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English Language and Literature

2010

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Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron. Cain

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Master Of Doom By Doom Mastered: Heroism, Fate, And Death In The Children Of Húrin, Jesse Mitchell Oct 2010

Master Of Doom By Doom Mastered: Heroism, Fate, And Death In The Children Of Húrin, Jesse Mitchell

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

This extensive study of Túrin Turambar uses two frameworks to examine his character and story: that of the Byronic Hero (with a side glance at the Gothic Villain in order to differentiate the two), and that of the Absurd Hero, exemplified by Camus’s Sisyphus.

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