The Feminization of Quest-Romance: Radical Departures

by Dana A. Heller

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What happens when a woman dares to imagine herself a hero? Questing, she sets out for unknown regions. Lighting a torch, she elicits from the darkness stories never told or heard before. The woman hero sails against the tides of great legends that recount the adventures of heroic men, legends deemed universal, timeless, and essential to our understanding of the natural order that holds us and completes us in its spiral. Yet these myths and rituals...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0292724713

ISBN13:9780292724716

Release Date:February 1991

Publisher:University of Texas Press

Length:151 Pages

Weight:0.45 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

Classics Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods Women Writers Women's Studies

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