Meditations on the Hero
Author: Walter L. Reed
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press
Published: 1974-01-01
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780300017359
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A Romantic Hero
Author: Olivia Manning
Publisher: Random House UK
Published: 2001-01-23
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780749311995
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFourteen subtle and beautifully written stories of varying theme and setting are brought together in this brilliant collection: haunting studies of lonely childhoods, shrewdly perceptive portraits of adult relationships and black comedies of domestic deadlock - all infused with Olivia Manning's precise and consistent wit. "From the Trade Paperback edition."
Wagner and the Romantic Hero
Author: Simon Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-06-24
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1139451669
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew major artists have aroused the ire and adulation of successive generations as persistently as Richard Wagner. He was the centre of controversy during his lifetime and yet, when he died, he was the most idolized man in Germany. The situation has not changed much since then. Simon Williams explores the reasons for this adulation and antipathy by examining an aspect that may be a fundamental cause for this radical division in the reception of Wagner's work, the phenomenon of heroism. Williams analyses this heroism as a function of Wagner's theatre and music, beginning with a definition and examination of the concept of the heroic. The book also discusses all thirteen stage works by Wagner and the phenomenon of heroism and Wagner's adaptation of the figure of the Romantic hero. Williams offers a theatrical, musical, and cultural re-evaluation of one of the most enduring figures in the arts.
Rules for Dating a Romantic Hero
Author: Harriet Evans
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-01-06
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 1476766185
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom international favorite and bestseller Harriet Evans, the charming sequel to beloved novel A Hopeless Romantic that asks the question: Do you believe in happy endings? Laura Foster used to be a hopeless romantic. She was obsessed with meeting her own Prince Charming until she grew up and realized real life doesn’t work like that. Then she met Nick. A romantic hero straight from a fairytale, with a grand country estate and a family tree to match. They’ve been together four years now and Laura knows that what really matters is the two of them, not everything else around them. She can’t imagine ever loving anyone the way she loves Nick. Now, though, people are openly asking when they’ll hear wedding bells, and Nick is keeping secrets from Laura. She’s starting to feel she might not be ‘good enough’ for his family. Can an ordinary girl like Laura make it work with one of the most eligible men in the country?
Romance and Power in the Hollywood Eastern
Author: Nalini Natarajan
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-11-07
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 3030609944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book develops the idea of the "Eastern" as an analytically significant genre of film. Positioned in counterpoint to the Western, the famed cowboy genre of the American frontier, the “Eastern” encompasses films that depict the eastern and southern frontiers of Euro-American expansion. Examining six films in particular—Gunga Din (1939), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Heat and Dust (1983), A Passage to India (1984), Indochine (1992), and The English Patient (1996)—the author explores the duality of the "Eastern" as both aggressive and seductive, depicting conquest and romance at the same time. In juxtaposing these two elements, the book seeks to reveal the double process by which the “Eastern” both diminishes the "East" and Global South and reinforces ignorance about these regions’ histories and complexity, thereby setting the stage for ever-escalating political aggression.
Parallel Curriculum Units for Science, Grades 6-12
Author: Jann H. Leppien
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 2011-02-15
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1452269025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBreathe new life into science learning with this powerful guidebook that shows how to create more thoughtful curriculum and differentiate lessons to benefit all students.
Sex and the Slayer
Author: Lorna Jowett
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2005-04-15
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780819567581
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author aims "to demonstrate in this book not how "feminist" or "progressive" the show is but how it represents femininity, masculinity, and gender relations, including sexuality, and how this relates to the context of genre. The book aims to draw out ... patterns of gender representation and to relate these to relevant contexts".--Intro.
The Rhetoric of Character in Children's Literature
Author: Maria Nikolajeva
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 146167350X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow available in paperback! Until now, there was no theoretical research of character in children's fiction and very few comprehensive theoretical studies of literary characters in general. In her latest intellectual foray, the author of From Mythic to Linear ponders the art of characterization. Through a variety of critical perspectives, she uncovers the essential differences between story ('what we are told') and discourse ('how we are told'), and carefully distinguishes between how these are employed in children's fiction and in general fiction. Yet another masterful work by a leading figure in contemporary criticism.
Hero's Tale
Author: David H Lynn
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1989-01-24
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 1349197165
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Author: Shelley Cobb
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2015-08-27
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 162892120X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the prominence of one-name couples (Brangelina, Kimye) and famous families (the Smiths, the Beckhams), it is becoming increasingly clear that celebrity is no longer an individual pursuit-if it ever was. Accordingly, First Comes Love explores celebrity kinship and the phenomenon of the power couple: those relationships where two stars come together and where their individual identities as celebrities become inseparable from their status as a famous twosome. Taken together, the chapters in this volume interrogate the ways these alliances are bound up in wider cultural debates about marriage, love, intimacy, family, parenthood, sexuality, and gender, in their particular historical contexts, from the 1920s to the present day. Interdisciplinary in scope, First Comes Love seeks to establish how celebrity relationships play particular roles in dramatizing, disrupting, and reconciling often-contradictory ideas about coupledom and kinship formations.
