The Myriad Faces of Heroes and Heroines

Part 1 Transformation of Mythical Heroines throughout History and Narrative Classics.- Chapter1 The Yue Maiden An Independent Heroine and Her History in China.- Chapter2 The Power of Tears and Self-Assertion The Changing Meaning of Suffering in Binu and the Great Wall (2006).- Chapter3 Forbidden Love unto Death and Metamorphosis Tragic Heroines from an Interplay between Celtic and Chinese Myths, and the Representation of Opera.- Chapter4 Heroic Princesses Across Cultural Horizons A Comparative Analysis of Tomoe Gozen, Mulan, and Bari Gongju Beyond Folklore.- Part II Heroes and Heroines in Chinese Rituals and Narrative Traditions.- Chapter5 Re-Assembling Fragments Across Time and Space Folk Narrative Translation in Lady Precious Stream.- Chapter6 Crossing a Millennium Cult Lord Guan Patrols the City.- Chapter7 A Reflection of China Cheng Dieyi’s Loss of Identity in Farewell to My Concubine (1993).- Part III Immortalizing Narratives across Boundaries of Multiple Dimensions.- Chapter8 Journeys of Peripheral Characters Foreign Sojourners and their British Frenemy in Joseph Conrad and Lao She.- Chapter9 Spatiality and Myth-Remaking in Contemporary Chinese Multimedia A Study of Goose Mountain and Tales of the Mirror.- Chapter10 The Cult of Mummies in the Mummy Series.

• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.03.2025
• Autor/Autorin: Julian Patrick Ward
• Reihe: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
• Format: E-Book
• Dateiformat: PDF
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• Dateigröße: 10.2 MB
• Verlag: SPRINGER
• Sprache: Englisch
• Umfang: 250 Seiten
• ISBN: 9789819789597
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