Each chapter is liberally sprinkled with literary examples. The last section of the book is an anthology of readings related to these four tropes without commentary. A short bibliography rounds out the book.
While I agree with the author's theses, a lot of what he has to say seems self-evident and facile to me. This would perhaps not have been true if I was a freshman starting out in the study of literature.… (altro)