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Straightforward: The Narrative Construction of Heteronormativity from Homer to The Hobbit

Marcus Attwater

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Description:When asked to name an archetypal love story, most people will reply 'Romeo & Juliet', although some say 'Tristan & Isolde' instead. Very few will come up with a classical example, and the reason for this is simple: when you say archetypal, it is assumed you mean love between a man and a woman, and instances of this in classical accounts are rare. The reason for this is also not hard to find: as it does now, 'love' in the ancient world meant the affection of equals, and given the inferior position of women in Greek and Roman society, between the sexes is not usually where love is to be found.Straightforward examines how we got from there to here. It considers how stories from classical, medieval and early modern times, stripped of the romantic expectations modern readers bring to them, reflect the ideals and anxieties of their age, and served as examples of what to pursue and what to avoid. By following these stories and the changes they underwent through the centuries this study attempts to answer two related questions: 'When and why did the heterosexual ideal become normative in our narrative tradition?' and 'What was there before?'We begin in archaic Greece, with a story that was already old when Homer composed his epics…We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Straightforward: The Narrative Construction of Heteronormativity from Homer to The Hobbit. To get started finding Straightforward: The Narrative Construction of Heteronormativity from Homer to The Hobbit, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Attwater Books

Release: 2019

ISBN: 9463672737

Description: When asked to name an archetypal love story, most people will reply 'Romeo & Juliet', although some say 'Tristan & Isolde' instead. Very few will come up with a classical example, and the reason for this is simple: when you say archetypal, it is assumed you mean love between a man and a woman, and instances of this in classical accounts are rare. The reason for this is also not hard to find: as it does now, 'love' in the ancient world meant the affection of equals, and given the inferior position of women in Greek and Roman society, between the sexes is not usually where love is to be found.Straightforward examines how we got from there to here. It considers how stories from classical, medieval and early modern times, stripped of the romantic expectations modern readers bring to them, reflect the ideals and anxieties of their age, and served as examples of what to pursue and what to avoid. By following these stories and the changes they underwent through the centuries this study attempts to answer two related questions: 'When and why did the heterosexual ideal become normative in our narrative tradition?' and 'What was there before?'We begin in archaic Greece, with a story that was already old when Homer composed his epics…We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Straightforward: The Narrative Construction of Heteronormativity from Homer to The Hobbit. To get started finding Straightforward: The Narrative Construction of Heteronormativity from Homer to The Hobbit, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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