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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	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
Flag This Row	fictitious characters of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien in relation to their medieval sources, The. Rogers, Deborah Champion Webster Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1972. 220 p. (DAI-A 34(1), p. 334, July 1973.) Subjects: CHARACTERS, NON-HUMAN; CHRONICLES OF NARNIA, THE (SERIES); COSMIC TRILOGY (RANSOM TRILOGY) (SPACE TRILOGY) (SERIES); HEROES; HOBBIT, THE, OR THERE AND BACK AGAIN (NOVEL); LEWIS, C. S.; LORD OF THE RINGS, THE (NOVELS); MAGICIANS; MEDIEVAL PERIOD; SURPRISED BY JOY (LEWIS) (BOOK); TOLKIEN, J. R. R.; VILLAINS; WOMEN IN SF AND FANTASY Options: Download this record ; E-mail this record

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