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Author : Theodore L. Gross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Heroic Ideal in American Literature written by Theodore L. Gross and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. Gregory Kendrick
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786457511
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Heroic Ideal written by M. Gregory Kendrick and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : S. Halldorson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230609783
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Hero in Contemporary American Fiction written by S. Halldorson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-12-09 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out to write nothing short of a new theory of the heroic for today's world. It delves into the "why" of the hero as a natural companion piece to the "how" of the hero as written by Northrop Frye and Joseph Campbell over half a century ago. The novels of Saul Bellow and Don DeLillo serve as an anchor to the theory as it challenges our notions of what is heroic about nymphomaniacs, Holocaust survivors, spurious academics, cult followers, terrorists, celebrities, photographers and writers of novels who all attempt to claim the right to be "hero."
Author : Theodore L. Gross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Heroic Ideal in American Literature written by Theodore L. Gross and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Kelly
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441173749
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book American Fiction in Transition written by Adam Kelly and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Henry I. Christ
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781567650297
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Heroes and Villains in American Literature written by Henry I. Christ and published by . This book was released on 1995-11-09 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents heroism vs. villainy ( and points in between) in a rich array of literary types.
Author : Dr. K. Madhu Murthy
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387373846
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Ernest Hemingway's Code Hero in Pursuit of Self written by Dr. K. Madhu Murthy and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William L. Van Deburg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226847187
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Black Camelot written by William L. Van Deburg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135238987
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book European Heroes written by Pierre Lanfranchi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Pamela A. Boker
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814712282
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Grief Taboo in American Literature written by Pamela A. Boker and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : D. Simmons
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230612520
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Anti-Hero in the American Novel written by D. Simmons and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-05-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Edmund S. Morgan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393074260
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (742 download)
Download or read book American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America written by Edmund S. Morgan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-05-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A wise, humane and beautifully written book." —Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal From the best-selling author of Benjamin Franklin comes this remarkable work that will help redefine our notion of American heroism. Americans have long been obsessed with their heroes, but the men and women dramatically portrayed here are not celebrated for the typical banal reasons contained in Founding Fathers hagiography. Effortlessly challenging those who persist in revering the American history status quo and its tropes and falsehoods, Morgan, now ninety-three, continues to believe that the past is just not the way it seems.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book IJAS Reviews written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gregory E. Rutledge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136194835
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book The Epic Trickster in American Literature written by Gregory E. Rutledge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Andrew E. Mathis
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786411719
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (117 download)
Download or read book The King Arthur Myth in Modern American Literature written by Andrew E. Mathis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2001-11-16 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In American fiction, two forms of the Arthurian myth are commonly found: the use of the myth for political reasons, and the use of the myth for the continuation of an aesthetic tradition that can be traced back to the earliest use of the Arthurian cycle by writers in the British Isles. This work traces the use of the legend from Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court to Donald Barthelme's novel The King. It discusses how Twain used the myth to take a stand against England, how it served cultural and aesthetic purposes in John Steinbeck's writing, how Raymond Chandler used it in complex texts with less obvious Arthurian allusions that carried strong cultural and even political associations, how John Gardner used aspects of the myth to embellish already existing narrative structures and to underscore philosophic debates, and how Donald Barthelme suggests the continuing interest of American writers in the Arthurian legend today in his novels. Also discussed is the effect of World War II on American literature and the Arthurian myth and the Camelot image surrounding the Kennedys.
Author : Ted Gross
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1503525899
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Fidelity written by Ted Gross and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fidelity is a vivid description of a man's conflict between marriage and work against the backdrop of grand opera. Mark Feldman has a supportive wife, who wants him to succeed in his new career as vice president of development for the Chicago Grand Opera, but as she witnesses his passion become dangerously intense under the influence of the mesmerizing visionary, Gloria Winthrop, she loses faith in him and returns to New York to restore the career she has forsaken. Mark's own fidelity to marriage is tested as he must choose between a brilliant career and a durable marriage. This core conflict is set again the seductive, glamorous world of grand opera.
Author : John L. Somer
Publisher : Lawrence : Regents Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book American & British Literature, 1945-1975 written by John L. Somer and published by Lawrence : Regents Press of Kansas. This book was released on 1980 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
