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Frankel Valerie Estelle Frankel
Buffy and the Heroine’s Journey [EPUB ebook]
Vampire Slayer as Feminine Chosen One

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The worlds of Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, and other modern epics feature the Chosen One–an adolescent boy who defeats the Dark Lord and battles the sorrows of the world. Television’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer represents a different kind of epic–the heroine’s journey, not the hero’s. This provocative study explores how Buffy blends 1990s girl power and the path of the warrior woman with the oldest of mythic traditions. It chronicles her descent into death and subsequent return like...

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 236 ● ISBN 9780786489435 ● Publisher McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5839993 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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