The Development of the Anti-hero in the American Novel
Author : Roger D. Harms
Publisher :
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 1965
Category : American fiction
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Author : Roger D. Harms
Publisher :
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 1965
Category : American fiction
ISBN :
Author : D. Simmons
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 27,97 MB
Release : 2008-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0230612520
The Anti-Hero in the American Novel rereads major texts of the 1960s to offer an innovative re-evaluation of a set of canonical novels that moves beyond entrenched post-modern and post-structural interpretations towards an appraisal which emphasizes the specifically humanist and idealist elements of these works.
Author : Mona Gail Rosenman
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 10,97 MB
Release : 1970
Category : American fiction
ISBN :
Author : Felicia Ann Wade
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,30 MB
Release : 1972
Category :
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Author : Sarah Hagelin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0226816362
The New Female Antihero examines the hard-edged spies, ruthless queens, and entitled slackers of twenty-first-century television. The last ten years have seen a shift in television storytelling toward increasingly complex storylines and characters. In this study, Sarah Hagelin and Gillian Silverman zoom in on a key figure in this transformation: the archetype of the female antihero. Far from the sunny, sincere, plucky persona once demanded of female characters, the new female antihero is often selfish and deeply unlikeable. In this entertaining and insightful study, Hagelin and Silverman explore the meanings of this profound change in the role of women characters. In the dramas of the new millennium, they show, the female antihero is ambitious, conniving, even murderous; in comedies, she is self-centered, self-sabotaging, and anti-aspirational. Across genres, these female protagonists eschew the part of good girl or role model. In their rejection of social responsibility, female antiheroes thus represent a more profound threat to the status quo than do their male counterparts. From the devious schemers of Game of Thrones, The Americans, Scandal, and Homeland, to the joyful failures of Girls, Broad City, Insecure, and SMILF, female antiheroes register a deep ambivalence about the promises of liberal feminism. They push back against the myth of the modern-day super-woman—she who “has it all”—and in so doing, they give us new ways of imagining women’s lives in contemporary America.
Author : Margrethe Bruun Vaage
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 39,78 MB
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1317503171
The antihero prevails in recent American drama television series. Characters such as mobster kingpin Tony Soprano (The Sopranos), meth cook and gangster-in-the-making Walter White (Breaking Bad) and serial killer Dexter Morgan (Dexter) are not morally good, so how do these television series make us engage in these morally bad main characters? And what does this tell us about our moral psychological make-up, and more specifically, about the moral psychology of fiction? Vaage argues that the fictional status of these series deactivates rational, deliberate moral evaluation, making the spectator rely on moral emotions and intuitions that are relatively easy to manipulate with narrative strategies. Nevertheless, she also argues that these series regularly encourage reactivation of deliberate, moral evaluation. In so doing, these fictional series can teach us something about ourselves as moral beings—what our moral intuitions and emotions are, and how these might differ from deliberate, moral evaluation.
Author : Donald L. Roberts
Publisher :
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 15,45 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Heroes in motion pictures
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Author : Tyler Cowen
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,85 MB
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1250110548
An against-the-grain polemic on American capitalism from New York Times bestselling author Tyler Cowen. We love to hate the 800-pound gorilla. Walmart and Amazon destroy communities and small businesses. Facebook turns us into addicts while putting our personal data at risk. From skeptical politicians like Bernie Sanders who, at a 2016 presidential campaign rally said, “If a bank is too big to fail, it is too big to exist,” to millennials, only 42 percent of whom support capitalism, belief in big business is at an all-time low. But are big companies inherently evil? If business is so bad, why does it remain so integral to the basic functioning of America? Economist and bestselling author Tyler Cowen says our biggest problem is that we don’t love business enough. In Big Business, Cowen puts forth an impassioned defense of corporations and their essential role in a balanced, productive, and progressive society. He dismantles common misconceptions and untangles conflicting intuitions. According to a 2016 Gallup survey, only 12 percent of Americans trust big business “quite a lot,” and only 6 percent trust it “a great deal.” Yet Americans as a group are remarkably willing to trust businesses, whether in the form of buying a new phone on the day of its release or simply showing up to work in the expectation they will be paid. Cowen illuminates the crucial role businesses play in spurring innovation, rewarding talent and hard work, and creating the bounty on which we’ve all come to depend.
Author : James Lewis Kramer
Publisher :
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 33,78 MB
Release : 1972
Category : American fiction
ISBN :
Author : John Williams
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,34 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Adultery
ISBN : 1590179285
"Born the child of a poor farmer in Missouri, William Stoner is urged by his parents to study new agriculture techniques at the state university. Digging instead into the texts of Milton and Shakespeare, Stoner falls under the spell of the unexpected pleasures of English literature, and decides to make it his life. Stoner is the story of that life"--