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The Hero Strikes Back

Author : Moira J. Moore
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440625085
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Hero Strikes Back written by Moira J. Moore and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-08-29 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a realm beset by natural disasters, only the magical abilities of the bonded Pairs—Source and Shield—make the land habitable and keep the citizenry safe. The ties that bind them are far beyond the relationships between lovers or kin—and last their entire lives… Whether they like it or not. The weather in the city of High Scape is off the charts. It’s snowing in the middle of summer, and the townsfolk are desperate for Shield Lee Mallorough and Source Shintaro Karish to fix it—which they can’t do. But try explaining that to an angry mob… Meanwhile, there’s a crazed killer targeting aristocrats. Karish has forfeited the Dukedom of Westsea to continue working as a Source, but Lee fears that technicality won’t matter to the murderer. It certainly doesn’t matter to Karish’s mother, who’s bound and determined that he take the title. Only by working together will Lee and Karish be able to figure out the weather, catch the killer before it’s too late, and most importantly…get rid of Karish’s mother.

Resenting the Hero

Author : Moira J. Moore
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440622825
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Resenting the Hero written by Moira J. Moore and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a realm beset by natural disasters, only the magical abilities of the bonded Pairs—Source and Shield—make the land habitable and keep the citizenry safe. The ties that bind them are far beyond the relationships between lovers or kin—and last their entire lives… Whether they like it or not. Since she was a child, Dunleavy Mallorough has been nurturing her talents as a Shield, preparing for her day of bonding. Unfortunately, fate decrees Lee’s partner to be the legendary, handsome, and unbearably self-assured Lord Shintaro Karish. Sure, he cuts a fine figure with his aristocratic airs and undeniable courage. But Karish’s popularity and notoriety—in bed and out—make him the last Source Lee ever wanted to be stuck with. The duo is assigned to High Scape, a city so besieged by disaster that seven bonded pairs are needed to combat it. But when an inexplicable force strikes down every other Source and Shield, Lee and Karish must put aside their differences in order to defeat something even more unnatural than their reluctant affections for each other…

The Hero's Journey

Author : Joseph Campbell
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 9781577314042
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Hero's Journey written by Joseph Campbell and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2003 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Campbell, arguably the greatest mythologist of our time, was certainly one of our greatest storytellers.

The Hero Reloaded

Author : Rosario López Gregoris
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027261555
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book The Hero Reloaded written by Rosario López Gregoris and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was a hero in Classical Antiquity? Why is it that their characteristics have transcended chronological and cultural barriers while they are still role models in our days? How have their features changed to be embodied by comic superheroes and film? How is their essence vulgarized and turned into a mass consumption product? What has happened with their literary and artistic representation along centuries of elitist Western culture? This book aims at posing these and other questions about heroes, allowing us to open a cultural reflection over the role of the classical world in the present, its meaning in mass media, and the capacity of the Greek and Roman civilizations to dialogue with the modern world. This dialogue offers a glimpse into modern cultural necessities and tendencies which can be seen in several aspects, such as the hero’s vulnerability, the archetype’s banalization, the possibility to extend the heroic essence to individuals in search of identities – vital as well as gender or class identities. In some products (videogames, heavy metal music) our research enables a deeper understanding of the hero’s more obvious characteristics, such as their physical and moral strength. All these tendencies – contemporary and consumable, contradictory with one another, yet vigorous above all – acquire visibility by means of a polyhedral vehicle which is rich in possibilities of rereading and reworking: the Greco-Roman hero. In such a virtual and postmodern world as the one we inhabit, it comes not without surprise that we still resort to an idea like the hero, which is as old as the West.

Heroes Return

Author : Moira J. Moore
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0441019528
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Heroes Return written by Moira J. Moore and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: View our feature on Moria Moore's Heroes Return Being a hero is a recession-proof job—from the author of Heroes at Risk. The Emperor has personally selected Shield Lee Mallorough and Source Shintaro Karish to protect the duchy of Westsea-Taro's ancestral lands. But Westsea is suffering from deadly earthquakes that resist Lee and Taro's magic and political unrest that is stoked by their arrival.

Star Wars and the Hero's Journey

Author : Valerie Estelle Frankel
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476643792
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Star Wars and the Hero's Journey written by Valerie Estelle Frankel and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original Star Wars trilogy famously follows Joseph Campbell's model for the hero's journey, making Luke Skywalker's story the new hero quest for a modern age. With the nine-plus film saga complete, however, new story patterns have emerged as the hero's journey is imagined over and over for characters of different ages, genders, and backgrounds. The prequels offer the plot arc of the villain's journey through Anakin. Leia and Padme, while damsels in the men's story, break out to undergo their own ordeals. The heroine's journey is exemplified by Rey and Jyn. Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Vader must accept the loss of power and fade into spirit guardians, perpetuating the lifecycle. By the sequel era, the original trio become mentors to the younger generation and finally must do the same. Meanwhile, the Mandalorian explores a different form of the quest as he transforms from immature warrior to patriarch. This book tracks the journeys of over 20 characters throughout the franchise.

The Hero's Journey in Film

Author : Richard Dance
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book The Hero's Journey in Film written by Richard Dance and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hero's Journey in Film interprets twelve Hollywood movies in a mythical context, using Joseph Campbell's model of the hero's journey: Departure-Initiation-Return. It also weaves in concepts from the related fields of archetypal psychology and perennial philosophy. The book is highly useful . . . • As a text for teaching classes on the hero's journey model, appropriate for advanced high school, undergraduate, graduate, corporate leadership, and continuing education programs. • For writers, screenwriters, and others generally interested in stories portraying the stages of the hero quest. • For counselors, therapists, psychologists, and others in the helping professions who need a fresh approach to working with clients in the midst of major life change. • For anyone needing a practical guide to personal growth, self-discovery, and spiritual transformation, beyond the confines of traditional counseling and religion.

The Epic Hero

Author : Dean A. Miller
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801862397
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book The Epic Hero written by Dean A. Miller and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2000-03-02 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Odysseus to Aeneas, from Beowulf to King Arthur, from the Mahâbhârata to the Ossetian "Nart" tales, epic heroes and their stories have symbolized the power of the human imagination. Drawing on diverse disciplines including classics, anthropology, psychology, and literary studies, this product of twenty years' scholarship provides a detailed typology of the hero in Western myth: birth, parentage, familial ties, sexuality, character, deeds, death, and afterlife. Dean A. Miller examines the place of the hero in the physical world (wilderness, castle, prison cell) and in society (among monarchs, fools, shamans, rivals, and gods). He looks at the hero in battle and quest; at his political status; and at his relationship to established religion. The book spans Western epic traditions, including Greek, Roman, Nordic, and Celtic, as well as the Indian and Persian legacies. A large section of the book also examines the figures who modify or accompany the hero: partners, helpers (animals and sometimes monsters), foes, foils, and even antitypes. The Epic Hero provides a comprehensive and provocative guide to epic heroes, and to the richly imaginative tales they inhabit.

Space Hero’s Guide to Glory

Author : Phil Hornshaw
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1492603015
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Space Hero’s Guide to Glory written by Phil Hornshaw and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think every space hero was born with an army of laser-firing minions? Think it's easy to maintain a healthy rivalry with your archnemesis? Think again! Intergalactic News Flash: Even a rookie like yourself can become the next great Space Hero. But there's more to it than seducing alien babes or swapping one-liners with our first mate. How will you combat the evils of helmet hair? Can you win a no-win scenario? If you want to survive the 'Verse, you've got a lot to learn, Cadet. The Space Hero's Guide to Glory is a step-by-step illustrated guide that will take you from home world half-wit to interstellar idol. Filled with lessons gleaned from your legendary predecessors—including Han Solo, Captain Kirk, and Kara Thrace—you'll learn the difference between laser and phaser, how to assemble a crew of brilliant misfits, and the basic piloting skills to avoid warping your starship straight into a black hole. So suit up and get reading, Cadet. Space needs its next Space Hero!

Heroes Return

Author : Moira J. Moore
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101457074
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Heroes Return written by Moira J. Moore and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: View our feature on Moria Moore's Heroes Return Being a hero is a recession-proof job—from the author of Heroes at Risk. The Emperor has personally selected Shield Lee Mallorough and Source Shintaro Karish to protect the duchy of Westsea-Taro's ancestral lands. But Westsea is suffering from deadly earthquakes that resist Lee and Taro's magic and political unrest that is stoked by their arrival.

The Hero and the Perennial Journey Home in American Film

Author : Susan Mackey-Kallis
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812200136
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Hero and the Perennial Journey Home in American Film written by Susan Mackey-Kallis and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contemporary America, myths find expression primarily in film. What's more, many of the highest-grossing American movies of the past several decades have been rooted in one of the most fundamental mythic narratives, the hero quest. Why is the hero quest so persistently renewed and retold? In what ways does this universal myth manifest itself in American cinema? And what is the significance of the popularity of these modern myths? The Hero and the Perennial Journey Home in American Film by Susan Mackey-Kallis is an exploration of the appeal of films that recreate and reinterpret this mythic structure. She closely analyzes such films as E.T., the Star Wars trilogy, It's a Wonderful Life, The Wizard of Oz, The Lion King, Field of Dreams, The Piano, Thelma and Louise, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Elements of the quest mythology made popular by Joseph Campbell, Homer's Odyssey, the perennial philosophy of Aldous Huxley, and Jungian psychology all contribute to the compelling interpretive framework in which Mackey-Kallis crafts her study. She argues that the purpose of the hero quest is not limited to the discovery of some boon or Holy Grail, but also involves finding oneself and finding a home in the universe. The home that is sought is simultaneously the literal home from which the hero sets out and the terminus of the personal growth he or she undergoes during the journey back. Thus the quest, Mackey-Kallis asserts, is an outward journey into the world of action and events which eventually requires a journey inward if the hero is to grow, and ultimately necessitates a journey homeward if the hero is to understand the grail and share it with the culture at large. Finally, she examines the value of mythic criticism and addresses questions about myth currently being debated in the field of communication studies.

Star Wars

Author : Mary S. Henderson
Publisher : Spectra
ISBN 13 : 0553378104
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book Star Wars written by Mary S. Henderson and published by Spectra. This book was released on 1997 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The companion to the Star wars exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum explores the mythology used as the basis for the Star wars movie trilogy

In the Night In the Dark

Author : Roger Johnson
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1780920520
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book In the Night In the Dark written by Roger Johnson and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of phantoms, demons and alien gods, including all the stories from the out-of-print collection A Ghostly Crew: Tales from the Endeavour, winner of the Dracula Societys Children of the Night Award for 2001

Heroes at Risk

Author : Moira J. Moore
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101138955
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Heroes at Risk written by Moira J. Moore and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shield Lee Mallorough and her Source Shintaro Karish have returned to High Scape. It?s bad enough the townspeople are robbing tombs for ashes to use in ritualistic magic. It gets worse when they start to murder the living for their remains.

Shooting Straight

Author : Shane Clapper
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1604621281
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Shooting Straight written by Shane Clapper and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America is winning in Iraq! Yes, you read that correctly. How you ask? Thats what Shooting Straight How the American Led Coalition is Winning the War in Iraq answers. Shane Clapper has spoken directly with soldiers who have been there and witnessed the blood shed and the carnage of war. Yet they have also seen the good that is coming out of the liberation process. Their accounts on how the people of Iraq, their mission, and the future of Iraqi democracy look like are entirely different than what one gets on the evening news. This is their story. From the fall of Baghdad, to Beanie Babies becoming the new Iraqi fad. From the excitement of reality TV becoming a hit within the country, to Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction. Clapper co vers it all from front to back and beyond. As a doctor serving in Iraq, Lieutenant Colonel Gary Morsch put it, What you see graphically on television is only a sliver of the whole pie. The media is not giving you the big picture, or the whole truthThe fact is there are far more people who appreciate and respect Americans than youd guess by watching TV. In fact, those who oppose our presence are a very small minority? Sure there are bombings and beheadings in Iraq. Sure lots of American and Iraqis have died in the conflict. Yet there are immense signs of progress, from education, to business opportunities, to reconstruction, to womens rights, and in even of all areas sports. The list is long on the good things that are going on in Iraq. Shooting Straight How the American Led Coalition is Winning the War in Iraq shows what television, most newspapers, and even President Bush has failed to do. It tells why we are winning in Iraq. From facts and figures, to quotesfrom Iraqis and American soldiers, to stories that will warm your heart. Shooting Straight will get behind the fiction

Be the Hero of Your Own Game

Author : Terri Marie
Publisher : TikiBooks.com
ISBN 13 : 189722205X
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book Be the Hero of Your Own Game written by Terri Marie and published by TikiBooks.com. This book was released on 2005 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone can become a hero. Anyone. This book teaches you how to become the hero of your own game by using a powerful tool that changes the subconscious and builds self-esteem, ensuring you win. The book takes you through the game with both specific and general strategies to improve and win your life game, the game you choose.

Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars

Author : Douglas Brode
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810885123
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars written by Douglas Brode and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1977, Star Wars blazed across the screen to become one of the highest grossing and most beloved movies of all time. It was followed by two sequels and three prequels, all of which became blockbusters. Comic books, novels, graphic novels, and magazines devoted to the films have added to the mythology of George Lucas’s creation. Despite the impact of the franchise on popular culture, however, discussion of the films from a scholarly perspective has not kept pace with the films. In Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars: An Anthology, Douglas Brode and Leah Deyneka have assembled an intriguing collection of essays addressing the influences that shaped the films, as well as the impact the franchise has had on popular culture. Contributors to this volume discuss the Star Wars universe and what its connection to various cultural touchstones—from fairy tales and Joseph Campbell to Disneyland and Marvel comics—mean to viewers. Essays examine the films in the franchise as well as incarnations of the Star Wars universe in video games, comic books, and television programs, including the films’ influence on new generations of filmmakers. A companion volume to Sex, Politics, and Culture in Star Wars, Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars is a diverse collection of criticism that investigates the dynamic force that Star Wars has become in popular culture, from every imaginable angle.