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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"antihero"”.
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WHEN THE MOB BOSS, DRUG LORD, AND MALEVOLENT QUEEN AREN’T ALL BAD: AUDIENCES’ COMPLEX UNDERSTANDING OF AND ALLEGIANCE TO FICTIONAL ANTIHERO CHARACTERS IN TELEVISION AND FILM
Antihero characters in TV and film have grown in popularity with both audiences and in academic study in recent years. The antihero literature thus far has focused on predicting audience enjoyment of such characters/narratives and building theories to explain audience members’ ability to root for …
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<em>The Fountainhead</em>: The Evolving Roles of the Heroic Code into the Antiheroic Mode.
… hero defined by Joseph Campbell and the antihero's break from the traditional hero's code. The information gathered comes from books, interviews, and journals discussing the studies of the traditional hero, the antihero, and The Fountainhead. Through the actions of the protaganist, Howard …
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The 'Little Man' in Quest of Survival: The Opportunism, Dialectics, and Passive Resistance of The Comic Antihero in Modern Fiction
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T13:49:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7709233.pdf: 14440915 bytes, checksum: 1522b9847ae7d8a489ff160303f003c5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976
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Darth Bane : The Monomyth's Dark Liberator
… Bane, Bane illustrates what the epitome of an antihero is and also that he can make the monomyth his own. The antihero is one of the most fascinating character types in literature, and through Bane's complicated journey as an antihero, he proves that he embodies all of the qualifications set …
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Red Things
… and the stories explore the concept of the antihero, with protagonists who are somewhat immoral, and the difficulty of finding the right romantic partner. In addition, the stories often focus on hourly jobs and the effect they have on people.
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A critical examination of Francis Ebejer's English novels
… Joseph and Miguel, the latter being the antihero of Ebejer's "American" novel, Come Again in Spring, with a sense of guilt, and internal power; and pressures from society, an external force. Ebejer himself told me that he is preoccupied with Time, in the sense that the past is ever …
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"Nothing to Fear from the Influence of Foreigners:" The Patriotism of Richmond's German-Americans during the Civil War
… doing so, by constructing an image of a German antihero, the Confederacy built up its spirit of nationalism. Although German immigrants moved to cities, in the South and in the North, primarily in order to seek economic opportunities, the immigrants who came to Richmond were different from their …
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James Thurber's Little Man and the Battle of the Sexes: The Humor of Gender and Conflict
… This twentieth-century protagonist was a comic antihero whose function was to create sympathy rather than scorn and bring into question the values and behaviors of society rather than affirm them, as earlier comic figures did. The little man was urban, inept, frustrated, childlike, suspicious, …
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Herói(s) e anti-herói(s) na Crónica de D. Fernando, de Fernão Lopes, e em “Arras por foro de Espanha”, de Alexandre Herculano
Este trabalho tem como finalidade analisar a figura do herói e do anti-herói medievais revisitados em “Arras por foro de Espanha”, de Alexandre Herculano. Procedemos a uma comparação com a fonte de inspiração do conto de Alexandre Herculano, a Crónica de D. Fernando, de Fernão Lopes. Detivemo-nos, …
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El antihéroe en el cine de la 'Otra Escuela de Barcelona': Arquetipos antiheroicos del cine popular barcelonés durante el franquismo
… identificar en estas la presencia del arquetipo antiheroico en relación con sus rasgos más habituales dentro de la tradición cultural española, con el objetivo de descubrir si este ya se pone de manifiesto en el cine de esos realizadores o si, por el contrario, aparece directamente con la …