Date of Award
2006
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Hokenson, Jan W.
Abstract
Going back to Gilgamesh and Achilles as foundations for surveying centuries of protagonists we now call heroic, while synthesizing and modifying critical forerunners, this study reviews the patterns and the constituent elements of the literary hero both synchronically and diachronically, in order to trace changing figurations of the heroic ideal in Western literature, from texts of antiquity to modernism, and with particular emphasis on Anglo-American and French traditions.
Extent
78 p.
Recommended Citation
Maybee, Teresa M., "Figurations of the literary hero" (2006). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009. 1064.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_5/1064
Identifier
FADT13411
Comments
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2006.|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters