The Feminization of Quest-Romance: Radical Departures

by Dana A. Heller

What happens when a woman dares to imagine herself a hero? Questing, she sets out for unknown regions. Lighting a torch, she elicits from the darkness stories never told or heard before. The woman hero sails against the tides of great legends that recount the adventures of heroic men, legends deemed universal, timeless, and essential to our understanding of the natural order that holds us and completes us in its spiral. Yet these myths and rituals...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292724713
• ISBN13: 9780292724716
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 151 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"