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题名/责任者:

The hero's quest and the cycles of nature : an ecological interpretation of world mythology / Rachel S. McCoppin

出版发行项:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, c2016

ISBN:

9781476662015 (softcover : alk. paper) :

ISBN:

1476662010 (softcover : alk. paper)

载体形态项:

vii, 223 pages ; 23 cm

个人责任者:

McCoppin, Rachel S., 1977- author

论题主题:

Nature-Mythology

论题主题:

Heroes

论题主题:

Mythology

论题主题:

Heroes-Mythology

中图法分类号:

B920

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-220) and index

内容附注:

From seeds and sprouts to branching out -- Caves and the underworld -- Death and sacrifice -- Natural apotheosis and the resurrection of the botanical hero

摘要附注:

"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"--

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