Hero's Quest and the Cycles of Nature
Subtitle: An Ecological Interpretation of World Mythology
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781476662015
Subjects: Nature in literature; Mythology in literature
Description: "This examination of the heroic journey in world mythology casts the protagonist as a personification of nature--a "botanical hero"--who begins the quest in a metaphorical seed-like state, sprouting into strength to face a mythic underworld. A cyclical promise of continuous life is realized, in which no element fully disappears"--