The Heroine with 1001 Faces / Тысячеодноликая героиня [Героиня с тысячью и одним лицом]
Год издания: 2021
Автор: Tatar Maria / Тэтар Мария
Издательство: Liveright Publishing Corporation (29 Oct. 2021)
ISBN: 978-1631498817
Язык: Английский
Формат: EPUB
Качество: Издательский макет или текст (eBook)
Интерактивное оглавление: Да
Количество страниц: 304
Описание: "Тысячеодноликая героиня [Героиня с тысячью и одним лицом]" Марии Тэтар (издание на английском языке).
World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman.
How do we explain our newfound cultural investment in empathy and social justice? For decades, Joseph Campbell had defined our cultural aspirations in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, emphasising the value of seeking glory and earning immortality. His work became the playbook for Hollywood, with its many male-centric quest narratives.
Challenging the models in Campbell’s canonical work, Maria Tatar explores how heroines, rarely wielding a sword and deprived of a pen, have flown beneath the radar even as they have been bent on social missions. Using the domestic arts and storytelling skills, they have displayed audacity, curiosity, and care as they struggled to survive and change the reigning culture. Animating figures from Ovid’s Philomela, her tongue severed yet still weaving a tale about sexual assault, to Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander, a high-tech wizard seeking justice for victims of a serial killer, The Heroine with 1,001 Faces creates a luminous arc that takes us from ancient times to the present.
50 illustrations
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Review
"Rewarding.... Tatar defines a version of heroism that 'is driven... by attentive care, an affect that is triggered by openness to the world'... The overarching conversational tone and modern-day relevance give the book color [and] arguments are well supported with plenty of examples pulled from all corners of literature." --
Publishers Weekly
"From Penelope and Pandora to Katniss Everdeen and Lisbeth Salander, the ‘hero's journey’ gets a much-needed makeover... Starting with Greek mythology and Scheherezade and moving through the centuries all the way to the Game of Thrones series and The Queen's Gambit, Tatar incisively explores women's reinvention of heroism to embrace empathy, compassion, and care, often to pursue social justice... The book really takes off when it gets to contemporary culture, particularly in a section that identifies a female version of the ‘trickster’ archetype in Everdeen and Salander. Of this lineage, among the shared interesting traits not traditionally associated with women characters is a prodigious appetite... As Wonder Woman might say, Suffering Sappho! This book is fascinating, fun, and consistently enlightening." --
-Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"More than a rebuttal to Joseph Campbell’s seminal text The Hero with A Thousand Faces, Tatar’s book offers the infinite experiences of women.... Engaging with the works of Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Toni Morrison, Anne Sexton, and many others, Tatar explores the historical and textual difficulties of having a voice.... A necessary and compelling read for scholars, activists, and storytellers interested in inclusive revisions to the hero’s canon." --
-Asa Drake, Library Journal, starred review
From the Back Cover
"A profound and heartfelt offering from Maria Tatar. . . . Her work suggests that the threads of the Greek fates, and of Penelope's handiwork, so trickily woven by day and unraveled at night, are of the same clever substance as that from which the spider Charlotte weaves words into her miraculous web. This book, like Charlotte's final web publication, is, simply stated: radiant."
--Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and The Brides of Maracoor
"In Greek mythology, Philomela's rapist cut out her tongue so that she wouldn't expose him. Today's assaulters rely on nondisclosure agreements, but their goal is the same: to silence women. . . . The Heroine with 1,001 Faces traces sources ancient and contemporary--from ancient mythology and The Thousand and One Nights to Charlotte's Web and #MeToo--to demonstrate both the revolutionary power of women's speech and the shocking ways in which its suppression is embedded in the very foundations of our culture."
--Ruth Franklin, author of Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
"This erudite and lively work mixes inventive reading of classic tales with a survey of modern heroines in books and movies. . . . Going forward, everyone from kindergarten teachers to movie moguls will have to have The Heroine with 1,001 Faces at hand before they begin their work."
--Lewis Hyde, author of Trickster Makes This World
"Finally. We had to wait far too long for this book! And of course, Maria Tatar wrote it. . . . The Heroine with 1,001 Faces brings life, but she also weaves the yarns of fate and delivers death. Tatar knows where to find her behind all her masks."
--Cornelia Funke, author of Inkheart
"In this volume, Maria Tatar draws on her decades of scholarship in mythology and folklore to reevaluate our notions of the concept of heroism to transcend gendered divisions. . . . A deeply personal and lively investigation."
--Henry Louis Gates Jr.
About the Author
Maria Tatar is the John L. Loeb Research Professor and a Senior Fellow at Harvard University. The editor of the Norton Critical Edition of The Classic Fairy Tales and The Annotated Brothers Grimm, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
