The Once and Future Hero: Understanding the Hero in Quest Fantasy
This paper examines the figure of the hero in Quest Fantasy novels, George R. R Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time. It employs Frye’s taxonomy for the categorization of genres and Bakhtin’s seminal ideas on the Epic and the Novel as references to analyse the charac...
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| Language: | English |
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Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research
2017-03-01
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| Series: | Fafnir |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.finfar.org/articles/the-once-and-future-hero-understanding-the-hero-in-quest-fantasy/ |