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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"byronic hero"”.
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Immortal Melancholia: A Psychoanalytical Study of Byronic Heroes
<p>This culminating project examines Byronic heroes using psychoanalytic theory across four case studies in media, including classic literature, theater, film, and television. The Byronic hero is a literary archetype inspired by the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824). Typical …
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Danse Macabre: Origins, Evolution, and Execution
… archetype, the Gothic narrative, and the Byronic hero. Through exploring the <em>Danse Macabre</em> within their dystopian narratives, the notion of a hereafter is emphasized as an integral component within their natural laws. These spiritual ideals perpetuate the Christian concept of …
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The Byronic Myth in Brazil: Cultural Perspectives on Lord Byron's Image in Brazilian Romanticism
… him. Their notion of what it meant to be "Byronic," however, differed from ideas held in Europe. The Brazilian Byronic hero was more extreme, macabre, and sentimental, lonelier, darker, and deadlier. Byron had various cult followings in Brazil that established rites and ceremonies and …
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Dangerous men: the crisis of masculinity in Romantic women's fiction
My dissertation establishes a pre-history of the Byronic and Austenian hero, contributing to larger discussions of masculinity, women’s writing, and feminist literary studies in the Romantic period. I address a gap in Romantic-era scholarship by interrogating how proto-Byronic and Austenian heroes …