The Heroine with 1001 Faces

The Heroine with 1001 Faces
Maria Tatar
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Paperback
h211 x 140mm - 368pg
18 Oct 2022 US
International import eta 10-30 days
9781324092360
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How do we explain our newfound cultural investment in empathy and social justice? For decades, Joseph Campbell had defined our cultural aspirations in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, emphasising the value of seeking glory and earning immortality. His work became the playbook for Hollywood, with its many male-centric quest narratives. Unsatisfied with Campbell' s once-canonical work, Maria Tatar explores how heroines, rarely wielding a sword and deprived of a pen, have flown beneath the radar even as they have been bent on social missions. Using the domestic arts and storytelling skills, they have displayed audacity, curiosity and care as they struggled to survive and change the reigning culture. Animating figures from Ovid' s Philomela, her tongue severed yet still weaving a tale about sexual assault, to Stieg Larsson' s Lisbeth Salander, a high-tech wizard seeking justice for victims of a serial killer, The Heroine with 1,001 Faces creates a luminous arc that takes us from ancient times to the present.
Rewarding. . . . Tatar defines a version of heroism that ' is driven. . . by attentive care, an affect that is triggered by openness to the world' . . . The overarching conversational tone and modern-day relevance give the book color [and] arguments are well supported with plenty of examples pulled from all corners of literature. -- "Publishers Weekly"
Maria Tatar is the John L. Loeb Research Professor and a Senior Fellow at Harvard University. The editor of the Norton Critical Edition of The Classic Fairy Tales and The Annotated Brothers Grimm, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781324092360
Published: 18 Oct 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Paperback
Height: 211mm
Width: 140mm
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 320g
Pages: 368

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