東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

Powerful Wounds: The Essential Mytho...

Jefferies, Leontine.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Powerful Wounds: The Essential Mythological Formations for the Superhero/heroine Archetype in American Popular Culture.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Powerful Wounds: The Essential Mythological Formations for the Superhero/heroine Archetype in American Popular Culture./
Author:	Jefferies, Leontine.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	259 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-09A(E).
Subject:	Folklore. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10277309
ISBN:	9781369735338

Powerful Wounds: The Essential Mythological Formations for the Superhero/heroine Archetype in American Popular Culture.
Jefferies, Leontine.

Powerful Wounds: The Essential Mythological Formations for the Superhero/heroine Archetype in American Popular Culture. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 259 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2017.

The superhero and superheroine in American culture are powerful symbols representing the society, its flaws, strengths, and redemptive qualities. American comic books and the characters within the mythological narratives are therapeutic because they enhance our understanding of ourselves and our daily lives. These heroic figures are mythically relevant and powerful to the culture in which they exist because they are the narratives, aspirations, dreams, goals, shadows, wounds, scars, failures, successes, and visions belonging to us and our transforming psyche. The stories in which these mythic figures exist provide the culture visuals of who we are in our souls by mirroring back to us what we need to see for our wholeness.

ISBN: 9781369735338Subjects--Topical Terms:

528224
Folklore.

Powerful Wounds: The Essential Mythological Formations for the Superhero/heroine Archetype in American Popular Culture.
LDR:02694nmm a2200313 4500 001 2126648
005 20171128150729.5
008 180830s2017 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9781369735338
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI10277309
035 $a AAI10277309
040 $a MiAaPQ $c MiAaPQ
100 1 $a Jefferies, Leontine. $3 3288754
245 1 0 $a Powerful Wounds: The Essential Mythological Formations for the Superhero/heroine Archetype in American Popular Culture.
260 1 $a Ann Arbor : $b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, $c 2017
300 $a 259 p.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-09(E), Section: A.
500 $a Adviser: Evans Lansing Smith.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2017.
520 $a The superhero and superheroine in American culture are powerful symbols representing the society, its flaws, strengths, and redemptive qualities. American comic books and the characters within the mythological narratives are therapeutic because they enhance our understanding of ourselves and our daily lives. These heroic figures are mythically relevant and powerful to the culture in which they exist because they are the narratives, aspirations, dreams, goals, shadows, wounds, scars, failures, successes, and visions belonging to us and our transforming psyche. The stories in which these mythic figures exist provide the culture visuals of who we are in our souls by mirroring back to us what we need to see for our wholeness.
520 $a Just as human beings possess a weakness or wound, so do these heroic figures revolve their lives around them because they serve as an example of our personal fragmentation. The superhero/heroine are in the distinctive processes of re-wounding in their narratives, and this cycle is representative of our lives and experiences. It is necessary for the superhero/heroine to develop with the wound because their archetype reveals deeper implications when associated with the trauma. These heroic figure's wounds reflect us mirroring our traumas, horrors, conflicts, and life experiences. Just as classical mythology represents long since gone cultures, so do the superheroes and superheroines represent our present culture. Although the mythic superheroes/heroines are not as established as centuries worth of classical mythology as given us, the heroic figures give us an opportunity to understand ourselves better mythologically, archetypally, and psychologically.
590 $a School code: 1142.
650 4 $a Folklore. $3 528224
650 4 $a Cultural anthropology. $3 2122764
650 4 $a American studies. $3 2122720
690 $a 0358
690 $a 0326
690 $a 0323
710 2 $a Pacifica Graduate Institute. $b Mythological Studies. $3 2099674
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 78-09A(E).
790 $a 1142
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2017
793 $a English
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10277309