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Item A shattered visage: the remythologizing of the British literary hero after World War I(Texas Tech University, 1999-05) McLure, Victoria ElizabethHeroes have always been a part of national culture. They have slain real and metaphorical dragons and provided the populace with models to emulate and admire. However, there is a dark side to this hero worship. While heroes are a necessary and desirable aspect of any culture, their influence can sometimes prove damaging because their model is unrealistic and when people fall short of that model, disillusionment, sometimes on a grand scale, can occur.Item Four images of John Paul Jones in nineteenth-century American literature(Texas Tech University, 1973-08) Emerson, Emily MargaretNot availableItem Item Myth, preference, and processing(Texas Tech University, 1998-05) Brant, LindaThe objective of this investigation was to explore the cognitive representation, aesthetic appreciation, and on-line processing of the hero motif in short stories. The overall goals were to determine if participants had a schema for the hero motif, and to examine the effects of variations in episode content and sequence on preference ratings, recall of story ideas, and reading rate for specific sentences. These goals were pursued in one pilot study, and two experiments. Results from the pilot study indicated that undergraduate students had a schema for the hero motif, and that they were able to predict events in typical hero stories with high levels of accuracy and confidence. Results from Experiments 1 and 2 indicated that variations in episode content and sequence had virtually no effect on preference ratings. However, these variations did influence recall of story information. The most memorable hero stories contained (1)episodes that were presented in a logical, temporal sequence, (2) typical beginning episodes, and (3) typical middle episodes. In contrast, story endings were best remembered if they contained atypical information. In both Experiments 1 and 2, a positive correlation emerged between ratings of story preference and ratings of empathy with the main character. Implications for the field of empirical aesthetics were discussed.Item Siegfried, der Held im Nibelungenlied und in der Volsungasaga(Texas Tech University, 1973-08) Wolfenberger, Klaus Willi FriedrichNot availableItem The Byronic hero in James Fenimore Cooper's sea novels(Texas Tech University, 1968-05) Knight, Patricia CullumNot availableItem The evolution of the fictional Western hero(Texas Tech University, 1999-05) Untiedt, Kenneth LeeThe foUowing chapters will explore the characteristics of the character as they appeared in Wister's Virginian, and show how the character has been transposed into numerous other genre. The second chapter will look specifically at how the cowboy hero character and westem formula have been mimicked in other literary genre. The third chapter will examine the transformation of all of the genre into television and film. The fourth chapter will explore reasons for the universal interest in the cowboy hero character and the westem formula. First, however, the character and formula must be defined.Item The Spanish hero in Hemingway's fiction(Texas Tech University, 1979-05) Baeza, Marcelino AbelardoNOT AVAILABLEItem The transcendental hero in selected Victorian literature.(Texas Tech University, 1975-08) Tamkoc, CarolineNot available