The Heroine with a Thousand Faces: Universal Trends in the Characterization of Female Folk Tale Protagonists
Literary scholars and psychologists have long remarked striking similarities in the depiction of male heroes in the world's folk tale traditions. The best-known attempt to document and explain these similarities is Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1936). Campbell's wo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2005-01-01
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| Series: | Evolutionary Psychology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/147470490500300108 |