The Epic Hero, English: 5113.33.

Autor/in	Hargraves, Richard
Institution	Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL.
Titel	The Epic Hero, English: 5113.33.
Quelle	(1971), (44 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Classical Literature; Cultural Context; Curriculum Guides; Epics; Fiction; Folk Culture; Historical Criticism; Legends; Literary Criticism; Mythic Criticism; Mythology; Nationalism; Psychological Needs; Security; Social Influences; Symbols (Literary) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Classical philology; Literature; Altphilologie; literatur; Curriculare Materialien; Fiktion; Literaturkritik; Mythologie; Nationalismus; Sicherheit; Sozialer Einfluss
Abstract	A course outline for a language arts program on the study of the epic hero is presented. The student is to analyze the nationalistic and cultural characteristics of the epic hero and to identify the psychological dependence of peoples of various cultures as they search for identity and worth through the patriarchal figure or symbol. Course objectives include: (1) an understanding of the characteristics of the epic hero stereotype; (2) the ability to interpret myths, epics, and narratives as transformations of the doctrinal essence of the patriarchal symbol to the reality of the cultural hero; and (3) an inference that psychological dependence on charismatic, nationalistic figures is a vicarious extension of a search for identity and worth from self to the larger paternalistic symbol of security and authority. A rationale for the course, detailed teaching strategies, study questions, and a bibliography of main and supplementary texts, reference materials, films, filmstrips, and periodicals are included. (Author/DI)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC