Somewhere I Have Never Travelled: The Hero's Journey
Description:
The ancient hero's quest for glory offers metaphors for our own struggles to reach personal integrity and wholeness. In this compelling book, Van Nortwick traces the heroic journeys in three seminal works of ancient epic poetry, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer's Iliad, and Virgil's Aeneid. In particular, he focuses on the relationship of the hero to one or more second selves, or alter egos, showing how the poems address central truths about the cost of heroic self-assertion: that the pursuit of glory can lead to alienation from one's own deepest self, and that spiritual wholeness can only be achieved by confronting what appears, at first, to be the very negation of that self. With his unique combination of literary, psychological, and spiritual insights, Van Nortwick demonstrates the relevance of ancient literature to enduring human problems and to contemporary issues.
Somewhere I Have never Travelled will interest anyone who wishes to explore the roots of human behavior and the relationship between life and art.
Best prices to buy, sell, or rent ISBN 9780195101270
Frequently Asked Questions about Somewhere I Have Never Travelled: The Hero's Journey
The price for the book starts from $7.20 on Amazon and is available from 27 sellers at the moment.
If you’re interested in selling back the Somewhere I Have Never Travelled: The Hero's Journey book, you can always look up BookScouter for the best deal. BookScouter checks 30+ buyback vendors with a single search and gives you actual information on buyback pricing instantly.
As for the Somewhere I Have Never Travelled: The Hero's Journey book, the best buyback offer comes from and is $ for the book in good condition.
The Somewhere I Have Never Travelled: The Hero's Journey book is in very low demand now as the rank for the book is 2,444,566 at the moment. A rank of 1,000,000 means the last copy sold approximately a month ago.
Not enough insights yet.