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Author : Theodore L. Gross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035037907
Author : M. Gregory Kendrick
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786457519
The word "hero" seems in its present usage, an all-purpose moniker applied to everyone from Medal of Honor recipients to celebrities to comic book characters. This book explores the Western idea of the hero, from its initial use in ancient Greece, where it identified demigods or aristocratic, mortal warriors, through today. Sections examine the concept of the hero as presented in the ancient, medieval, and modern worlds. Special attention is paid to particular heroic types, such as warriors, martyrs, athletes, knights, saints, scientists, rebels, secret servicemen, and even anti-heroes. This book also reconstructs how definitions of heroism have been inextricably linked to shifts in Western thinking about religion, social relations, political authority, and ethical conduct. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author : Theodore L. Gross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015002671439
Author : Adam Kelly
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441173744
American Fiction in Transition is a study of the observer-hero narrative, a highly significant but critically neglected genre of the American novel. Through the lens of this transitional genre, the book explores the 1990s in relation to debates about the end of postmodernism, and connects the decade to other transitional periods in US literature. Novels by four major contemporary writers are examined: Philip Roth, Paul Auster, E. L. Doctorow and Jeffrey Eugenides. Each novel has a similar structure: an observer-narrator tells the story of an important person in his life who has died. But each story is equally about the struggle to tell the story, to find adequate means to narrate the transitional quality of the hero's life. In playing out this narrative struggle, each novel thereby addresses the broader problem of historical transition, a problem that marks the legacy of the postmodern era in American literature and culture.
Author : Dr. K. Madhu Murthy
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781387373840
Author : Henry I. Christ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995-11-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1567650295
This book presents heroism vs. villainy ( and points in between) in a rich array of literary types.
Author : William L. Van Deburg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226847184
In the wake of the Kennedy era, a new kind of ethnic hero emerged within African-American popular culture. Uniquely suited to the times, burgeoning pop icons projected the values and beliefs of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, and reflected both the possibility and the actuality of a rapidly changing American landscape. In Black Camelot, William Van Deburg examines the dynamic rise of these new black champions, the social and historical contexts in which they flourished, and their powerful impact on the African-American community. "Van Deburg manages the enviable feat of writing with flair within a standardized academic framework, covering politics, social issues and entertainment with equal aplomb."—Jonathan Pearl, Jazz Times "[A] fascinating, thorough account of how African-American icons of the 1960s and '70s have changed the course of American history. . . . An in-depth, even-tempered analysis. . . . Van Deburg's witty, lively and always grounded style entertains while it instructs."—Publishers Weekly
Author : Pierre Lanfranchi,Richard Holt,J A Mangan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781135238988
Historians of popular culture have recently been addressing the role of myth, and now it is time that social historians of sport also examined it. The contributors to this collection of essays explore the symbolic meanings that have been attached to sport in Europe by considering some of the mythic heroes who have dominated the sporting landscapes of their own countries. The ambition is to understand what these icons stood for in the eyes of those who watched or read about these vessels into which poured all manner of gender, class and patriotic expectations.
Author : D. Simmons
Publisher : Springer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230612525
The Anti-Hero in the American Novel rereads major texts of the 1960s to offer an innovative re-evaluation of a set of canonical novels that moves beyond entrenched post-modern and post-structural interpretations towards an appraisal which emphasizes the specifically humanist and idealist elements of these works.
Author : Pamela A. Boker
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814712283
Boker (English and comparative literature, Columbia U.) examines the "prolonged adolescence" of the American male canon, focusing in depth on the work of Melville, Twain, and Hemingway. Boker reveals in these authors' lives and fiction a world of perpetual adolescence, repressed grief, and repudiation of feminine identification. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012040353
Author : Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317206590
First published in 1988, this book aims to provide keys to the study of Gothicism in British and American literature. It gathers together much material that had not been cited in previous works of this kind and secondary works relevant to literary Gothicism — biographies, memoirs and graphic arts. Part one cites items pertaining to significant authors of Gothic works and part two consists of subject headings, offering information about broad topics that evolve from or that have been linked with Gothicism. Three indexes are also provided to expedite searches for the contents of the entries. This book will be of interest to students of literature.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015049424016
Author : Michael Modarelli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429785603
This book traces the myth of Anglo-Saxonism as it crosses from Britain to the New World as both a cultural construct and ideological nation-building tool. Through extensive investigations of both early American and English cultural attitudes toward Anglo-Saxonism and similar texts, the book advances the claim that the ways in which Anglo-Saxon authors envisioned history as unfolding becomes an important ideological model for later New World conceptions of historical and national identity. From this beginning, the book follows the influence of this adopted American Anglo-Saxonism in early American literature and the socio-cultural implications that follow upon this influence.
Author : Gregory E. Rutledge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136194832
Just as Africa and the West have traditionally fit into binaries of Darkness/Enlightenment, Savage/Modern, Ugly/Beautiful, and Ritual/Art, among others, much of Western cultural production rests upon the archetypal binary of Trickster/Epic, with trickster aesthetics and commensurate cultural forms characterizing Africa. Challenging this binary and the exceptionalism that underlies anti-hegemonic efforts even today, this book begins with the scholarly foundations that mapped out African trickster continuities in the United States and excavated the aesthetics of traditional African epic performances. Rutledge locates trickster-like capacities within the epic hero archetype (the "epic trickster" paradigm) and constructs an Homeric Diaspora, which is to say that the modern Homeric performance foundation lies at an absolute time and distance away from the ancient storytelling performance needed to understand the cautionary aesthetic inseparable from epic potential. As traditional epic performances demonstrate, unchecked epic trickster dynamism anticipates not only brutal imperialism and creative diversity, but the greatest threat to everyone, an eco-apocalypse. Relying upon the preeminent scholarship on African-American trickster-heroes, traditional African heroic performances, and cultural studies approaches to Greco-Roman epics, Rutledge traces the epic trickster aesthetic through three seminal African-American novels keenly attuned to the American Homeric Diaspora: Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition, Richard Wright’s Native Son, and Toni Morrison’s Beloved.