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Heroes In Literature
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The absurd hero in American fiction: Updike, Styron, Bellow [and] Salinger,


Galloway, David D.
Austin, University of Texas Press [1966] 1966

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The absurd hero in American fiction : Updike, Styron, Bellow, Salinger


Galloway, David D.
Austin : University of Texas Press, 1981. 1981

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The ancient Greek hero in 24 hours


Nagy, Gregory.
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013. 2013

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An anthology of Beowulf criticism.


Nicholson, Lewis E., editor.
[Notre Dame, Ind.] : University of Notre Dame Press, 1963. 1963

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Aristophanes and the comic hero


Whitman, Cedric H. (Cedric Hubbell), 1916-1979.
Cambridge, Mass. : Published for Oberlin College by Harvard University Press, 1964. 1964

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The Beowulf poet; a collection of critical essays


Fry, Donald K., compilor.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall [1968] 1968

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The Beowulf reader



New York : Garland Pub., 2000. 2000

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Beowulf : the poem and its tradition


Niles, John D.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1983. 1983

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Critical survey of graphic novels : heroes and superheroes.



Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, [2012] 2012

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Detectives in the shadows : a hard-boiled history


Lee, Susanna, 1970- author.
Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. 2020

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Endless experiments; essays on the heroic experience in American romanticism.


Lieber, Todd M.
Columbus : Ohio State University Press [1973] 1973

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The epic hero


Miller, Dean A.
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 2000

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The evolution of the costumed avenger : the 4,000-year history of the superhero


Nevins, Jess, author.
Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2017]. 2017

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Fame : what the classics tell us about our cult of celebrity


Payne, Tom.
New York : Picador, 2010. 2010

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The female hero in American and British literature


Pearson, Carol, 1944-
New York : Bowker, 1981. 1981

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Fictions of the Irish literary revival : a changeling art


Foster, John Wilson.
Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press, 1987. 1987

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From folklore to fiction : a study of folk heroes and rituals in the Black American novel


Thomas, H. Nigel, 1947-
New York : Greenwood Press, 1988. 1988

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Gilgamesh : the life of a poem


Schmidt, Michael, 1947- author.
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019] 2019

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Hamlet's Arab journey : Shakespeare's prince and Nasser's ghost


Litvin, Margaret, 1974-
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2011] 2011

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Hemingway's heroes


Wylder, Delbert E.
[Albuquerque] : University of New Mexico Press [1969] 1969

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The hero


Burling, Alexis, author.
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing, [2016] 2016

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The hero


Child, Lee, author.
London : TLS Books, 2019. 2019

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Hero and exile : the art of old English poetry


Greenfield, Stanley B.
London ; Ronceverte, W. Va. : Hambledon Press, 1989. 1989

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The Hero in Scandinavian literature : from Peer Gynt to the Present



Austin : University of Texas Press, [1975] 1975

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The Hero in transition



Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green University Popular Press, [1983] 1983

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The hero of the Waverley novels.


Welsh, Alexander.
New Haven : Yale University Press, 1963. 1963

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Heroes and humanities : detective fiction and culture


Browne, Ray B. (Ray Broadus), 1922-2009.
Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, [1986] 1986

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Heroes and legends : the most influential characters of literature


Shippey, T. A., lecturer.
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, [2014] 2014

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Heroes and Legends : the most influential characters of literature.



[United States] : The Great Courses, 2014. 2014

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Heroes and men



Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities, [1988] 1988

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Heroes : what they do and why we need them


Allison, Scott T.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. 2011

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The heroic ideal in American literature


Gross, Theodore L.
New York : Free Press [1971] 1971

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Heroic identity in the world of Beowulf


Gwara, Scott, 1962-
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009. 2008

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The heroic idiom of Shakespearean tragedy


Bulman, James C., 1947-
Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [1985] 1985

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The hero's journey



New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, [2009] 2009

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The hero's quest



Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, [2013] 2013

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The Iliad of Homer


Vandiver, Elizabeth, 1956-
Springfield, VA : The Teaching Company, [2000] 2000

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Islam and the heroic image : themes in literature and the visual arts


Renard, John, 1944-
Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, [1993] 1993

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Kings & captains; variations on a heroic theme.


Moorman, Charles.
[Lexington] : University Press of Kentucky [1971] 1971

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Literary swordsmen and sorcerers : the makers of heroic fantasy


De Camp, L. Sprague (Lyon Sprague), 1907-2000.
Sauk City, Wis. : Arkham House, [1976] 1976

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The literature of war : five studies in heroic virtue


Rutherford, Andrew.
New York : Barnes & Noble Books, 1978. 1978

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Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature


Harris, Trudier.
Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2014] 2014

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Milton and Christian heroism; Biblical epic themes and forms in seventeenth-century England


Kurth, Burton O. (Burton Oliver)
Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, 1966. 1966

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The mortal hero : an introduction to Homer's Iliad


Schein, Seth L, author
Berkeley : University of California Press, [1984] 1984

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The new novel in America; the Kafkan mode in contemporary fiction.


Weinberg, Helen, 1914-1997.
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press [1970] 1970

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The Odyssey of Homer


Vandiver, Elizabeth, 1956-
Springfield, VA : Teaching Co., [2000] 2000

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The positive hero in Russian literature


Mathewson, Rufus W.
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1975. 1975

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Reality and the heroic pattern : last plays of Ibsen, Shakespeare, and Sophocles


Grene, David.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1967. 1967

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The Red badge of courage : redefining the hero


Gibson, Donald B.
Boston : Twayne Publishers, [1988] 1988

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The returns of Odysseus : colonization and ethnicity


Malkin, Irad.
Berkeley : University of California Press, [1998] 1998

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