Preface | |
Introduction | |
The Ancient World | p. 1 |
The Descent of Inanna | p. 2 |
Gilgamesh and Enkidu | p. 12 |
The Egyptian Books of the Dead | p. 21 |
Odysseus | p. 26 |
Demeter and Persephone | p. 45 |
The Biblical Hero Journey | p. 51 |
Aeneas | p. 60 |
The Golden Ass: Lucius and Psyche | p. 63 |
The Arthurian Romances and the Middle Ages | p. 81 |
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | p. 82 |
Sir Orfeo | p. 93 |
Chretien's Lancelot | p. 100 |
Chretien's Yvain | p. 108 |
Chretien and Wolfram's Parzival | p. 119 |
The Quest for the Holy Grail | p. 137 |
Conference of the Birds | p. 155 |
The Renaissance to the Age of Reason | p. 167 |
Spenser's Faerie Queene | p. 168 |
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream | p. 171 |
Folk Ballads | p. 175 |
Paintings and Engravings | p. 178 |
Milton and Marvell | p. 183 |
Racine and Pope | p. 191 |
Fielding's Tom Jones | p. 194 |
The Arabian Nights | p. 210 |
Japanese Journeys and Slave Narratives | p. 232 |
Popol Vuh | p. 238 |
Romanticism to Naturalism | p. 245 |
Folktales | p. 246 |
E.T.A. Hoffman | p. 256 |
Rabindranath Tagore | p. 258 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | p. 262 |
Coleridge | p. 287 |
Herman Melville | p. 290 |
Walt Whitman | p. 308 |
Mark Twain | p. 311 |
Charlotte Bronte | p. 314 |
Ambrose Bierce | p. 333 |
Modernism | p. 341 |
Thomas Mann | p. 342 |
Joseph Conrad | p. 351 |
James Joyce | p. 360 |
D. H. Lawrence | p. 368 |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman | p. 371 |
Jorge Luis Borges | p. 374 |
Charles Williams | p. 384 |
T. H. White | p. 393 |
Saul Bellow | p. 404 |
F. W. Murnau | p. 409 |
Jean Cocteau | p. 413 |
Ingmar Bergman | p. 426 |
Alifa Rifaat | p. 433 |
Black Elk | p. 436 |
Eudora Welty | p. 446 |
Conclusion: Into the Labyrinth | p. 453 |
Works Cited | p. 463 |
Index | p. 479 |
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