THE HERO'S JOURNEY (Bloom's Literary Themes)

The hero's journey, a quest that leads to self-discovery, has been central to literature since the earliest epics. Covering the role of the hero’s journey in 'Beowulf', 'The Lord of the Rings', 'Moby-Dick', 'Pride and Prejudice', and many others, The Hero’s Journey contains about 20 original and reprinted essays and critical analyses that discuss the role of the title’s subject theme in great works of literature.

CONTENTS
Series Introduction by Harold Bloom: Themes and Metaphors
Volume Introduction by Harold Bloom
- The Aeneid (Virgil)
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
- Beowulf
- David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
- Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes)
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin)
- Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
- Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare)
- The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
- A Man for All Seasons (Robert Bolt)
- Middlemarch (George Eliot)
- Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
- The Odyssey (Homer)
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
- Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
- The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Maxine Hong Kingston)
- "The Worn Path" (Eudora Welty)
Acknowledgments
Index