Hero Ego In Search Of Self

Author : Judy Anne White
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 082043115X

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Hero-ego in Search of Self by Judy Anne White Pdf

In Hero-Ego in Search of Self, Judy Anne White offers a perceptive explanation for continued interest in the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf. Building upon the earlier work of Jeffery Helterman and John Miles Foley, she argues that the sum of all confrontations between hero and monster in Beowulf equals the process of individual psychological development identified by Carl Jung as individuation. Dr. White's study proposes that the hero's struggle is the universal struggle towards self-knowledge - and that Beowulf thus resonates for the contemporary reader as it did for the poet's original audience.

Author : Jodi-Anne George
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350310063

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Beowulf by Jodi-Anne George Pdf

Of unknown authorship, Beowulf is an Old English epic poem which incites contentious debate and has been endlessly interpreted over the centuries. This Reader's Guide provides a much-needed overview of the large body of Beowulf criticism, moving from 18th century reactions to 21st century responses. Jodi-Ann George: - Charts the changes in critical trends and theoretical approaches applied to the poem. - Includes discussion of J. R. R. Tolkein's pioneering 1936 lecture on Beowulf , and Seamus Heaney's recent translation. - Analyses Beowulf in popular culture, addressing the poem's life in film versions, graphic novels, music and comics. Clear and engaging, this is an indispensable introductory guide to a widely-studied and enigmatic work which continues to fascinate readers everywhere.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110925999

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Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Albrecht Classen Pdf

After an extensive introduction that takes stock of the relevant research literature on Old Age in the Middle Ages and the early modern age, the contributors discuss the phenomenon of old age in many different fields of late antique, medieval, and early modern literature, history, and art history. Both Beowulf and the Hildebrandslied, both Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival and Titurel, both the figure of Merlin and the trans-European tradition of Perceval/Peredur/Parzival, then the figure of the vetula in a variety of medieval French, English, and Spanish texts, and of the Old Man in The Stricker's Daniel, both the treatment of old age in Langland's Piers the Plowman and in Jean Gerson's sermons are dealt with. Other aspects involve late-antique epistolary literature, early modern French farce in light of Disability Studies, the social role of old, impotent men in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Netherlandish paintings, and the scientific discourse of old age and health since the 1500s. The discourse of Old Age proves to have been of central importance throughout the ages, so the critical examination of the issues involved sheds intriguing light on the cultural history from late antiquity to the seventeenth century.

Author : Kathleen Forni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429880353

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Beowulf's Popular Afterlife in Literature, Comic Books, and Film by Kathleen Forni Pdf

Beowulf's presence on the popular cultural radar has increased in the past two decades, coincident with cultural crisis and change. Why? By way of a fusion of cultural studies, adaptation theory, and monster theory, Beowulf's Popular Afterlife examines a wide range of Anglo-American retellings and appropriations found in literary texts, comic books, and film. The most remarkable feature of popular adaptations of the poem is that its monsters, frequently victims of organized militarism, male aggression, or social injustice, are provided with strong motives for their retaliatory brutality. Popular adaptations invert the heroic ideology of the poem, and monsters are not only created by powerful men but are projections of their own pathological behavior. At the same time there is no question that the monsters created by human malfeasance must be eradicated.

Author : R. D. Fulk,Friedrich Klaeber,Robert Dennis Fulk,Robert E. Bjork,John D. Niles
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802098436

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Klaeber's Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg by R. D. Fulk,Friedrich Klaeber,Robert Dennis Fulk,Robert E. Bjork,John D. Niles Pdf

Features an introduction and a commentary that incorporates the scholarship on "Beowulf" that has appeared since 1950. This work includes detailed bibliographic guidance to discussion of textual cruces, as well as to modern and contemporary critical concerns. It also addresses aids to pronunciation and advances in the study of the poem's language.

Author : Katrin Berndt,Lena Steveker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317122111

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Heroism in the Harry Potter Series by Katrin Berndt,Lena Steveker Pdf

Taking up the various conceptions of heroism that are conjured in the Harry Potter series, this collection examines the ways fictional heroism in the twenty-first century challenges the idealized forms of a somewhat simplistic masculinity associated with genres like the epic, romance and classic adventure story. The collection's three sections address broad issues related to genre, Harry Potter's development as the central heroic character and the question of who qualifies as a hero in the Harry Potter series. Among the topics are Harry Potter as both epic and postmodern hero, the series as a modern-day example of psychomachia, the series' indebtedness to the Gothic tradition, Harry's development in the first six film adaptations, Harry Potter and the idea of the English gentleman, Hermione Granger's explicitly female version of heroism, adult role models in Harry Potter, and the complex depictions of heroism exhibited by the series' minor characters. Together, the essays suggest that the Harry Potter novels rely on established generic, moral and popular codes to develop new and genuine ways of expressing what a globalized world has applauded as ethically exemplary models of heroism based on responsibility, courage, humility and kindness.

Author : Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bienkowska,Karen Graham
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848882027

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Monstrous manifestations: Realities and the Imaginings of the Monster by Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bienkowska,Karen Graham Pdf

An enlightening collection of inter-disciplinary research on the multifarious incarnations of the monster, 'Monstrous Manifestations' invites the reader to venture into the deepest anxieties of the human psyche.

Author : Joseph Campbell
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1577314042

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The Hero's Journey by Joseph Campbell Pdf

Joseph Campbell, arguably the greatest mythologist of our time, was certainly one of our greatest storytellers.

Author : Joan Borysenko
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001-03-15
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780759520820

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Guilt is the Teacher, Love is the Lesson by Joan Borysenko Pdf

The author of the bestselling Minding the Body, Mending the Mind, offers a compassionate, healing guide for overcoming the devastating effects of guilt.

Author : Jerry Kroth
Publisher : Genotype
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780936618043

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Psyche's Exile: an empirical odyssey in search of the soul by Jerry Kroth Pdf

Psyche’s Exile: an empirical odyssey in search of the soul. “Psyche” means “soul” in Greek, and “psychology” literally means ‘the study of the soul.’ For over a century American psychology has gone in precisely the opposite direction. Soul = mind, and mind = brain with no exceptions! This reductionist paradigm is challenged in this book as Professor Kroth reviews eight politically incorrect, ‘forbidden’ databases in his empirical pursuit of the immortal soul of the ages: near-death experiences, deathbed visions, precognitive dreams, premonitions, synchronicity, telepathy, states of possession, just to name a few. The journey leads to a fascinating rediscovery of the soul. Reviews “Psyche’s Exile . . is an absolute treasure trove of carefully collected experiential and experimental data spanning the research areas of anthropology, sociology, religion, spirituality, psychology, and physics. Although we are still some human evolutionary time away from experimentally proving the existence of the human soul, there is certainly enough good data available at present to make it a viable working hypothesis. Dr. Kroth is dedicated to his craft as a professional explorer of nature in its many forms. For myself, I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend this book to my scientific colleagues and my friends.” —William A. Tiller, Ph.D., professor of physics: Stanford University; Author of Science and Human Transformation

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 2849 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110215588

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Handbook of Medieval Studies by Albrecht Classen Pdf

This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last decades. The handbook is a reference work which enables the readers to quickly and purposely gain insight into the important research discussions and to inform themselves about the current status of research in the field. The handbook consists of four parts. The first, large section offers articles on all of the main disciplines and discussions of the field. The second section presents articles on the key concepts of modern medieval studies and the debates therein. The third section is a lexicon of the most important text genres of the Middle Ages. The fourth section provides an international bio-bibliographical lexicon of the most prominent medievalists in all disciplines. A comprehensive bibliography rounds off the compendium. The result is a reference work which exhaustively documents the current status of research in medieval studies and brings the disciplines and experts of the field together.

Author : Michael Faust
Publisher : Magus Books
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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How to Become a Hero by Michael Faust Pdf

Everyone can become a hero. We have an inbuilt program for it, but few choose to activate it or know where to begin. Learn about your inner hero in terms of Jungian and Freudian psychology, creative writing theory, sympathetic magic, NLP, Nietzsche and existentialism. En route, you will discover the horrors of the ultimate jail - the Panopticon. You will stumble through Derrida's method of deconstruction and learn if you are living in bad faith. Is "The Matrix" the ultimate hero tale, and Neo the supreme hero? How does Bicameralism, Julian Jaynes's theory that gods once "lived" in the right hemisphere of the human brain fit in with the hero archetype? What is the tragic tale of the Lady of Shalott?

Author : Scott P Detisch
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814644935

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From Hero to Servant to Mystic by Scott P Detisch Pdf

From Hero to Servant to Mystic addresses both the initial and ongoing formation of priests by tracing three significant stages in how their spiritual lives unfold. Fr. Scott Detisch offers seminarians, priests, spiritual directors, and clergy personnel directors a way of understanding the whole gamut of spiritual growth and development in priests by focusing on three major clusters of energies within men—the Hero, the Servant, and the Mystic. By recognizing the difficulties that may arise within the inner life and outer world of a priest, Detisch offers helpful methods for navigating through those challenging periods. By applying these energies to their spiritual lives, priests will experience a different form of relationship with the person of Christ—the Hero, who offers his life for Christ; the Servant, who ministers with Christ; and the Mystic, who lives his life in Christ.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : English philology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132669271

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JEGP, Journal of English and Germanic Philology by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Carino
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-19
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0786418516

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Baseball/Literature/Culture by Peter Carino Pdf

Since 1995, the Indiana State University Conference on Baseball in Literature and American Culture has provided a venue for scholars to present their research on baseball as literary subject matter and cultural institution. Nineteen essays presented at the 2002 and 2003 ISU conferences are published in this work. The essays demonstrate that baseball continues to engage scholars like no other sport, despite the game's supposed loss of stature as the national game. "A Field of Questions: W.P. Kinsella comes to Ithaca," reveals Kinsella as baseball fan and baseball writer. "'You don't play the angles, you're a sap': John Sayles, Eliot Asinof, Baseball Labor, and Chicago in 1919" examines Sayles' Eight Men Out in the context of both Asinof's historical account of the fix and Sayles' earlier and openly labor-oriented film Maetwan. "Is Baseball an American Religion?" considers three codified, sociological definitions of religion and demonstrates that to claim baseball is an American religion requires more than just a strong attraction to the game. "Baseball Immortals: Character and Performance On and Off the Field" analyzes how character and performance impact fan and media perceptions as well as in terms of a player's candidacy for the Hall of Fame. These are just a few of the essays, which cover a broad range of topics and take a variety of approaches to those topics.