The Myth of the American Superhero
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The Myth of the American Superhero
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The Myth of the American Superhero is a scholarly non-fiction book by Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence. It describes the idealized, fantasy violence so distinctive of American pop culture. The authors propose that the American heroic ideal, conveyed in formula stories of "the American monomyth," is explicitly anti-democratic and contagious. Crusading loners, attracted by guns, bombs, and the call to destroy evil, act out the premises of the myth with tragic consequences. This book argues
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2007-01-30T12:32:55Z
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2024-08-29T05:26:37Z
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