| Description |
1 online resource (255 p.) |
| Series |
Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture Series |
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Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Gods, Monarchs and Monsters -- (INTER)Section I Ancient Worlds and Modern Subjectivity -- 1 Enheduanna: A Triple Threat: Princess, Priestess and Poet -- 2 In King Cambyses' Vein: Representing Achaemenid Royal Figures in The Godly Queen Hester, The Story of King Darius and Cambyses -- 3 Ancient Modernity in Agatha Christie's Akhnaton -- (INTER)Section II Epic Cycles of the Divine, the Human and the Monstrous |
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4 Gilgamesh: The First Bildungsroman, or Portrait of the King Becoming a Man -- 5 Kingship and Vedic Literature: Inflections, Deflections and Reflections -- 6 Cinematic Pentheus the Human King and His Cousin the God Dionysus -- (INTER)Section III Royal Archetypes and American Culture -- 7 After Homer: Monarchal Peacemaking and Eco-Survival in Anna Lee Waldo's Epic Sacajawea -- 8 Royal Archetypes and Comic Book Characters: An Interview With Al Milgrom -- 9 Royalty and Heroism in Comic Books: Interviews With Gerry Conway, Don Glut, Bob McLeod, Walt Simonson and Louise Simonson |
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(INTER)Section IV (Re)-Writing the Medieval Monarch -- 10 The Changing Destiny of King Arthur in Medieval Romances and Verse Narratives -- 11 Time-Haunted Mutability, Cognition, and Christopher Marlowe's Edward II -- 12 King Arthur, Baseball, and Gangsters: Cinematic Embracing and Subverting of Le Morte d'Arthur in The Natural (1984) and The Godfather (1972) -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Kings and rulers in literature.
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Kings and rulers in motion pictures.
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Kings and rulers in art.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781003830511 |
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100383051X |
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