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1.

The Hero in French Romantic Literature » Read Now
by George Ross Ridge. 148 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...French Romantic Literature The Hero in French Romantic...mystery. Hence The Hero in French Romantic Literature is intended to...self-consciousness of man in society...
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The Hero in French Decadent Literature » Read Now
by George Ross Ridge. 195 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...French Decadent Literature The Hero in French Decadent...man, appearing in literature as the hero, evolves different...throughout the literature of the epoch...metaphysical...
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The Fatal Hero: Diana, Deity of the Moon, as an Archetype of the Modern Hero in English Literature » Read Now
by Gil Haroian-Guerin. 266 pgs.

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...Archetype of the Modern Hero in English Literature PETER LANG New York...archetype of the modern hero in English literature/Gil Haroian-Guerin. p...archetype of the modern...
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The Heroine in Western Literature: The Archetype and Her Reemergence in Modern Prose » Read Now
by Meredith A. Powers. 234 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Joseph Campbell Hero with a Thousand...activities of the heroine in literature. Campbell goes...narrative of Western literature. She prevails by...finds her voice in...
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Mythology: The Voyage of the Hero » Read Now
by David Adams Leeming. 270 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

Leeming illustrates the various stages or rites of passage of the mythic universal hero, from birth to childhood, through trial and quest, death, descent, rebirth, and ascension. The arrangement of texts by themes such as "Childhood, Initiation and Divine Signs," "The Descent to the Underworld," and...
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Leeming illustrates the various stages or rites of passage of the mythic universal hero, from birth to childhood, through trial and quest, death, descent, rebirth, and ascension. The arrangement of texts by themes such as "Childhood, Initiation and Divine Signs," "The Descent to the Underworld," and "Resurrection and Rebirth" strip mythic characters of their many national and cultural "masks" to reveal their archetypal aspects. Real figures, including Jesus and Mohammed, are also included underlining the theory that myths are real and can be applied to real life. This edition is updated to include additional heroine myths, as well as Navajo, Indonesian, Indian, Chinese, and African tales.
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The Ulysses Theme: A Study in the Adaptability of a Traditional Hero » Read Now
by W. B. Stanford. 296 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...European literature. And a few...traditional hero, it may be...variation in the development...an ancient hero, a new major figure in the annals of European literature, may...
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The Byronic Hero in Film, Fiction and Television » Read Now
by Atara Stein. 245 pgs.

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The Unheroic Hero in the Novels of Stendhal, Balzac, and Flaubert » Read Now
by Raymond Giraud. 248 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...effect such feelings have produced in literature is far richer and far more interesting...character he assigned to a bourgeois hero in his novel depended not only on...and...
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The Hero in Eclipse in Victorian Fiction » Read Now
by Mario Praz, Angus Davidson. 482 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...II. The Decline of the Hero Charles Dickens...Patmores The Angel in the House 413...taste manifests itself in literature before it makes its appearance...products of that...
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The Alienated Hero in Modern French Drama » Read Now
by Robert Emmet Jones. 138 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...convinced of this. Each hero in tragic literature rejects his society or...the modern dramatic literature of exile. As a tragedy...failure. If Alvaro lives in solitude...
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The Hero and the Sage: Elizabeth Barrett's Sonnets "To George Sand" in Victorian Context, in Victorian Poetry » Read Now
by Margaret Morlier. 14 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Influence and Reputation in Nineteenth-Century...Elaine Showalter, A Literature of Their Own: British...Mathias, Pursuits of Literature: A Satirical Poem in Four Decalogues...
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The Worthlessness of Duncan Heyward: A Waverley Hero in America, in Studies in the Novel » Read Now
by Ian Dennis. 16 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...giving their children the name of the Indian hero? Is it merely admiration, or might there...New York Press, 1985). Page references in this note are to this edition. (16)...
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The Anguish of God's Lonely Men: Dostoevsky's Underground Man and Scorsese's Travis Bickle, in Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature » Read Now
by Andrew J. Swensen. 21 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...recoiling in the same moment, defines this "hero" by his or her unsettling ambivalence. We are drawn to the quest for ideals in an age when ideals have been trampled...a...
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Baudelaire's Tragic Hero: A Study of the Architecture of Les Fleurs Du Mal » Read Now
by D. J. Mossop. 254 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...why not both at once, as are all the other heroes of literature and drama? In this case, as in others, admission of ignorance may possibly further knowledge. To free the...
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On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History (1888) » Read Now
by Thomas Carlyle. 288 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...known. We have chosen as the first Hero in our series, Odin the central...self ceases. I am well aware that in these days Hero-worship, the thing I call Hero...out round...