"The essays seek to define the unique qualities of female heroism in literary fantasy from 1950s through the present and provide a multi-faceted view of an important fantasy character type who begins to demonstrate a significant presence only in the latter 20th century. The essa…
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"With actress Pam Grier's breakthroughs in Coffy and Foxy Brown, women entered action, science fiction, war, westerns and martial arts films--genres that had previously been considered the domain of male protagonists. This ground-breaking cinema is still viewed with ambivalence.…
"With actress Pam Grier's breakthroughs in Coffy and Foxy Brown, women entered action, science fiction, war, westerns and martial arts films--genres that had previously been considered the domain of male protagonists. This ground-breaking cinema is still viewed with ambivalence.…
"With actress Pam Grier's breakthrough in Coffy and Foxy Brown, women entered action, science fiction, war, westerns and martial arts films, genres that had previously been considered the male domain. This cinema, however, is still viewed with ambivalence. This in-depth critical…
"Women have been led to believe that superheroes and heroism are not for them, and that they are little more than love interests, or sidekicks who stand by their supermen. This is a false proposition argues Jennifer K. Stuller, as she uncovers the true history of how superwomen …
"This title explores contemporary heroines in film, television, and media"--.
This study analyses the characterisation of the protagonists in the five extant 'ideal' Greek novels. Koen de Temmerman offers close readings of techniques of characterisation used in each novel and combines modern - mainly, but not exclusively, structuralist - narratology and a…
Analyzes the characterization of the protagonists in the five extant, so-called 'ideal' Greek novels of the first few centuries C.E., using the conceptual couples of typification/individuation, idealistic/realistic characterization, and static/dynamic character to show their com…
This study analyses the characterisation of the protagonists in the five extant 'ideal' Greek novels. Koen de Temmerman offers close readings of techniques of characterisation used in each novel and combines modern - mainly, but not exclusively, structuralist - narratology and a…
"Using a comparative, feminist approach informed by English and Italian literary and theatre studies, this book investigates connections between Shakespearean comedy and the Italian novella tradition. Shakespeare's comedies adapted the styles of wit, character types, motifs of e…