Thomas A. Shippey
Forfatter af Heroes and Legends: The Most Influential Characters of Literature
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Old English verse / T. A. Shippey 1 eksemplar
Heroes and Legends Course Guidebook 1 eksemplar
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- Kanonisk navn
- Thomas A. Shippey
- Juridisk navn
- Shippey, Thomas Alan
- Fødselsdato
- 1943-09-09
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Fødested
- Calcutta, India
- Uddannelse
- Cambridge University
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Anmeldelser
Statistikker
- Værker
- 5
- Medlemmer
- 79
- Popularitet
- #226,897
- Vurdering
- 3.5
- Anmeldelser
- 4
- ISBN
- 7
This audio set consists 24 lectures of 30 minutes each, arranged in two volumes/ CDs. In content and quality, it is entirely up to the high standards of selections of The Great Books series. Below are the "heroes" (and heroines) considered, to each of which is devoted a 30 minute lecture. I recommend this work to others who love English language fiction.
Frodo Baggins -- A Reluctant Hero
Odysseus -- The Trickster Hero
Aeneas -- The Straight Arrow
Guinevere -- A Heroine with Many Faces
The Wife of Bath -- An Independent Woman
Cressida -- A Love Betrayed
Beowulf -- A Hero with Hidden Depths
Thor -- A Very Human God
Robin Hood -- The Outlaw Hero
Don Quixote -- The First of the Wannabes
Robinson Crusoe -- A Lone survivor
Elizabeth Bennett -- A Proper Pride
Natty Bumpo/ Woodrow Call -- Frontier Heroes
Uncle Tom -- The Hero as Martyr
Huckleberry Finn -- Free Spirit of America
Sherlock Holmes -- The First Great Detective
Dracula -- The Allure of the Monster
Mowgli -- The Wolf Child
Celie (from the Color Purple) -- A Woman Who Wins Through
Winston Smith (1984) -- The Hero We Never Want to Be
James Bond -- A Dangerous Protector
Fairy Tale Heroines -- New Style Princesses Princesses
Lisbeth Salander from the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) -- Avenging Female Fury
Harry Potter -- Whistle-Blower Hero… (mere)