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Author: Rodney Standen Publisher: Quest Books ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 180
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Discusses literary works such as The Odyssey by Homer, Ulysses by James Joyce, The Odyssey : a modern sequel by Nikos Kazantzakis, War and peace by Leo Tolstoy, The Faithful Johannes, The razor's edge by W. Somerset Maugham, and Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.
Author: Rodney Standen Publisher: Quest Books ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 180
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Discusses literary works such as The Odyssey by Homer, Ulysses by James Joyce, The Odyssey : a modern sequel by Nikos Kazantzakis, War and peace by Leo Tolstoy, The Faithful Johannes, The razor's edge by W. Somerset Maugham, and Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.
Author: Joseph Campbell Publisher: HarperCollins UK ISBN: 0586085718 Category : Folklore Languages : en Pages : 107
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A study of heroism in the myths of the world - an exploration of all the elements common to the great stories that have helped people make sense of their lives from the earliest times. It takes in Greek Apollo, Maori and Jewish rites, the Buddha, Wotan, and the bothers Grimm's Frog-King.
Author: Maria Tatar Publisher: Liveright Publishing ISBN: 1631498827 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 356
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World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long-buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman. The Heroine with 1,001 Faces dismantles the cult of warrior heroes, revealing a secret history of heroinism at the very heart of our collective cultural imagination. Maria Tatar, a leading authority on fairy tales and folklore, explores how heroines, rarely wielding a sword and often deprived of a pen, have flown beneath the radar even as they have been bent on redemptive missions. Deploying the domestic crafts and using words as weapons, they have found ways to survive assaults and rescue others from harm, all while repairing the fraying edges in the fabric of their social worlds. Like the tongueless Philomela, who spins the tale of her rape into a tapestry, or Arachne, who portrays the misdeeds of the gods, they have discovered instruments for securing fairness in the storytelling circles where so-called women’s work—spinning, mending, and weaving—is carried out. Tatar challenges the canonical models of heroism in Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces, with their male-centric emphases on achieving glory and immortality. Finding the women missing from his account and defining their own heroic trajectories is no easy task, for Campbell created the playbook for Hollywood directors. Audiences around the world have willingly surrendered to the lure of quest narratives and charismatic heroes. Whether in the form of Frodo, Luke Skywalker, or Harry Potter, Campbell’s archetypical hero has dominated more than the box office. In a broad-ranging volume that moves with ease from the local to the global, Tatar demonstrates how our new heroines wear their curiosity as a badge of honor rather than a mark of shame, and how their “mischief making” evidences compassion and concern. From Bluebeard’s wife to Nancy Drew, and from Jane Eyre to Janie Crawford, women have long crafted stories to broadcast offenses in the pursuit of social justice. Girls, too, have now precociously stepped up to the plate, with Hermione Granger, Katniss Everdeen, and Starr Carter as trickster figures enacting their own forms of extrajudicial justice. Their quests may not take the traditional form of a “hero’s journey,” but they reveal the value of courage, defiance, and, above all, care. “By turns dazzling and chilling” (Ruth Franklin), The Heroine with 1,001 Faces creates a luminous arc that takes us from ancient times to the present day. It casts an unusually wide net, expanding the canon and thinking capaciously in global terms, breaking down the boundaries of genre, and displaying a sovereign command of cultural context. This, then, is a historic volume that informs our present and its newfound investment in empathy and social justice like no other work of recent cultural history.
Author: International Arthurian Society. British Branch Publisher: DS Brewer ISBN: 9780859912273 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 204
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These essays on Arthurian prose romances, published as a tribute to Cedric E. Pickford, reflect their development and the reshaping of the romances in response to changing taste and fashion from the death of Chrétien de Troyes to the end of the medieval period in England. Topics include the question of religious influences; the transition of Arthurian material to foreign contexts; and the fortunes of the prose romance in England, focusing on the Prose 'Merlin' and Malory. The contributors are: ELSPETH KENNEDY, RENÉE L. CURTIS, FANNI BOGDANOW, JANE H.M. TAYLOR, DAVID BLAMIRES, CERIDWEN LLOYD-MORGAN, CAROL M. MEALE, KAREN STERN, DEREK BREWER, FAITH LYONS, ROGER MIDDLETON
Author: Christopher Vogler Publisher: ISBN: 9780330375917 Category : Archetype (Psychology) in literature Languages : en Pages : 326
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The Writer's Journey is an insider's guide to how master storytellers from Hitchcock to Spielberg have used mythic structure to create powerful stories. This new edition includes analyses of latest releases such as The Full Monty.
Author: Matthew S. Friedman Publisher: Freedom Publishers ISBN: 9780578665214 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 170
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Be the HERO. Be the Change. Small acts multiplied by millions of people can help change our world. Matthew Friedman, the founder of the Be the Hero Campaign, is a humanitarian professional who was formerly employed by the United Nations and the US government, and has lived and worked in more than 40 countries. He has come to realize that if those who work on the world's problems could solve them, they would. But the fundamental truth is that they simply can't because the task is well beyond what a few thousand people can fix. Crises like climate change, poverty, modern slavery, and refugees require an army of united people - people who care enough to be the change. Friedman believes that collective actions of ordinary people have the greatest chance of effecting a real transformation. He considers everyone who volunteers, no matter how big or small the gesture, to be heroic. Heroism exists, often untapped, within each of us. It is a voice of good, of righteousness, of action, and of love. In today's world, this voice too often lies dormant and receives very little nurturing. Friedman urges this heroic part of us to rise up in the form of love, expressing itself publicly through good deeds. Friedman's clarion call is this: identify a cause that you are passionate about, accept responsibility for it, surrender, and then step up to get involved. By motivating and training you to serve, he offers a new sense of purpose and meaning for your life. This book will equip you to better understand the importance of these global issues and our collective roles. It's a step-by-step guide to becoming an everyday hero. FIND OUT MORE: BetheHeroCampaign.com
Author: Gregg Levoy Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101608897 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 512
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Rediscover—or discover for the first time—the things that make you passionate in life Vital Signs is about what inspires passion and what defeats it. How we lose it and how we get it back. And ultimately it’s about the endless yet endlessly fruitful tug-of-war between freedom and domestication, the wild in us and the tame, our natural selves and our conditioned selves. Each chapter in Vital Signs will contain a core sample, an intimate biography of one of the strategies we employ to gain or regain our passion. The book also affirms the importance of courageous inquiry into dispassion—where we’re numb, depressed, stuck, bored—so the reader can recognize and change these tendencies in themselves.
Author: Michael Pocock Publisher: Baker Academic ISBN: 080102661X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 400
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Dramatic changes have taken place in global society and in the church that have implications for how the church does missions in the twenty-first century. This guide helps readers understand these trends.
Author: Rodney Standen
Author: Rodney Standen
Author: Joseph Campbell
Author: Maria Tatar
Author: International Arthurian Society. British Branch
Author: Christopher Vogler
Author: Matthew S. Friedman
Author: Gregg Levoy
Author: Michael Pocock
Author: Joseph Campbell
Author: John Blakey