1 option
Myriad faces of heroes and heroines : folkloric tradition and modern contemporaries in Asia / Julian Patrick Ward, Kelly Kar Yue Chan, Chi Sum Garfield Lau, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Asia in transition (Springer (Firm)) ; v. 28.
- Asia in transition ; v. 28
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Heroes--Asia.
- Heroes.
- Heroes in literature.
- Heroes in motion pictures.
- Folklore--Asia.
- Folklore.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : Springer, 2025.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Transformation of Mythical Heroines throughout History and Narrative Classics
- Chapter1 The Yue Maiden An Independent Heroine and Her History in China
- Chapter2 The Power of Tears and Self-Assertion The Changing Meaning of Suffering in Binu and the Great Wall (2006)
- Chapter3 Forbidden Love unto Death and Metamorphosis Tragic Heroines from an Interplay between Celtic and Chinese Myths, and the Representation of Opera
- Chapter4 Heroic Princesses Across Cultural Horizons A Comparative Analysis of Tomoe Gozen, Mulan, and Bari Gongju Beyond Folklore
- Part II Heroes and Heroines in Chinese Rituals and Narrative Traditions
- Chapter5 Re-Assembling Fragments Across Time and Space Folk Narrative Translation in Lady Precious Stream
- Chapter6 Crossing a Millennium Cult Lord Guan Patrols the City
- Chapter7 A Reflection of China Cheng Dieyis Loss of Identity in Farewell to My Concubine (1993)
- Part III Immortalizing Narratives across Boundaries of Multiple Dimensions
- Chapter8 Journeys of Peripheral Characters Foreign Sojourners and their British Frenemy in Joseph Conrad and Lao She
- Chapter9 Spatiality and Myth-Remaking in Contemporary Chinese Multimedia A Study of Goose Mountain and Tales of the Mirror
- Chapter10 The Cult of Mummies in the Mummy Series.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 11, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9789819789597
- 9819789591
- Publisher Number:
- 90102076217
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.