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Master Of Doom By Doom Mastered: Heroism, Fate, And Death In The Children Of Húrin, Jesse Mitchell
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.
Rochester The Renewer: The Byronic Hero And The Messiah As Elements In The King Elessar, John Houghton
Rochester The Renewer: The Byronic Hero And The Messiah As Elements In The King Elessar, John Houghton
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
Analyzes the character of Aragorn as an example of, and transformation of, the “Byronic” hero of nineteenth-century literature, through the addition of the redeeming and renewing qualities of a Messianic figure.