The New Heroines

Author : Katheryn Wright
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216122722

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The New Heroines by Katheryn Wright Pdf

This book explores how the next generation of teen and young adult heroines in popular culture are creating a new feminist ideal for the 21st century. Representations of a teenage girl who is unique or special occur again and again in coming-of-age stories. It's an irresistible concept: the heroine who seems just like every other, but under the surface, she has the potential to change the world. This book examines the cultural significance of teen and young adult female characters—the New Heroines—in popular culture. The book addresses a wide range of examples primarily from the past two decades, with several chapters focusing on a specific heroic figure in popular culture. In addition, the author offers a comparative analysis between the "New Woman" figure from the late 19th and early 20th century and the New Heroine in the 21st century. Readers will understand how representations of teenage girls in fiction and nonfiction are positioned as heroic because of their ability to find out about themselves by connecting with other people, their environment, and technology.

Author : Helena Bassil-Morozow
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000889130

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The New Heroines in Film and Television by Helena Bassil-Morozow Pdf

This thought-provoking volume offers an overview of contemporary representations of prominent female characters as they appear in an array of moving-image narratives from a Jungian and post-Jungian perspective. Applying a theoretical frame that is richly informed by the Jungian and post-Jungian concepts of persona, individuation, and archetypes, works including Fleabag (2016-2019), Ladybird (2017), and The Queen’s Gambit (2020) as well as Disney productions such as Brave (2012), Moana (2016), and Frozen (2013), are contextualized and discussed alongside their non-screen precedents and contemporaries, including myths, fairy tales, and works of literature, to closely examine new patterns of the female journey. This book identifies how young female characters rebel against the female persona of previous eras through the trickster, the shadow, and other archetypes, comparing the contemporary female protagonist with her predecessors to assess the new paths, roles, and milestones available to her. Examining the construction of the female persona across time periods and mediums in an accessibly written yet academic style, this book is the first of its kind. With a fulsome account of the progressive developments in entertainment media and Jungian thought, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of film, as well as anyone with an interest in analytical psychology and wider feminist issues in contemporary culture.

Author : Pat Browne
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0879724099

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Heroines of Popular Culture by Pat Browne Pdf

From life and literature come the heroines of this volume. The essays demonstrate that women can fit the role of hero as defined by Joseph Campbell: "A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder, fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won, the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man." Contributors to this volume cover a wide range of heroic women.

Author : Charles Edgar Lewis Wingate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Actresses
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011755449

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Shakespeare's Heroines on the Stage by Charles Edgar Lewis Wingate Pdf

Author : Karen M. Walsh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216088820

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Geek Heroines by Karen M. Walsh Pdf

Geek Heroines not only tells the stories of fictional and real women, but also explores how they represent changes in societal views of women, including women of color and the LGBTQ community. Geek culture stems from science and technology and so is frequently associated with science fiction. In the beginnings of science fiction, the genre was tied to "magic" and dystopic outcomes; however, as technology turned "geek" into "chic," geek culture extended to include comics, video games, board games, movie, books, and television. Geek culture now revolves around fictional characters about whom people are passionate. Geek Heroines seeks to encourage women and young girls in pursuing their passions by providing them with female role models in the form of diverse heroines within geek culture. Carefully curated to incorporate LGBTQ+ identities as well as racial diversity, the book defines geek culture, explains geek culture's sometimes problematic nature, and provides detailed fiction and nonfiction biographies that highlight women in this area. Entries include writers and directors as well as characters from comic books, science fiction, speculative fiction, television, movies, and video games.

Author : Dr Jennifer Camden
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409475743

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Secondary Heroines in Nineteenth-Century British and American Novels by Dr Jennifer Camden Pdf

Taking up works by Samuel Richardson, James Fenimore Cooper, Sir Walter Scott, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick, among others, Jennifer B. Camden examines the role of female characters who, while embodying the qualities associated with heroines, fail to achieve this status in the story. These "secondary heroines," often the friend or sister of the primary heroine, typically disappear from the action of the novel as the courtship plot progresses, only to return near the conclusion of the action with renewed demands on the reader's attention. Accounting for this persistent pattern, Camden suggests, reveals the cultural work performed by these unusual figures in the early history of the novel. Because she is often a far more vivid character than the heroine of the marriage plot, the secondary heroine inevitably engages the reader's interest in her plight. That the narrative apparently seeks to suppress her creates tension and points to the secondary heroine as a site of contested identity who represents an ideology of womanhood and nationhood at odds with the national ideals represented by the primary heroine, whom the reader is asked to embrace. In showing how the anxiety produced by these ideals is displaced onto the secondary heroine, Camden's study represents an important intervention into the ways in which early novels use character to further ideologies of race, class, sex, and gender.

Author : Seymour Brody
Publisher : Frederick Fell Publishers
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Jewish women
ISBN : 0883910268

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Jewish Heroes & Heroines of America by Seymour Brody Pdf

Documents with 150 stories and illustrations how Jews have made heroic contributions in every facet of American industry and culture.

Author : Jessica A. Westerhold
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501770371

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Ovid's Tragic Heroines by Jessica A. Westerhold Pdf

Ovid's Tragic Heroines expands our understanding of Ovid's incorporation of Greek generic codes and the tragic heroines, Phaedra and Medea, while offering a new perspective on the Roman poet's persistent interest in these two characters and their paradigms. Ovid presents these two Attic tragic heroines as symbols of different passions that are defined by the specific combination of their gender and generic provenance. Their failure to be understood and their subsequent punishment are constructed as the result of their female "nature," and are generically marked as "tragic." Ovid's masculine poetic voice, by contrast, is given free rein to oscillate and play with poetic possibilities. Jessica A. Westerhold focuses on select passages from the poems Ars Amatoria, Heroides, and Metamorphoses. Building on existing scholarship, she analyzes the dynamic nature of generic categories and codes in Ovid's poetry, especially the interplay of elegy and epic. Further, her analysis of Ovid's reception applies the idea of the abject to elucidate Ovid's process of constructing gender and genre in his poetry. Ovid's Tragic Heroines incorporates established theories of the performativity of sex, gender, and kinship roles to understand the continued maintenance of the normative and abject subject positions Ovid's poetry creates. The resulting analysis reveals how Ovid's Phaedras and Medeas offer alternatives both to traditional gender roles and to material appropriate to a poem's genre, ultimately using the tragic code to introduce a new perspective to epic and elegy.

Author : Martha Moffitt Peacock
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004432154

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Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives by Martha Moffitt Peacock Pdf

A novel and female empowering interpretive approach to these artistic archetypes in her analysis of Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age.

Author : Jennifer Hargreaves
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Feminist theory
ISBN : 0415228484

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Heroines of Sport by Jennifer Hargreaves Pdf

This text looks closely at different groups of women who have become sporting heroines. It focuses on five specific groups of women from places in the world: South African women; Muslim women, Aboriginal women, and lesbian and disabled women.

Author : Pamela L. Cheek
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812296365

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Heroines and Local Girls by Pamela L. Cheek Pdf

Over the course of the long eighteenth century, a network of some fifty women writers, working in French, English, Dutch, and German, staked out a lasting position in the European literary field. These writers were multilingual and lived for many years outside of their countries of origin, translated and borrowed from each others' works, attended literary circles and salons, and fashioned a transnational women's literature characterized by highly recognizable codes. Drawing on a literary geography of national types, women writers across Western Europe read, translated, wrote, and rewrote stories about exceptional young women, literary heroines who transcend the gendered destiny of their distinctive cultural and national contexts. These transcultural heroines struggle against the cultural constraints determining the sexualized fates of local girls. In Heroines and Local Girls, Pamela L. Cheek explores the rise of women's writing as a distinct, transnational category in Britain and Europe between 1650 and 1810. Starting with an account of a remarkable tea party that brought together Frances Burney, Sophie von La Roche, and Marie Elisabeth de La Fite in conversation about Stéphanie de Genlis, she excavates a complex community of European and British women authors. In chapters that incorporate history, network theory, and feminist literary history, she examines the century-and-a-half literary lineage connecting Madame de Maintenon to Mary Wollstonecraft, including Charlotte Lennox and Françoise de Graffigny and their radical responses to sexual violence. Neither simply a reaction to, nor collusion with, patriarchal and national literary forms but, rather, both, women's writing offered an invitation to group membership through a literary project of self-transformation. In so doing, argues Cheek, women's writing was the first modern literary category to capitalize transnationally on the virtue of identity, anticipating the global literary marketplace's segmentation of affinity-based reading publics, and continuing to define women's writing to this day.

Author : Graham Seal,Kim Kennedy White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781440838613

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Folk Heroes and Heroines around the World by Graham Seal,Kim Kennedy White Pdf

This comprehensive collection of folk hero tales builds on the success of the first edition by providing readers with expanded contextual information on story characters from the Americas to Zanzibar. Despite the tremendous differences between cultures and ethnicities across the world, all of them have folk heroes and heroines—real and imagined—that have been represented in tales, legends, songs, and verse. These stories persist through time and space, over generations, even through migrations to new countries and languages. This encyclopedia is a one-stop source for broad coverage of the world's folk hero tales. Geared toward high school and early college readers, the book opens with an overview of folk heroes and heroines that provides invaluable context and then presents a chronology. The book is divided into two main sections: the first provides entries on the major types and themes; the second addresses specific folk tale characters organized by continent with folk hero entries organized alphabetically. Each entry provides cross references as well as a list of further readings. Continent sections include a bibliography for additional research. The book concludes with an alphabetical list of heroes and an index of hero types.

Author : Patricia Monaghan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Goddesses
ISBN : UOM:49015003423135

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The New Book of Goddesses & Heroines by Patricia Monaghan Pdf

Includes information on "more than 1,500 goddesses from Australia, Africa, North and South America, Asia, Europe."--Cover.

Author : Charles Carlton Ayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Women in literature
ISBN : UCAL:B4061965

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The Tragic Heroines of Pierre Corneille by Charles Carlton Ayer Pdf

Author : Monika Czekanowska-Gutman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004472662

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Reclaiming Biblical Heroines by Monika Czekanowska-Gutman Pdf

This book examines the iconography of Judith, Esther, and the Shulamite in the last decades of the nineteenth and the first two decades of the twentieth century in the works of the Polish-Jewish artists.