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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Hero-worship"”.
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Such a Lot of World
… problems, coming of age, drinking too much, hero worship, harsh reality. There is hardly any sex in this collection. Again, a sad commentary on the author's life.
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Adolescent Transformation In the Short Stories of Carson McCullers
… discover the difficulties of adolescent romance, hero-worship, peer group formation and exclusion, and power reversal. The narrator in "Like That" struggles with her Peter-Pan complex as she witnesses her sister go through an adolescent romance. She despises - and fears - the changes that …
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Heroic individualism: the hero as author in democratic culture
… with specific reference to the question of "heroic individualism." I attempt to elucidate the notion of heroic individualism by examining three modern democratic moralists whose work occupies the space between politics and literature: Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Carlyle and Friedrich …
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Escape in Thurber : from delight to delirium
… the sanctity of women and marriage, patriotism, hero worship, and the supremacy of common sense. The hero of this era is the victim, the slightly neurotic man who does not fit into high-pressured city life. Post-war humor moves from playfulness to bitterness, from misogyny to misanthropy, from …
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Herederos de la libertad: criminalización, liderazgo y escritura de afro-descendientes en Colombia, Brasil y Cuba
… analyze the strategies of self-representation as heroes implemented by Afro-Latin American political leaders to promote their right to fully participate in the political arena. The elites' reaction to this phenomenon (from repression to massacres) proves the massive influence of Afro-Latin …