The hero in literature
By: edited with an introd. by Victor Brombert.
Series: Literature and ideas series
Publisher: Fawcett Publications
Published: 1969
Place of publication: Greenwich, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Heroes in literature
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
A Fawcett premier book, P443.
Table of contents: title: The hero, by C. M. Bowra.; title: The norms of epic, by T. M. Greene.; title: The matrix of heroism: Ajax, by C. H. Whitman.; title: Oedipus at Colonus, by B. M. W. Knox.; title: The uses of love: Chrétien's knights, by C. Moorman.; title: Heroic man, by E. M. Waith.; title: The pattern of a Christian hero, by J. M. Steadman.; title: From the philosophy of fine art, by G. W. F. Hegel.; title: Sir Walter Scott, by G. Lukács.; title: Self, society, value, and the romantic hero, by F. Garber.; title: The unheroic hero, by R. Giraud.; title: The artist as hero, by R. P. Blackmur.; title: Sartre: the intellectual as "impossible" hero, by V. Brombert.; title: The modern hero: Phoenix or ashes? By E. Kern.; title: The hero today, by J. Campbell.