Subject: Heroes in literature

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Books under this subject

• The Science of Superheroes by Lois H. Gresh (101 copies)
• Empire's Old Clothes by Ariel Dorfman (80 copies)
• The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic… by Gregory Nagy (70 copies)
• An Anthology of Beowulf Criticism. by Lewis E. Nicholson (53 copies)
• The Great Pulp Heroes by Don Hutchison (50 copies)
• Mabon and the Mysteries of Britain: An Exploration of the… by Caitlin Matthews (49 copies)
• Mabon and the Guardians of Celtic Britain: Hero Myths in… by Caitlin Matthews (48 copies)
• The Hero: A Study in Tradition, Myth and Drama by Lord Raglan (48 copies)
• Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien (47 copies)
• The Hero and the Goddess: The Odyssey as Mystery and… by Jean Houston (44 copies)
• The Rough Guide to Superheroes (Rough Guide Reference) by Paul Simpson (40 copies)
• The Mortal Hero: An Introduction to Homer's Iliad by Seth L. Schein (38 copies)
• Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers: The Makers of Heroic… by L. Sprague de Camp (33 copies)
• The Ulysses Theme by W. B. Stanford (32 copies)
• Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes: Slaves of Passion by Lily B. Campbell (30 copies)
• Choice of Heroes by Mark Gerzon (29 copies)
• Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles' Tragic Hero and His Time by Bernard Knox (27 copies)
• The Hero And the Blues by Albert Murray (23 copies)
• Classics and Trash: Traditions and Taboos in High… by Harriett Hawkins (19 copies)
• Somewhere I Have Never Travelled by Thomas Van Nortwick (19 copies)
• The Beowulf poet; a collection of critical essays by Donald K. Fry (18 copies)
• Unsung Heroes of The Lord of the Rings: From the Page to… by Lynnette R. Porter (16 copies)
• Interpretations of Beowulf by R. D. Fulk (16 copies)
• A Critical Companion to Beowulf by Andy Orchard (14 copies)
• Achilles and Hector: The Homeric Hero by Seth Benardete (14 copies)
• The Wisdom of the Outlaw: The Boyhood Deeds of Finn in… by Joseph Falaky Nagy (14 copies)
• The Epic Hero by Dean A. Miller (14 copies)
• The schlemiel as modern hero by Ruth Wisse (13 copies)
• Oedipus Tyrannus: Tragic Heroism and the Limits of… by Charles Segal (13 copies)
• Aspects of the Táin by J. P. Mallory (11 copies)
• The language of heroes : speech and performance in the… by Richard P. Martin (10 copies)
• Return of the Heroes: The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars,… by Hal Colebatch (10 copies)
• Female Hero in American and British Literature by Carol Pearson (9 copies)
• Approaches to Teaching Beowulf (Approaches to Teaching… by Jess B. Bessinger (9 copies)
• The Hero in Literature by Victor H. Brombert (9 copies)
• Beowulf: An introduction to the studies of the poem with a… by R W Chambers (8 copies)
• Bitter Carnival by Michael Andre Bernstein (8 copies)
• The Changing Face of the Hero (A Quest book) by Rodney Standen (8 copies)
• The Hero in Hemingway's Short Stories by Joseph DeFalco (7 copies)
• The Germanic Hero: Politics and Pragmatism in Early… by Brian Murdoch (7 copies)
• The absurd hero in American fiction: Updike, Styron, Bellow… by David D. Galloway (6 copies)
• The Vanishing Hero by Sean O'Faolain (6 copies)
• Momentary Monsters: Lucan and His Heroes (Cornell Studies… by Walter Ralph Johnson (6 copies)
• Introduction to Beowulf by Edward B. Irving (5 copies)
• Aristophanes and the Comic Hero by Cedric H. Whitman (4 copies)
• The Herculean hero in Marlowe, Chapman, Shakespeare and… by Eugene M. Waith (3 copies)
• Reality and the heroic pattern; last plays of Ibsen,… by David Grene (3 copies)
• Yeats and the heroic ideal by Alex Zwerdling (2 copies)
• Heroes and Heroines in Medieval English Literature: A… (2 copies)
• Palantamilar vīrappanpātu : oppilakkiyak kanippu by Katir Makātēvan (2 copies)

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