The Creative Myth and the Cosmic Hero: Text and Context in Ernest Becker's the Denial of Death

by Ron Evans

Becker's hypothesis about psychic and spiritual unity within the Rankian idea of a hero provides the framework for this book. By extending Rank's and Becker's conceptions of heroism from a developmental process involving a World Hero Child, through a Monomythic narrative sequence (Campbell, 1968), and on into the literary texts of American fiction, this book illustrates Becker's wisdom. At the same time, it explores the implications that remain...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820418455
• ISBN13: 9780820418452
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 145 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.