"Vulgarity" in The Woman Warrior -----A Stylistic exploration Abstract: The Woman Warrior is a book written by the great contemporary Chinese American woman writer Maxine Hong Kingston. ... Keywords: Vulgarity postmodern readerly writerly The Woman Warrior is a book written by the great contemporary Chinese American woman writer Maxine Hong Kingston. ... Here I want to point out that paralleling with those vulgar sections in The Woman Warrior, which have been illustrated by the examples above, there are many tasteful, refined, ...

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The comic book character Superman is also an iconic cultural symbol, representing a heroic figure that has become the personification of strength. ... The interlinking threads that combine the past and present stories are masterfully woven by the use of background notes and reflections. ... The recent popular adaptation of Xena Warrior princess has popularised Amazon representation. The concept of a woman warrior as outlined in both the Xena series and Cassandra is distanced from the cultural familiarity, where a woman is often the object of war not the protagonist. ... In Xena a woman occup...

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Tolkien's Archetypal Hero(s) When J.R.R Tolkien published the first book in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, in 1954 he broke ground and paved the way for fantasy all the way to the twenty-first century -- a century that still holds Tolkien's works on a glorious pedestal that stands far and above those in his shadow. ... At the beginning of The Fellowship of the Rings, the first book in the trilogy, Frodo departs, accompanied by his friends: embarking on the journey to destroy the ring by casting it into the Crack of Doom in the land of Mordor as he promised Bilbo. The second half ...

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Introduction Although one cannot tell a book by its cover, we often look to physical appearance to give us clues about a person's sanity, morality, intelligence, and abilities. ... Roman soldiers who encountered Briton warriors adopted tattooing themselves, and spread the practice wherever Roman legions were sent. ... Women's ability to give birth is revered as sacred by the Ba Thonga people, and they believe that for anyone to see a woman before her tattoos have healed would endanger the life source of the village. ...

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In Homer's The Odyssey, the protagonist of the story, Odysseus, was a valiant warrior, who along with his men fought in the famed Trojan War and came out as the victors. Now, Odysseus and his brave warrior troops must return home to reunite with their people and loved ones again. ... In book five of The Odyssey, Homer perceptively describes the contempt Poseidon feels towards Odysseus in the following passage: But now Poseidon, god of the earthquake, saw him- just returning home from his Ethiopian friends, from miles away on the Solymi mountain-range and it made his fury boil e...

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The setting of the book is in eastern Nigeria, on the eve of British colonialism in Africa. ... At one point in the book, Okonkwo remembers hearing one of his playmates calling his father anagbala,? which was the word for woman, but all described a man who had taken not titles (13). ... As a young man, Okonkwo had been very successful wrestler, and as he grew older he became a well-known warrior. ...

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Within this novel Alexie manages to merge together the mythical and romanticized view of Native Americans (although Alexie "has been at pains to deflate just such romantic myths, whether steward of the earth, stoical warrior, shaman or savage") with a more realistic, and perhaps somewhat depressing, account of Native Americans regarding matters such as racism, religion, the commodification of Native American culture and life on the reservations including alcoholism and health services. ... Also Alexie writes that "Indian women had never paid much attention to him, because he d...

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Achilles as the son of Thetis has a special relationship which allows him to communicate with the gods by way of Thetis's favor in the eyes of Zeus (Il. 1.490) Both characters are headstrong warriors; the epics do relate their preeminence in battle. ... Enkidu undergoes a process of civilizing when he sleeps with the woman Shamhat, and is then disturbed by Gilgamesh's right at weddings to be the first to sleep with the new wife. ... In book I, Patroclus is shown to be obedient to Achilles (Il. 1.408), but slightly before that Achilles refers to him as diogenes, which is an obvious s...

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However, in authorizing their works by utilizing the material produced by auctores, medieval writers faced a dilemma "they discovered that the authoritative literary material that comprised the invaluable truths was often contradictory, confusing and inaccurate, as reflected in Book III of the House of Fame: "Oon seyde Omere made lyes, feynynge in hys poetries- (ll. 1477-78). ... Chaucer's revision of the Aeneas and Dido episode depicted in Book I of the House of Fame represents a product of the divergent and conflicting literary traditions established by two authoritative giants o...

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Normally the Bildungsroman is decisive; contrastingly Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit remains open and ambiguous as Jeanette wishes to be saved by 'a woman in another place' and this possibility leaves the novel in a state of limbo because the reader doesn't know if she finds it. ... Indeed, the full title of the book is "Jane Eyre: An Autobiography" and it is therefore written in first person. ... Feminists may disagree with this view that women are the weak, gentler figures and therefore are unable to cope with their own emotions thus having to lean on each other, ...

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Marlow and his crew come across a hut with stacked firewood, together with a note saying that the wood is for them but that they should approach cautiously. ... The pilgrims bring Kurtz out of the station-house on a stretcher, and a large group of native warriors pours out of the forest and surrounds them. ... A beautiful native woman, apparently Kurtz's mistress, appears on the shore and stares out at the ship. ... At the very least, the incidental scenery of the book offers a harsh picture of colonial enterprise. ...

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For instance, many of the Greek vases depicting women show them handing warriors their helmets as they prepare for battle, and so some scholars point to the passive role of women. ... Present-day interpretations of these tales are often moot regarding woman's status, but the ideas of the stories vastly impacted Greece's history. ... In a fascinating book entitled Lost Goddesses of Early Greece, Sharleen Spretnak, remarks about the rich oral tradition where goddesses reigned supreme. ...

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What kind of person would she be without Pelele She would not be a woman at all." "The plug of wood in the lips, which became little by little a disk, and then a real plaque, was in some manner a sign of possession of the husband of the Djinja woman. ... The septum piercing is particularly prevalent among warrior cultures, this probably has to do with the fact that large tusks through the septum give the face a fierce appearance. ...

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One can easily imagine the state of mind of a warrior or any freeman whose condition through defeat in war radically changes from one day to the next, as he becomes a slave: as in classical antiquity, prisoners of war were automatically subject to being sold. ...

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Note that these myths were the Norse people's religion. ... These realms are subdivided into nine worlds, peopled variously by gods, slain warriors, elves, humans, dwarves, giants, and the dead. ... The many stories in Norse mythology all follow this form of outline, as well almost every creation myth, every story, every book, and everyone in their daily lives. ... Thor finds out that not only is he going to have to venture into Jotunheim (the giants' homeland) without his hammer, but he's going to have to pretend to be a woman in the process. ... Not only is this hard for Thor ...

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