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Editors: Bernard Schweizer, Long Island University,    and Robert Segal, University of Aberdeen ISBN: 978-1-42983-737-8 Print List Price: $85 e-ISBN: 978-1-4298-3785-9  eBook Single User Price: $85 October 2012 · 1 volume · 292 pages · 6"x9" Includes Online Database with Print Purchase Critical Insights: The Hero's Quest Table of Contents Contents About This Volume      —Bernard Schweizer On The Hero's Quest      —Robert A. Segal Critical Contexts Theories of Myth      —Robert A. Segal Wolfram's Parzival Considered through a Kierkegaardian Lens      —Eric Ziolkowski Romancing the Quest: Quest Narratives in Changing Contexts      —Jeremy M. Downes Modernist Quests: Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and D. H. Lawrence's The Man Who Died      —Michael Bell Critical Readings Quests for Immortality and Identity: The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Odyssey      —Katherine C. King Virgil's The Aeneid and the Ambivalence of Aeneas's Heroic Quest      —Eric Sandberg The Hero's Quest in Beowulf      —James B. Kelley The Chivalric Quest: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight      —Anthony Adams Dante's Quest and the Sublimation of Heroic Combat in The Divine Comedy      —Matthew Bolton The bildungsroman as Quest Narrative: Great Expectations and Jane Eyre      —Victoria Williams Varied and Conflicting Quests in Melville's Moby-Dick: The Nine "Gams"      —Robert C. Evans One for All: The Fantasy Quest in The Hobbit and His Dark Materials      —Stephen W. Potts Chatwin's Postmodern Quest: In Patagonia      —Simon Cooke Resources Additional Works on The Hero's Quest Bibliography About the Volume Editors Contributors Index

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