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Flag This Row	"All little girls are terrible": Maud as Anti-Villain in Catherynne M. Valente's The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making Treftz, Jill M. in: Campbell, Lori M., ed. A Quest of Her Own: Essays on the Female Hero in Modern Fantasy. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014. p. 248-266. Subjects: HEROES; VALENTE, CATHERYNNE M.; WOMEN IN SF AND FANTASY Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	"Labyrinth Without a Clew, A": Husbands, Houses and Harpies in Richard Matheson's The Shrinking Man and Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves. Downey, Dara in: Detora, Lisa M., ed. Heroes of Film, Comics and American Culture: Essays on Real and Fictional Defenders of Home. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. p. 17-39. Subjects: DANIELEWSKI, MARK Z.; HEROES; MATHESON, RICHARD (1926-2013); SHRINKING MAN (NOVEL) Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	"So You've Taken Someone Else's Nostalgia": Trauma, Nostalgia, and American Hero Stories. Hallam, Lindsay In: Morton, Drew, ed. After Midnight: Watchmen after Watchmen. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2022. p. 225-236. Subjects: HEROES; WATCHMEN (FRANCHISE) Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	'That woman deserves her revenge': Quentin Tarantinos Kill Bill und die Geburtsstunde der Screen Queen.. Proki, Tanja in: Immer, Nikolas, ed. Asthetischer Heroismus: konzeptionelle und figurative Paradigmen des Helden. Bielefeld : transcript, 2013. p. 380-402. Subjects: HEROES; KILL BILL: VOLUME 1 (2003) (FILM) Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	A Long Time Ago on a Newsstand Far, Far Away: The Mythic Comic Book Hero in Marvel Comics’ Star Wars Hogan, Jan in: Brode, Douglas and Deyneka, Leah, eds. Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars: An Anthology. Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Scarecrow, 2012. p. 113-125. Subjects: COMICS; HEROES; MARVEL COMICS; STAR WARS (MOTION PICTURES) Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	A New Kind of Hero: A Song of Ice and Fire's Brienne of Tarth Cameron, John H. in: Campbell, Lori M., ed. A Quest of Her Own: Essays on the Female Hero in Modern Fantasy. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014. p. 188-205. Subjects: HEROES; MARTIN, GEORGE R. R.; WOMEN IN SF AND FANTASY Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Above the Social Contract? How Superheroes Break Society, Sharp, Robert in: Johnson, David K., ed. Heroes and Philosophy: Buy the Book, Save the World. New York: Wiley, 2009. p. 6-21. Subjects: HEROES; SUPERHEROES Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Actors and Their Mythic Heroes: From the Doctor to Captain Kirk, Baker, Djoymi in: Perlich, John and Whitt, David, eds. Millennial Mythmaking: Essays on the Power of Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Films and Games. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. p. 129-145. Subjects: HEROES Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Adult Heroism and Role Models in the Harry Potter Novels Nikolajeva, Maria in: Berndt, Katrin and Steveker, Lena. Heroism in the Harry Potter Series. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. p. 193-206. Subjects: HEROES; ROWLING, J. K. Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Ambivalent Hero of Contemporary Fantasy and Science Fiction Prieto-Pablos, Juan A. Extrapolation 32(1): 64-80. Spring 1991. Subjects: CRITICISM; HEROES; SOCIOLOGY OF SF AND FANTASY Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	And Her Will Be Done: The Girls Trump the Boys in The Keys to the Kingdom and Abhorsen Series by Garth Nix. Campbell, Lori M. in: Campbell, Lori M., ed. A Quest of Her Own: Essays on the Female Hero in Modern Fantasy. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014. p. 206-224. Subjects: ABHORSEN (OLD KINGDOM, THE) (SERIES); GIRLS; HEROES; KEYS TO THE KINGDOM, THE (SERIES); NIX, GARTH; WOMEN IN SF AND FANTASY Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Archetypal Narrative Structure and Archetypal Characters in the Novels of Michael Ende. Simurdic, Iva Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Novi Sad (Serbia), 2022. 248 p. (DAI-C 84(9)(E).) https://www.cris.uns.ac.rs/record.jsf?recordId=120540 Subjects: ARCHETYPES; CHILDREN'S LITERATURE; ENDE, MICHAEL; FANTASY; HEROES; JIM BUTTON AND LUCAS THE ENGINE DRIVER (NOVEL); JIM BUTTON AND THE WILD 13 (NOVEL); JOURNEY MOTIF; JUNG, CARL G.; MOMO (NOVEL); UNENDLICHE GESCHICHTE, DIE (NEVERENDING STORY, THE) (NOVEL) Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Art of the Story-Teller and the Person of the Hero, The. Wiggins, Kayl M. in: Croft, Janet B., ed. Tolkien on Film: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings. Altadena, CA: Mythopoeic Press, 2004. p. 103-122. Subjects: HEROES; JACKSON, PETER; LORD OF THE RINGS, THE (2001-2003) (FILM SERIES); MOTION PICTURES; STORYTELLING; TOLKIEN, J. R. R. Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Ästhetik der Gewalt. Der >Werwolf< als Symbol des negativen Heroismus und politischer Willkür Dorchain, Claudia S. in: Immer, Nikolas, ed. Ästhetischer Heroismus: konzeptionelle und figurative Paradigmen des Helden. Bielefeld : transcript, 2013. p. 51-62. Subjects: HEROES; WEREWOLVES Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Ästhetischer Heroismus: konzeptionelle und figurative Paradigmen des Helden, ed. by Nikolas Immer. Immer, Nikolas Bielefeld : transcript, 2013. 458 p. Subjects: HEROES; MOTION PICTURES Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Beowulf to Batman: The Epic Hero and Pop Culture. Rollin, Roger B. College English 31(5): 431-449. February 1970. Subjects: BATMAN; BEOWULF (POEM); HEROES; MILTON, JOHN; POPULAR CULTURE; SPENSER, EDMUND; STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (1966-1969) (TV) Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Borrowed Cup of Courage, The: A Descriptive Comparison of Archetypes Presented by Male and Female Authors in Fantasy for Adolescents. Noel, Roberta C. Ed. D. Dissertation, Gonzaga University, 1987. 345pp. (DAI-A 49(8).) Subjects: ADOLESCENTS; ARCHETYPES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; FANTASY; GENDER; HEROES; HEROIC FANTASY; HEROINES; HIGH FANTASY; RITE OF PASSAGE (CONCEPT); WOMEN SF WRITERS; YOUNG ADULT SF AND FANTASY Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Shero: Re-defining the Mythological Hero. Onciul-Omelus, Jamie Master's Thesis, University of Northern British Columbia, 2006. 97 p. (MAI 44(1).) Subjects: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1997-2003) (TV); FEMINISM; HEROES; HEROINES; MYTHOLOGY; STEREOTYPES Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Greek Hero Revisited. Bowman, Laurel Online Resource [8 p.] http://wbe.uvic.ca/~lbowman/buffy/bufffythehero.html Subjects: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1997-2003) (TV); HEROES Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Child Hero in Walt Disney's "Snow White," "Pinocchio," and the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" Sequence of "Fantasia". MacCurdy, Bruce Alan Ph. D. Dissertation, Syracuse University, 1983. 376 p. (DAI-A 44(7).) Subjects: CHILDREN; FANTASIA (1940) (ANIMATED FILM); HEROES; MYTHOLOGY; PINOCCHIO (1940) (ANIMATED FILM); PSYCHOLOGY; SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937) (ANIMATED FILM); THEMES; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	chivalric quest, The: Sir Gawain and the green knight. Adams, Anthony in: Schweizer, Bernard and Segal, Robert A., eds. Critical Insights: The Hero's Quest. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2013. p. 148-164. Subjects: CHIVALRY; HEROES; QUEST; SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT (POEM) Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Cinematic Quests for Identity: The Hero's Encounter with the Beast Garcia, Maria Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015. 272 p. Subjects: ANIMALS; HEROES; MOTION PICTURES Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Comic Book Hero, A Cultural Fantasy, The. Yarian, Sharon Ph. D. Dissertation, Adelphi University, 1974. v,103 p. (DAI-B 35: 4205-4206. 1975.) Subjects: COMIC BOOKS; HEROES; PSYCHOLOGY Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Cooking up Epic Heroes Rowland, W. G. Phantastes: The Online Journal of Fantasy Criticism. 1(4): [5pp.] Summer 1999. Subjects: HEROES; WRITING SF AND FANTASY Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Creating Ethical Heroes Who Know How to Win: Or Muddling Through Chetwin, Grace in: Lehr, Susan, ed. Battling Dragons: Issues and Controversy in Children's Literature. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1995. p. 175-193. Subjects: FANTASY; HEROES Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Custodial heroes, moral soldiers, and willing sacrifices: Heroic masculinity in modern epic fantasy. McKenzie, Sean David Master's Thesis, University of Regina, 2009. 137 p. (MAI 48(2M).) Subjects: CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT, THE (SERIES); DONALDSON, STEPHEN R.; EPIC FANTASY; FATHERS; FIONAVAR TAPESTRY (SERIES); GOODKIND, TERRY; HARRY POTTER (NOVEL SERIES); HEROES; KAY, GUY GAVRIEL; MASCULINITY; ROWLING, J. K.; SOLDIERS; SWORD OF TRUTH (SERIES) Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Damnation or Salvation?: Vampire Ethics, Edward Cullen, and the Byronic Hero. Pollack, Taliah in: Larsson, Mariah and Steiner, Ann, eds. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Twilight: Studies in Fiction, Media and a Contemporary Cultural Experience. Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2011. p. 263-278. Subjects: HEROES; MEYER, STEPHENIE; TWILIGHT SAGA (SERIES); VAMPIRES Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Dangerous Superpowers: Comic Book Heroes and American Masculinity in the Atomic Age Ott, John Studies in the Social Sciences 36: 33-46. May 1999. (The Impact of the Cold War on American Popular Culture, ed. by Elaine McClarnand and Steve Goodson. State University of West Georgia, 1999.) Subjects: ATOMIC AGE; COMICS; HEROES; MASCULINITY Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Dante's quest and the sublimation of heroic combat in The divine comedy. Bolton, Matthew in: Schweizer, Bernard and Segal, Robert A., eds. Critical Insights: The Hero's Quest. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2013. p. 165-180. Subjects: COMBAT; DANTE ALIGHIERI; DIVINA COMMEDIA (DIVINE COMEDY) (POEM); HEROES; QUEST Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Decolonizing the Body of the Chosen One: The Bodily Performance of Anakin Skywalker, Buffy Summers, and T'Challa. Wisniewski, Alise M. Master's Thesis, University of Denver, 2019. 79 p. (MAI 81(3)(E).) Subjects: BLACK PANTHER (2018) (FILM); BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1997-2003) (TV); CHOSEN ONE; FANTASY; HEROES; HEROINES; STAR WARS (FRANCHISE) Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	deeper look at heroes and monsters, A. Ordona, Michael LATimes.com The Envelope, November 17, 2022: 20-21. Subjects: HEROES; MONSTERS; PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH (2022) (ANIMATED FILM); SEA BEAST, THE (2022) (ANIMATED FILM); WENDELL AND WILD (2022) (ANIMATED FILM) Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	depiction of the hero in Soviet Russian scientific fantasy, The: aspects of alienation in a peripheral genre. Rullkotter, Bernd M. Litt. Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1974. [2], v, 170 p. (DAI-C 70(82).) http://theses.gla.ac.uk/74037/1/10753947.pdf (4.3 Mb) Subjects: ALIENATION; ANTI-UTOPIA; HEROES; RUSSIA; SCIENCE FANTASY; SCIENCE FICTION; USSR; UTOPIAS Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Depth, Globalization, and the Domestic Hero: The Postmodern Transformation of Tolkien's Bard in Peter Jackson's Hobbit Films Wise, Dennis W. Tolkien Studies 18: 211-233. 2021. Subjects: HEROES; HOBBIT, THE (2012-2014) (FILM SERIES); TOLKIEN, J. R. R. Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Der Auftritt des Helden. Zu einem konstitutiven Aspekt des Heroismus seit dem 19. Jahrhundert Reiling, Jesko in: Immer, Nikolas, ed. Ästhetischer Heroismus: konzeptionelle und figurative Paradigmen des Helden. Bielefeld : transcript, 2013. p. 173-198. Subjects: HEROES Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Der entsagende Held im Bundesroman des romantischen Sozialismus Ziolkowski, Thomas in: Immer, Nikolas, ed. Ästhetischer Heroismus: konzeptionelle und figurative Paradigmen des Helden. Bielefeld : transcript, 2013. p. 275-292. Subjects: HEROES Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Der kollabierte Feind. Zur historischen Poetik des Kriegshelden von Jünger bis Goethe Haas, Claude in: Immer, Nikolas, ed. Ästhetischer Heroismus: konzeptionelle und figurative Paradigmen des Helden. Bielefeld : transcript, 2013. p. 251-274. Subjects: HEROES Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Destructive Villain or Gigantic Hero? The Transformation of Godzilla in Contemporary Popular Culture (pp. 190-202) Danter, Stefan In: Peaslee, Robert M. and Weiner, Robert G., eds. The Supervillain Reader. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2020. p. 190-202. Subjects: GODZILLA; HEROES; SUPERHEROES; SUPERVILLAINS; VILLAINS Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Die Totalität der Mitte. Gustav Freytags Figur Anton Wohlfart und Wilhelm Raabes Protagonist Hans Unwirrsch als ›Helden‹ des antisemitischen Bildungsromans‹ im 19. Jahrhundert Sueselbeck, Jan in: Immer, Nikolas, ed. Ästhetischer Heroismus: konzeptionelle und figurative Paradigmen des Helden. Bielefeld : transcript, 2013. p. 293-324. Subjects: FREYTAG, GUSTAV; HEROES; RAABE, WILHELM Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero Fingeroth, Danny New York: Continuum, 2007. 183 p. Subjects: CARTOONISTS; COMICS; HEROES; JEWISH CARTOONISTS; SUPERHEROES Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Double-Edged Sword, A: Feminist Reclamation in Neomedieval Fantasy. [Record 1 of 2 for added subjects] Garner, Alexandra Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Oregon, 2022. 200 p. (DAI-A 84(8)(E).) Subjects: ADVENTURE TIME (TV); AQUAMAN (CHARACTER); AVENGERS (FRANCHISE); BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1997-2003) (TV); CHILDREN'S SF AND FANTASY; FEMINISM; HARRY POTTER (NOVEL SERIES); HEROES; HEROIC FANTASY; HEROINES; LGBTQ+; MASCULINITY Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Edward Cullen and Bella Swan: Byronic and Feminist Heroes--Or Not. Myers, Abigail E. In: Housel, Rebecca and Wisnewski, J. Jeremy, eds. Twilight and Philosophy: Vampires, Vegetarians, and the Pursuit of Immortality. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2010. p. 147-162. Subjects: HEROES; HEROINES; MEYER, STEPHENIE; TWILIGHT SAGA (SERIES); VAMPIRES Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Eternal Vigil, The: Captain Jack as Byronic Hero. Davis, G. Todd in: Ireland, Andrew, ed. Illuminating Torchwood: Essays on Narrative, Character and Sexuality in the BBC Series. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. p. 79-89. Subjects: HEROES; TORCHWOOD (2006-2011) (DOCTOR WHO) (TV) Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Evolution of the Hero in Comic Books: The Invisible Line between Heroism and Villainy Robles, Dawn M. In: Wright, Will and Kaplan, Steven, eds. The Image of the Hero in Literature, Media, and Society. Pueblo, CO: Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, 2005. p. 279-282. Subjects: COMICS; HEROES Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Evolutions of the Fantasy Hero in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and Lois McMaster Bujold's The Curse of Chalion. Kelso, Sylvia Paradoxa No. 20: 247-262. 2006. Subjects: BUJOLD, LOIS MCMASTER; CURSE OF CHALION, THE (NOVEL); HEROES; JACKSON, PETER; LORD OF THE RINGS, THE (2001-2003) (FILM SERIES) Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Experiment as heroic quest in Zelazny's `For a Breath I Tarry'. Rhodes, Carolyn in: Collins, Robert A. and Pearce, Howard D., eds. Scope of the Fantastic: Culture, Biography, Themes, Children's Literature. Westport: Greenwood, 1985. pp. 191-198. Subjects: HEROES; QUESTS; ZELAZNY, ROGER Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Extract from â€˜The Economy of Reason: the Motives of the Technocratic Hero Huntington, John in: Huntington, John. Rationalizing Genius: Ideological Strategies in the Classic American Science Fiction Short Story. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1989, p. 69-85. Reprinted in: Sawyer, Andy, ed. Science Fiction. New York: Routledge, 2020. Vol. 3, p. 67-82. Subjects: HEROES; TECHNOLOGY Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Faith Under the Fedora: Indiana Jones and the Heroic Journey Towards God. Yogerst, Chris Journal of Religion & Film 18(2); article 7. October 2014. Subjects: ARCHAEOLOGY; CAMPBELL, JOSEPH; HEROES; INDIANA JONES (FILM SERIES); INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989) (FILM); INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1984) (FILM); MYTHOLOGY; RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (INDIANA JONES) (1981) (FILM); RELIGION; SPIELBERG, STEVEN; THEOLOGY Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Fantastic Heroes Now and Then Baker, Sharon in: World Fantasy Convention. The Roots of Fantasy. Seattle, WA: World Fantasy Convention, 1989. pp.97-102. Subjects: CRITICISM; HEROES Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Fantastic Spiritualities: Monsters, Heroes, and the Contemporary Religious Imagination. Jobling, Jannine New York: Continuum/T & T Clark, 2010. 216 p. Subjects: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1997-2003) (TV); FANTASY; HEROES; LE GUIN, URSULA K.; MONSTERS; PULLMAN, PHILIP; RELIGION; ROWLING, J. K.; SPIRITUALITY Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record
Flag This Row	Female Action Heroes: A Guide to Women in Comics, Video Games, Film and Television. Knight, Gladys L. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press, 2010. 341 p. Subjects: HEROES; WOMEN IN SF AND FANTASY Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record

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