====== World Literature: The Hero and the Woman's Role ======
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===== Rationale =====
Each of these texts covers a wide range of heroic archetypes from the classics such as Gilgamesh to modern versions of the damaged warrior in Conrad's //Heart of Darkness//. This establishes the classic hero's path or journey, and the hero's gate is the predecessor to the comic book trope of the origin story. This list also represent women throughout various pieces of literature. While //Miss Julie// and //A Dollhouse// may stand out as different, they are the contrast of the mythical woman to the women of the //realism// genre. There is literature to represent various forms of the woman warrior throughout different genres. 
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[[Beowulf]]

[[Bocaccio]] The Decameron

[[Brecht, Bertolt]] Caucasian Chalk Circle

--The Good Woman of Setzuan

--Mother Courage and Her Children

[[Bronte, Charlotte]] Jane Eyre

[[Butler, Octavia]] Bloodchild

--Kindred

--Lilith’s Brood

--Parable of the Sower

--Seed to Harvest

[[Callaghan, Sheila]] Kate Crackernuts (play)

[[Camus, Albert]] The Stranger

[[Coleridge, Samuel Taylor]] The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
 
[[de Cervantes, Miguel]] Don Quixote

[[Card, Orson Scott]] Ender’s Game

[[Chaucer, Geoffrey]] The Canterbury Tales

[[Conrad, Joseph]] Heart of Darkness

[[Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan]] Carmilla 

[[Gilgamesh, The Epic of]]

[[Le Guin, Ursula K.]] The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin
 
[[Hopkinson, Nalo]] Brown Girl in the Ring

[[Howard, Robert E.]] Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Cimmerian Barbarian: The Complete Weird Tales Omnibus

[[Ibsen, Henrik]] A Doll House

--Hedda Gabler

[[Iron Maiden]] “Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”

[[Jackson, Shirley]] The Lottery, and Other Stories
 
--We Have Always Lived in the Castle

[[Jemisin, N.K.]] The Fifth Season

[[Kafka, Franz.]] Metamorphosis

[[Lang, Andrew]] Kate Crackernuts (collected fairy tales)

[[Lindgren, Astrid]] Pipi Longstocking

[[Moliere]] Tartuffe

[[de Navarre, Marguerite]] The Heptameron

[[Okorafor, Nnedi]] Who Fears Death, Daw Books

[[de Pizan, Christine]] Book of the City of Ladies

[[Ruff, Matt]] Lovecraft Country: A Novel

[[Rhys, Jean]] Wide Sargasso Sea

[[Shakespeare, William]] Hamlet

--Midsummer Night's Fantasy

-- Richard III

-- Romeo and Juliet

-- Titus Andronicus

-- Twelfth Night

[[Shelley, Mary]] Frankenstein

[[Strindberg, August]] Miss Julie

[[Stravinsky, Igor]] The Rite of Spring (ballet)

[[Takeuchi, Naoko]] Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Vol. 1

[[Tiptree, James Jr.]] Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
 
[[Tolkien, J.R.R.]] The Hobbit

--The Lord of the Rings