Exam 44: The Vampire As Hero: Tales of the Undead in a Contemporary Context, Eva M Thury

Vampire stories are typically set in a world which is rather_____________, except for the presence of vampires.

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Question 21

Edward is the hero of the Twilight series, because he is the one who keeps Bella____________________.

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Question 22

In examining our enchantment with villains, it is important to note the predominant characteristic of our age, _____________________________________________.

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Question 23

Anita Blake battles a series of terrifying____________________ that are associated with the "bad breast."

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Question 24

Our political climate has resulted in the reformulation of the image of the vampire as a _________________.

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Question 25

If anger characterizes our era, as suggested in the beginning of this chapter, then the person who can conquer that anger is a____________________.

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Exam 44: The Vampire As Hero: Tales of the Undead in a Contemporary Context, Eva M Thury

Vampire stories are typically set in a world which is rather_____________, except for the presence of vampires.

Edward is the hero of the Twilight series, because he is the one who keeps Bella____________________.

In examining our enchantment with villains, it is important to note the predominant characteristic of our age, _____________________________________________.

Anita Blake battles a series of terrifying____________________ that are associated with the "bad breast."

Our political climate has resulted in the reformulation of the image of the vampire as a _________________.

If anger characterizes our era, as suggested in the beginning of this chapter, then the person who can conquer that anger is a____________________.

What Is Myth

Ways of Understanding Myth

Greece: Hesiod

Rome: Ovid Creation

The Bible: Genesis Creation

Mesopotamia: Enuma Elish

Icelandicnorse: Prose Edda Creation

North America: Stories From the Zuni, Hopi, and Navajo Southwest; and From the Iroquois League Northeastern Woodlands

Africa: Uganda and Nigeria

China: Nü Kwa, Kuan Yin, and Monkey

Mesoamerica: Popol Vuh

Rome: Ovid Flood

The Bible: Genesis Flood

Icelandicnorse: Prose Edda Ragnarok

Theory: Joseph Campbell, the Hero With a Thousand Faces, Dave Whomsley

Mesopotamia: the Epic of Gilgamesh

Applying Theory: a Lévi-Straussian Analysis of the Epic of Gilgamesh, G S Kirk

India: the Ramayana

Icelandicnorse: Prose Edda Heroes

Arthurian Legend: the Holy Grail, Donna Lynne Rondolone

Africa: the Mwindo Epic

Greece: Oedipus the King, Sophocles

Theory: the Structural Study of Myth, Claude Lévi-Strauss

North America: Raven

African and African-American Trickster Stories

Greece: Prometheus

Applying Theory: Different Versions of Myths

Theory: the Forest of Symbols, Victor Turner

Greece: Demeter and Persephone

Egypt: Isis and Osiris

Applying Theory: Meals in the Bible, Mary Douglas

Icelandicnorse: the Rituals of Iceland, Hr Ellis Davidson

Greece: Heracles and Dionysus

Theory: Man and His Symbols, Cg Jung

Applying Theory: How to Perform a Jungian Analysis

Theory: the Morphology of the Folktale, Vladimir Propp

Applying Theory: a Proppian Analysis of the Wizard of Oz

Germany: Grimms Household Tales

Rome: Cupid and Psyche, Apuleius

Applying Theory: Highlighting Different Aspects of the Same Tale Using Multiple Analyses

Daniel Boone: Building the Myth Around the Man, Richard Slotkin

Stagecoach and Firefly: the Journey Into the Unknown in Westerns and Science Fiction, Fred Erisman

Harry Potter: a Rankian Analysis of the Hero of Hogwarts, M Katherine Grimes

Poetry and Myth

Yellow Woman: Native-American Oral Myth in a Contemporary Context, Leslie Marmon Silko

Narrative and Myth

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