The Hero

The Hero
Author: Baltasar Gracián y Morales
Publisher:
Total Pages: 480
Release: 1726
Genre: Aerodynamics, Supersonic
ISBN:

Handsome Heroes & Vile Villains

Handsome Heroes & Vile Villains
Author: Amy M. Davis
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2014-01-31
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0861969073

From dwarves to princes, heroes to heartbreakers, the Disney treatment of male characters in the studio’s animated features. One of PopSugar’s Best Books for Women (2013) From the iconic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) to Tangled, the 2010 retelling of Rapunzel, Handsome Heroes and Vile Villains looks at the portrayal of male characters in Disney films from the perspective of masculinity studies and feminist film theory. This companion volume to Good Girls and Wicked Witches places these depictions within the context of Hollywood and American popular culture at the time of each film’s release. “Within her idealism and love for the House of the Mouse, it seems Davis is on to something. Whether idealistic or delusional, the Disney she talks about seems to be a thing that’s waiting just around the corner.” —PopMatters

The Incompetent Hero

The Incompetent Hero
Author: Douglas Thomas
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2022-06-10
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:

Echo 1, a soldier raised on the battlefield, fights with the aid of his combat AI and technologically advanced equipment. After a fierce battle, he finds himself in a new world without access to his equipment or his combat AI. He soon learns that he is one of the seven legendary heroes summoned to save humanity from a demon threat. At the same time, there is a struggle for power in the kingdom that summoned him. The king has been killed in battle, and his successor has yet to be chosen. The candidates for the crown are trying to undermine each other and prove their worth by saving the kingdom and the world with the strength of the summoned heroes. Now, armed only with a shield, he must navigate a world that views him as weak and incompetent while he finds a way to repair his combat AI before the next demon attack.

The Princess and the Dragon and Other Stories About Unlikely Heroes

The Princess and the Dragon and Other Stories About Unlikely Heroes
Author: Francesca Astraea
Publisher: This is a Real Job
Total Pages: 107
Release: 2020-12-09
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1838204601

On the magical island of the Three Kingdoms, disparaged teenagers quest to save their people from dragons, duplicity and dictatorship. This is a book of fairy tales, but not of happy endings. Don’t expect to fall asleep to sweet dreams when you’re done. Content warnings: violence, abuse, kidnapping, blood, homophobia. Please consume responsibly.

The Arthur of the North

The Arthur of the North
Author: Marianne E. Kalinke
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2015-11-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1783164557

The book is a comprehensive survey of medieval and early modern Arthurian literature in the Scandinavian countries The book analyses the transmission of a foreign courtly literature in the non-courtly culture of Iceland The book surveys the acculturation of foreign narrative and style to indigenous literary forms in the North