https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/ 2026-04-04T05:06:44+00:00 https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/ https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/lib/tpl/dokuwiki/images/favicon.ico text/html 2022-12-28T18:50:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=achebe_chinua&rev=1672253445&do=diff text/html 2022-02-19T01:22:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=adaptation_studies&rev=1645233727&do=diff Adaptation Studies Hutcheon, Linda Parody text/html 2022-03-03T18:25:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=adaptation_studies_convergence_culture_specialty_area&rev=1646331917&do=diff Adaptation Studies/Convergence Culture Specialty Rationale I divided the adaptation studies and convergence culture up into two lists: 1a, this list, and 1b is all the comic book adaptation stuff in a list of its own. This list covers adaptation studies and convergence culture entries. There is so much crossover between the two it was just easier to put the convergence culture in with these. This list will cover the theoretical aspects of the adaptation process in general. What is parody, bio-… text/html 2023-01-08T01:05:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=aethiopis&rev=1673139931&do=diff Aethiopis is a set of five lost poems. Fragments have been recovered and it is thought to be the complete story of the Trojan War. The Amazon Queen, Penthesilea, daughter of Ares and Ortrera, is sent to fight alongside the Trojans against the Greeks. She brings a band or unit of Amazon warriors with her. During a battle with Achilles, Penthesilea is killed. text/html 2022-12-30T16:32:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=akbar_shaik&rev=1672417929&do=diff Khawla Bint Al Azwar was the sister of Zaraar bin Malik, both from a tribe of Adnite Arabs that are said to be descendants of the Prophet Ishmael. Her brother was captured in a battle with the Roman Christians, at which point Khawla just goes into battle solo and starts killing Christian soldiers left and right. SHe is a fierce warrior, like her brother. This inspires the Muslims to attack the Romans and rout the enemy. text/html 2023-03-12T21:31:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=alaniz_jose&rev=1678656678&do=diff The Thing. Daredevil. Captain Marvel. The Human Fly. Drawing on DC and Marvel comics from the 1950s to the 1990s, and marshaling insights from three burgeoning fields of inquiry in the humanities--disability studies, death and dying studies, and comics studies text/html 2023-01-07T17:59:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=alpern_stanley_b&rev=1673114344&do=diff “Following Le Herisse/Agbidinoukoun's lead, many twentieth- century specialists on the kingdom of Dahomey have accepted Ahangbe's reality.20 The presence of a group of persons claiming descent from her and maintaining traditions about her would seem to support them text/html 2022-02-17T23:58:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=amazons&rev=1645142297&do=diff Amazons in... Greek Mythos Hausa Mythos Indian Mythos Islamic Mythos Norse Mythos text/html 2023-01-10T05:00:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=anonymous&rev=1673326846&do=diff Wiki Link Book Link See Brown, Abbie Farewell et al, Norse Mythology: Tales of the Gods, Sagas and Heroes, Arcturus, 2018 Women of Note Signy - Daughter of Volsung and twin sister of Sigmund. She is forced to marry Siggeir, the antagonist.He's mad because Sigmund pulled the sword from the tree. Her brothers are captured and eaten bt a she-wolf every night. Signy manages to rescue Sigmund. She has two children by Seggeir she hopes will be able to overthrow their father, but when they appear… text/html 2022-08-12T16:47:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=artemis&rev=1660322869&do=diff Artemis is the twin sister of Apollo and a notable warrior-woman as the god of the hunt and wilderness. Like most warrior women, she is a very notable archer. In the contemporary pop setting, Artemis has come to represent archery universally and is often used to symbolize this in Western cultures. She is the god of chastity who may defy or support a lot of patriarchal values in ancient Greece, depending on how text/html 2022-11-01T13:54:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=artemis_greek_diana_roman&rev=1667310866&do=diff Artemis/Diana Known as Diana by the Romans, Artemis is the god of the hunt. She is the sister of Apollo, the speedster. She is one of the gods the Amazons supposedly worshipped. text/html 2022-12-31T17:41:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=bahagavad-gita&rev=1672508519&do=diff Online Link text/html 2023-01-07T18:28:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=bay_edna_g&rev=1673116094&do=diff Library Link Main quote needed is on 202. Basically, in the mid-1800s, the king having female bodyguards had been in practice for at least 100 years already. King Gezo established the guard as a standing army. Observers from the early 1900s are the ones who label all of the female soldiers text/html 2022-12-16T20:22:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=blier_suzanne_preston&rev=1671222141&do=diff text/html 2022-12-28T17:10:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=brown_abbie_farewell&rev=1672247459&do=diff Book Link Has another telling of the Volsung Saga and begins with Signy's story. text/html 2022-12-28T19:00:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=cartwright_keith&rev=1672254004&do=diff 1 Imperial Mother Wit, Gumbo Erotics: (pp. 25-47) <https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt130jbc3.4> Following Fa-Digi Sisòkò’s narration of a royal search party’s journey to foreign markets to locate the exiled Sunjata, I will be bringing some of the occulted signs and semiotic systems of Senegambian cultures into the marketplace of American literatures in an effort to discover telling moments of recognition. Deep Senegambian/Mande “soul” signs such as okra (and the thick “gumbo” of griot performanc… text/html 2023-03-12T23:08:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=comic_book_adaptation_convergence_culture&rev=1678662493&do=diff Comic Book Adaptation/Convergence Rationale This list is basically list of the adaptation and convergence culture theory that is applicable specifically to comic book materials. A lot of the list touches on the cultural impact these comics have, others deal with the theories of adaptation and process in comic books. Convergence culture and adaptation studies are a big crossover area. I am interested in the way fans interact with comic books, and some of the choices are meant t reflect the audi… text/html 2022-02-24T23:20:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=comic_book_primary_source_material&rev=1645744845&do=diff Comic Book Primary Source Material ---------- Rationale This list was too big and modern to tie in with the other primary source lists. In terms of reading comps, this list is fair game for either or both the primary source and specialty area tests. it serves as primary source material for modern adaptations of these archetypes and are a major source for analysis in the overall dissertation. There are comic books, graphic novels, streaming and television series, films, and games listed here. … text/html 2022-02-27T00:17:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=comic_book_specialty_area&rev=1645921021&do=diff Comic Book Theory Alaniz, Jose. Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond 2014 Averett, Paige. “The Search for Wonder Woman: An Autoethnography of Feminist Identity.” 2009 Babb, Valerie. “The Past is Never the Past: The Call and Response Between Marvel’s Black Panther and Early Black Speculative Fiction text/html 2023-03-12T21:27:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=connors_sean_p&rev=1678656463&do=diff Abstract: This article reports the author’s experiences using graphic novels with pre-service teachers in a young adult literature course. Drawing on critical response papers two students composed after reading Pride of Baghdad, a graphic novel by Brian K. Vaughan and Niko Henrichon, the author argues that when readers possess the background knowledge needed to approx- imate the role of the implied reader—that is, the imag- inary audience for whom authors envision themselves writing—they are c… text/html 2023-01-03T00:30:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=crawford_jackson&rev=1672705805&do=diff Book Link Has a detailed version of the poem about Sigurd/Sigurth fighting the dragon Fafnir (p241-) Sigrdrifumal (The Meeting with the Valkyrie) (p252) - Sigerdrifa, a Valkyrie, advises Sigurth when he asks her for wisdom. She proceeds to tell him eleven things he should know, from how to carve a rune in his palm when his wife is in labor to looking out for witchcraft when you go into battle. It is very Machiavellian. text/html 2023-01-07T22:07:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=crossley-holland_kevin&rev=1673129272&do=diff See Women of Note in Norse Mythology text/html 2023-03-06T22:06:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=d_agostino_anthony_michael&rev=1678140413&do=diff Abstract The X-Men’s Rogue’s ability to absorb the powers and personality of others through “flesh-to-flesh contact” presents an affective figure for the queer potential of the X-Men’s meta- phor of mutancy as difference. Close readings of Rogue’s first appearance, Avengers Annual #10, and the end of her first major character arc, Uncanny X-Men #185, reveal that this affective figure for queerness is variable and derived from X-Men writer Chris Claremont’s ongoing engagement with feminist poli… text/html 2023-03-17T18:13:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dalbeto_l._do_c._and_oliveira_a.p&rev=1679076831&do=diff Abstract This study presents a qualitative analysis on the representation of black women in comic books using a sociocultural approach to their production-release background. We study the X-Men mutant character Storm, whose path reinforces and questions the social roles these women enact. We state that the analysis of cultural assets aimed at entertainment, like comic books, helps us consider the relationship between gender and ethnicity in our society. text/html 2022-11-01T13:44:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=daphne_greek&rev=1667310263&do=diff Daphne Daphne is the daughter of Peneus, the river god. Apollo falls in love with her and she ultimately destroys her own beauty to escape him. “At once Apollo felt love, but Daphne fled the mention of love and found pleasure in the remote parts of the forest. Many men sought after Daphne, but she , avoiding all her suitors and shunning the sight and thought of men, wandered over the pathless groves and had no care for Hymen, or Amor, or marriage text/html 2022-12-30T18:04:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=datta_somdip&rev=1672423490&do=diff Comic Link text/html 2023-03-12T22:59:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=diego_maggi&rev=1678661997&do=diff Abstract Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novels Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (2003) and Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (2004) —focused on her youth and early adulthood in Iran and Austria— reveal in many ways the conflicting coexistence between the West —Europe and North America— and the Middle East. This article explores feminist Orientalism and national identity in both Satrapi’s works, with the purpose of demonstrating the manners that these comics complicate and challenge binary divi… text/html 2022-12-28T17:46:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=donahue_charles&rev=1672249614&do=diff Library Link DIscusses similarities between Valkyries and the Irish War Goddesses. Both are viewed deciders of fate. The words for Valkyrie actually mean demon in some languages. Ultimately, there is a Celto-Germanic lineage to the idea of Valkyries that leads to the Irish War Goddesses. text/html 2023-03-12T21:20:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=donaldson_s._olivia&rev=1678656018&do=diff In her examination of migrant literature, Azade Seyhan eloquently and metaphorically remarks: “literary expressions of contemporary sociopolitical formations offer critical insights into the manifold meanings of history and take us to galaxies of experience where no theory has gone before” (5). Seyhan poetically encapsulates an assertion shared by Appiah, Mohanty and Satrapi about the power of creative texts to help us interpret and alter the world in which we live by forming and embracing conne… text/html 2023-01-01T20:41:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=epics&rev=1672605709&do=diff Homer (8th Century BCE) Epics center around hero(es) and are usually rooted in some oral tradition of storytelling. The Greeks wrote them down as plays, Sunjata is a poem, Wagner wrote one as an opera. There is an Epic Era in Greek mythology/theater. This is largely the era of Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, etc. text/html 2023-03-13T18:32:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=eyman_douglas&rev=1678732321&do=diff What is “digital rhetoric”? This book aims to answer that question by looking at a number of interrelated histories, as well as evaluating a wide range of methods and practices from fields in the humanities, social sciences, and information sciences to determine what might constitute the work and the world of digital rhetoric. The advent of digital and networked communication technologies prompts renewed interest in basic questions such asWhat counts as a text?andCan traditional rhetoric operate… text/html 2023-03-12T22:02:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=frangos_mike_classon&rev=1678658552&do=diff Abstract: The recent boom in feminist comics by Swedish artists has produced a body of work that has only recently come to the attention of English-language readers. This article focuses on the comics of Liv Stromquist, specifically Fruit of Knowledge: The Vulva vs. The Patriarchy (2018), the first of her book-length works to be published in English translation. Stromquist's text is situated in the broader context of feminist comics, particularly the work of Julie Doucet. Drawing on Swedish so… text/html 2023-01-08T00:19:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=fridhriksdottir_johanna_katrin&rev=1673137188&do=diff Book Link “Valkyries” in Icelandic means “Amazons” (56). They are also referred to as “spear-maidens,” or “Sword girl” (5). Valkyries are said to have wielded “The Fire of Skogul,”a flaming sword in the skaldic tradition (5). The difference between shield-maidens and Valkyrie is that shield-maidens are mortal and they fight in battles. The Valkyrie are supernatural and they hover over the battle (67). text/html 2022-12-27T18:08:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=fry_stephen&rev=1672164509&do=diff Kindle Link Table of Contents Part One: The Beginning Out of Chaos " Chaos" The First Order " Erebus, Nyx Gaia, Tartarus, and Gaia’s children" The Second Order " Gaia and Ouranos’s children — 6 males and 6 females, Cyclopes, Hecatonchires Kronos’s crime text/html 2023-01-08T17:23:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=fry_stephen_heroes&rev=1673198613&do=diff Heracles' 9th Labor Hippolyta stiffened. ‘I hope it is not to drag Hippolyta in chains before that vile tyrant?’ ‘No, no ... not that. It’s this girdle ...’ He looked down at the belt circling his arm. ‘His daughter, Admete, sent me to fetch it. But now that I have met you I cannot find it in my heart to text/html 2022-12-26T21:32:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=gaiman_neil&rev=1672090330&do=diff Audio Book Link text/html 2023-03-12T21:17:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=galvan_margaret&rev=1678655861&do=diff Conclusion: Speculative Sexualities Look Ahead In foregrounding diverse sexualities, the comics bildungsromane of both Lee Marrs and Roberta Gregory presciently revise rhetorics and forms, but, as outsider feminist theorists, they were also interested in exploring the pressures of the time in the space of the page. As examples of that, both produced dystopian comics about the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) as the state ratification process started to slow down. Gregory included her three-page text/html 2022-12-27T18:02:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=geary_patrick_j&rev=1672164163&do=diff Library Link Chapter 1 p9 This is by no means an unreasonable suggestion. As we shall see in greater detail in chapter 2, Amazons figure prominently not only in classical ethnographic accounts and origin legends from the time of Herodotus through the Middle Ages but also in Roman and medieval accounts of campaigns against “barbarian” Celts, Germanic enemies, and Steppe peoples.5 Moreover, ar- chaeological evidence of women buried with weapons occurs in ancient and medieval tombs from the are… text/html 2023-03-12T22:15:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=gibson_richard&rev=1678659352&do=diff Abstract The following paper examines the cyberpunk transhumanist graphic novel Transmetropolitan through the theoretical lens of disability studies to demonstrate how science fiction, and in particular this series, illustrate and can influence how we think about disability, impairment and difference. While Transmetropolitan is most often read as a scathing political and social satire about abuse of power and the danger of political apathy, the comic series also provides readers with representa… text/html 2023-03-18T18:32:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=graban_tarez_samra&rev=1679164320&do=diff In Women's Irony: Rewriting Feminist Rhetorical Histories, author Tarez Samra Graban synthesizes three decades of feminist scholarship in rhetoric, linguistics, and philosophy to present irony as a critical paradigm for feminist rhetorical historiography that is not linked to humor, lying, or intention. Using irony as a form of ideological disruption, this innovative approach allows scholars to challenge simplistic narratives of who harmed, and who was harmed, throughout rhetorical history. Thre… text/html 2023-03-12T22:23:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=grady_william&rev=1678659784&do=diff Through the previous intertextual and historical readings, this chapter developed upon how the Western comic could follow popular trends and common conventions in the genre. However, through this final portion of the chapter, it indicates how Western comics can depart from generic norms, constructing a Western space that is much more subversive than other forms of the genre. At a rhetorical level, the Western comic can allow the reader to challenge the tropes and conventions of the Western (and … text/html 2022-08-15T22:01:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=greek_and_roman_sculpture&rev=1660600864&do=diff Images and article. text/html 2022-08-11T22:52:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=greek_theater_relevance&rev=1660258357&do=diff Greek theater tends to follow a simple evolution beginning with the gods in Greek mythology in Eumenides (472 BCE), gods and mortals in Medea (431 BCE), Oedipus Rex (429 BCE), Herakles (416 BCE), to eventually plays solely about mortals in plays like Lysistrata or Thesmophoriazusae (411 BCE). It seems only natural that playwrights such as Aristophanes and Sophocles would start to tackle the more controversial aspects of society, such as sex and politics, in both comedies and tragedies. text/html 2023-01-05T00:57:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=greek_theater_terms&rev=1672880266&do=diff text/html 2022-08-11T22:17:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=greek_theatre_relevance&rev=1660256233&do=diff Greek theater tends to follow a simple evolution beginning with the gods in Greek mythology in Eumenides (472 BCE), gods and mortals in Medea (431 BCE), Oedipus Rex (429 BCE), Herakles (416 BCE), to eventually plays solely about mortals in plays like Lysistrata or Thesmophoriazusae (411 BCE). It seems only natural that playwrights such as Aristophanes and Sophocles would start to tackle the more controversial aspects of society, such as sex and politics, in both comedies and tragedies. text/html 2023-03-18T20:33:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=gries_laurie_e&rev=1679171588&do=diff Winner of the 2016 CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award and the 2016 CCCC Research Impact AwardInStill Life with Rhetoric, Laurie Gries forges connections among new materialism, actor network theory, and rhetoric to explore how images become rhetorically active in a digitally networked, global environment. Rather than study how an already-materialized text/html 2022-12-28T18:01:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=guerber_h._a&rev=1672250468&do=diff Book Link Stories detailing Valkyrie or “Swan Maidens.” Brunhild Hel text/html 2023-01-06T17:29:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=hambly_glenda_not_so_universal_hero_s_journey&rev=1673026144&do=diff While Campbell insists the hero must return from his adventure and share his new self-knowledge with the group he left behind, he expects this ‘new’ knowledge will challenge the ‘old’ ways of the hero’s community. (141) text/html 2022-12-31T17:49:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=harvard_divinity_school&rev=1672508999&do=diff Website Link text/html 2022-12-30T17:29:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=heath_jennifer&rev=1672421348&do=diff Hind bint Utba She was the wife of Muhammad's final opponent, abu Sufyan. SHe eventually becomes a ruthless enemy of the Muslims before she and her husband convert. “Women on both sides joined the troops in battle to fight, to nurse the fallen, and encourage the fighters text/html 2023-01-02T19:53:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=heracles&rev=1672689220&do=diff Hercules/Heracles/Herakles is steeped in Greek mythology with many believing these originate in ancient Greek hunter tribes. Hercules (the most common English spelling) is half mortal and half-son-of-Zeus. He is an example of the sort of bi-existential characters that appear in Greek plays and poems, such as Hercules, Perseus, and Achilles. text/html 2022-08-12T22:27:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=herais_diophantos&rev=1660343226&do=diff An oracle tells King Alexander that a “biformed one” will appear and bring about Alexander's demise. No one understands this until the king dies and the following accounts are discovered. Herais is essentially an intersexed person from an era that would not have been able to define such. The story goes that Herais was a woman who was married to a man. During he marriage Herais fell ill from a large swollen area in her groin. Basically, she had a penis that had been encased in flesh that looked… text/html 2023-01-01T20:32:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=hero_s_journey&rev=1672605156&do=diff Wiki Link Berkeley Link Birth - the hero is born, usually through some prophecy or of some form nobility, such as being touched by the gods. Call to Adventure - the hero is put on a large quest (Jason, Beowulf) or a series of smaller quests (Hercules, Sunjata). Helpers/Amulet - Perseus is spared from death as a child by more than luck, he later receives magic items from the nymphs and Hermes. text/html 2022-08-12T16:37:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=hippolytus&rev=1660322271&do=diff Hippolytus is the son of Theseus, king of Athens. Theseus is married to Phaedra. Theseus rapes Hippolyta, the Queen of the Amazons and impregnates her, giving Theseus a son he names Hippolytus after his mother. Theseus is in exile for killing another king, and for a year Phaedra is left with Hippolytus. In an Oedipal-like story, Hippolytus' stepmother, Phaedra, falls in love with him and tries to seduce him. Hippolytus spurns her advances and tells his father Theseus. Theseus goes to confront h… text/html 2023-03-12T22:35:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=holmes_martha_stoddard&rev=1678660518&do=diff With the objective of beginning to theorize graphic body studies, I offer here an aesthetics of graphic cancer narratives and a taxonomy of comics' aptness as a medium for the dynamic embodiment that is a shared feature of diverse cancer experiences. First, representations of people in comics are minimalist and figurai in their visual elements, a characteristic with fascinating implications for reader-text intimacy. Comics also figure the self as a visually dynamic presence that morphs from spec… text/html 2022-12-27T22:01:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=homer&rev=1672178501&do=diff Homer is the author of both the Illiad and The Odyssey. Homer doesn't really deal with Amazons. However, characters, such as Medea and Achilles,crossover into relevant myths, poems and plays. The Illiad is just a section of the Trojan war, but the Amazons are mentioned in association with both the war and Achilles in other texts. text/html 2022-12-16T18:58:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=johnson_elizabeth_ofosuah&rev=1671217117&do=diff Article Link text/html 2022-12-28T18:10:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=lindow_john&rev=1672251052&do=diff Library Link Chapter 2 lists everyone by name and has entries for each. text/html 2023-01-01T20:43:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=lyric&rev=1672605814&do=diff THe Lyric era comes after the Epic Era in Greek mythology. Lyric is both an era and a style of poetry that focuses on emotion, usually love of some form. Sappho, Ovid, etc. text/html 2023-01-06T23:10:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=lysistrata&rev=1673046650&do=diff Ebook Link Lysistrata is a play by Aristophanes (411BCE) in which the women of two warring states cut the men off from sex with them. It is the idea of the main character, Lysistrata, who is seeking to end the Peloponnesian War. It is a comedy that includes very explicit sexual references. The male characters are often portrayed with comically large erections and complain endlessly about their libidos. The play makes great use of the chorus comprised mostly of old, horny men. Aristophanes also… text/html 2022-12-31T18:13:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=mahabharata&rev=1672510398&do=diff Article Link; Analysis of Gender Roles in the Mahabharata text/html 2022-12-31T17:51:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=mahabharata_india_s_greatest_epic_by_chandrakant_kamala&rev=1672509063&do=diff Comic Link text/html 2022-08-15T21:58:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=marble_statue_of_a_wounded_amazon&rev=1660600685&do=diff Marble Statue of a Wounded Amazon Artist unknown, Imperial/1st-2nd century C.E.(Roman) metmuseum.org article and images Sculptors in Greek and Roman cultures were looking for “the perfect form,” thus the reason so many of their sculptures were fidelitous, almost exacting reproductions of the human form. These human forms were usually used to represent the various deities. Mortal men were more common than mortal women in these eras. text/html 2022-12-27T21:46:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=medea&rev=1672177570&do=diff Medea is a play by Euripides that deals with Jason's return from the events in The Odyssey. Jason enlisted Medea's help in retrieving the Golden Fleece. Medea, having become a traitor to her own people for the love of Jason, has no choice but to flee with Jason. Upon returning to Jason's home, Medea learns he has led her on and that he is married with children. Furthermore Medea is reduced to that of a servant to care for the children. She exacts her revenge against Jason by killing his childre… text/html 2023-03-12T23:03:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=miranda-barreiro_david&rev=1678662195&do=diff Abstract: The multifaceted Galician artist, writer and politician Alfonso Daniel Rodriguez Castelao (1886-1950) has been considered a pioneer of Galician comics, or banda desenada. This is because of his key role in the development of the medium from his early comic strips in the magazine Vida gallega [Galician life] (1909), to the cartoons that he published in the press in the 1920s and 1930s. Furthermore, Castelao has become a comics character in several graphic biographies since the end of … text/html 2023-01-08T22:54:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=misc._notes&rev=1673218452&do=diff Hero's Journey Epics Lyric Women of Note in Greek Myth Women of Note in Indian Mythology Women of Note in Norse Mythology Women in Roman Myth Women in Dahomey Amazons Women in Islam Women from Russia Mythology vs Folklore vs Legend Greek Theater Terms Monomyth Hambly, Glenda Not So Universal Hero's Journey Thomas van Nortwick, Somewhere I have Never Travelled text/html 2023-01-01T17:28:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=mkandawire_mjura_and_andrea_matthews&rev=1672594127&do=diff Library Link Mostly stories about men and women who change into animals. The wife dies in both versions. The Hunter's Magic Story about a husband and wife. The husband can turn into a lion, unbeknownst to his wife. He goes out and hunts for game and always comes back with meat. One day his wife follows him, and scares of the game as a result. The lion does not know this, so he follows his wife one day and overhears that she followed him and puts 2 and 2 together. Fearing he will never be able… text/html 2023-01-05T19:54:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=monomyth&rev=1672948480&do=diff Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Refusal of the Call “The literature of psychoanalysis abounds in examples of such desperate fixations. What they represent is an impotence to put off the infantile ego, with its sphere of emotional relationships and ideals text/html 2023-01-07T18:39:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=morton-williams_peter&rev=1673116790&do=diff “Some dates for the battles are pertinent. Colonel Dodds, who had refu to answer letters from Behanzin proposing negotiation (Le Herisse, 1911: 345), led his expeditionary force out of Porto Novo on 11 September 1892. On the 20th occurred the first engagement with a Dahomey force at Dogba; then from the 27th to the 29th, the first crossing of the river Oueme and a battle for Poguessa (Kphoghessa, in Le Herisse, 1911; Kpokisa in Maupoil, 1943; Pokissa in Cornevin, 1962) and, here, the first encou… text/html 2022-12-27T18:45:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=myron_adrian&rev=1672166706&do=diff Book Link Epochs of Greek Mythology The Age of the Gods - Genesis material, theogony, the birth of the gods The Age of Gods and Men - Humans live in misery, gods begin to care for them. The Golden Ages of Humans - The epics such as the Trojan War. Gaia is the beginning of the Greek pantheon. Births through parthenogenesis(one gender)and marries Uranus. Eros, goddess of Love, was the next in line. Gaia and Uranus give birth to 12 Titans. text/html 2022-02-17T23:55:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=mythology&rev=1645142127&do=diff Mythology Amazons text/html 2023-01-03T16:34:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=mythology_vs_folklore_vs_legend&rev=1672763683&do=diff MLA 9th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.) Tamsin Hughes. World Mythology : From Indigenous Tales to Classical Legends. Arcturus, 2020. APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.) Tamsin Hughes. (2020). World Mythology : From Indigenous Tales to Classical Legends. Arcturus. text/html 2022-12-26T17:59:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=nardo_don&rev=1672077570&do=diff Library Link text/html 2022-08-12T20:33:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=nijinksy_vaslav&rev=1660336423&do=diff Afternoon of a Faun (Nijinsky) is a ballet originally choreographed by Nijinsky. It tells the tale of a Faun (half-man/goat) who awakes to find himself among a group of forest Nymphs. This all-female entourage plays with the curious Faun, but as the Faun gets more frisky sexually, they began to run away from him, all but one anyway. The remaining Nymph proceeds to flirt and tease him, he pursues and tries to catch her, and eventually they have sex. The Faun awakes to find her gone, he sees thre… text/html 2023-01-09T00:00:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=nonwestern_primary_source_material&rev=1673222425&do=diff Nonwestern Primary Source Materials ---------- Rationale As with my premodern list, this list represents warrior women in the nonwestern cultures related to India and Hinduism, the Middle-East and the Islam, and Nigeria and Hausa folklore. I have traced the concept of the Amazon myth in a circle from Greece and Italy to Scandinavia, down through the Middle-East, Syria in particular, into India, and around to Nigeria, pointing towards Greece once more. Every area has stories about warrior wome… text/html 2022-08-12T22:08:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=oedipus_relevance&rev=1660342107&do=diff Oedipus Rex and Sophocles Relevance to Amazons It is primarily the Freudian psychology that makes it relevant to Amazonian research. Freudian psychology informs a lot of 2nd wave feminism. The entire concept of Laura Mulvey's and Teresa de Laurentis' text/html 2022-08-12T22:08:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=oedipus_the_king&rev=1660342126&do=diff Oedipus Rex by Sophocles Creon, brother to King Oedipus, seeks advice from Delphi the oracle about plagues that are wreaking havoc across his kingdom. The oracle tells him that it is due to a curse that Oedipus has brought upon the land because the former king's murder, Laius', has never been solved. Tiresias is another prophet who is blind and knows something, but refuses to tell Oedipus and begs him to stop asking questions. Eventually Oedipus accuses Creon of bribing Tiresias to say it is be… text/html 2023-01-08T17:40:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=ovid_metamorphoses_-_perseus&rev=1673199617&do=diff Source: Ovid Metamorphoses, Trans. Sir Samuel Garth et al, Internet Classics Archive, <http://classics.mit.edu/Ovid/metam.4.fourth.html> Yet tho' this harsh, inglorious fate they found, Each in the deathless grandson liv'd renown'd. Thro' conquer'd India Bacchus nobly rode, And Greece with temples hail'd the conqu'ring God. text/html 2022-12-31T18:35:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=penthesilea&rev=1672511733&do=diff Penthesilea is the Queen of the Amazons. She is the daughter of Ares, god of war, and Ortrera. Her sisters are Hippolyta, Melanippe, and Antiope. Wiki Link She appears in the Aethiopis (600 BCE?), Virgil's Aenid (29-19 BCE), and Kleist's adaptation (1808 CE). text/html 2023-01-08T17:32:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=premodern_primary_source_material&rev=1673199157&do=diff Premodern Primary Source Material - Classical Greek and Norse Mythology ---------- Rationale In looking at female and non-binary representations of “warrior women” in classical mythology, we see the origins of the archetypes that will become modern comic book iterations. There are themes and tropes that dominate various mythos. From Greek and Norse mythology we see the influence on western European literature and arts, and the perpetuation of stereotypes about warrior women, themes and tropes… text/html 2022-11-01T13:52:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=premodern_wiki&rev=1667310772&do=diff Premodern Wiki Daphne (Greek) Artemis (Greek}/Diana (Roman) text/html 2022-12-30T17:52:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=previato_tommaso&rev=1672422763&do=diff “The term most widely used in Arabic-speaking countries to define them is mujahidaat (lit. female fighters). Despite the strongly pejorative connotations ascribed to it by today’s Western political vocabulary, mujahidaat originally applies to those Muslim women who served as auxiliary personnel in non-physical military operations, dispensing medications to the injured, managing fund-raising for the war effort, and encouraging their husbands, brothers and sons to wholeheartedly immerse themselves… text/html 2022-08-12T19:49:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=psyche_and_cupid&rev=1660333744&do=diff Psyche and Cupid is long and involved story in which Venus tries to prevent Cupid from loving the mortal Psych. Basically, Psyche is married off to Cupid, but she does not know who he is. He is not meant to be seen by mortal eyes. There is a nefarious plot in which her sisters conspire against her to get her wealth, and in the end she sees who cupid is. She is playing with his bow and arrows when she pricks her finger. Her love for Cupid is amplified to the point of madness. She wounds Cupid wi… text/html 2022-12-13T15:42:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=reading_lists&rev=1670946162&do=diff Reading Lists Primary Source Material The three lists here detail various mythos and cultural aspects that are necessary for the analysis. All of these texts focus on the role of the hero, the role of the woman as protagonist, the role of the woman as warrior, as well as highlighting the semiotics and memes involved with these mythologies. Certain visual themes begin to arise from this research, such as the fact that so many female warriors are archers in these stories. Textually or visually r… text/html 2022-08-12T22:26:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=relevance_of_herais_diophantos&rev=1660343203&do=diff Relevance of Herais/Diophantos Fawkes' edition translates the word “shame” multiple times, indicating the Greeks looked down upon intersexed people. Culturally speaking, the ancient Greeks would tolerate a certain degree of homosexuality. They were intolerant of men who acted feminine or identified as a woman. They would not have condoned a marriage between two men. The homosexual relations of Greek philosophers and their students is often held up as an example of their tolerance. However, teen… text/html 2022-08-12T22:11:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=relevance_of_medea&rev=1660342265&do=diff Relevance of Medea It's an interesting play from a literary perspective in that it involves a pretty sophisticated plot to build sympathy for the character of Medea who has been reduced from queen to slave, but then turns into an ultimate villain and slays the children. Stephen King's Carrie and many other stories are very reminiscent of this dynamic in pop-culture. The play has one of the most famous endings in all of literature, so it may also be an example of dramatic irony. Most audiences k… text/html 2023-03-12T23:10:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=robinson_lillian_s&rev=1678662657&do=diff Description Drawing upon her long career as a formidable feminist critic yet wearing her knowledge lightly, Lillian Robinson finds the essence of wonder women in our non-animated three-dimensional world. This book will delight and provoke anyone interested in the history of feminism or the importance of comics in contemporary life. text/html 2023-01-03T01:51:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=rothery_guy_cadogan&rev=1672710717&do=diff Library Link “The better to secure the utmost freedom in archery, teh right breast was wither amputated or atrophied by searing with red-hot irons, or by close binding; and so the Greeks, when they came into contact with them, called them Amazons, or the breastless text/html 2023-03-12T23:13:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=scott_suzanne&rev=1678662813&do=diff As Carole Stabile has suggested, “superhero narratives provide important places for imagining different here-and-nows; for defamiliarizing social problems and exploring them in a context that offers fresh insights and radical visions of the future. text/html 2022-12-28T18:36:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=searfoss_glenn&rev=1672252597&do=diff Library Link Long stories about the gods. It presents them in the linear cycles the stories take place in, starting before Midgard even exists and ending in the a sort of time-of-man era. text/html 2022-12-05T16:55:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=seid_betty&rev=1670259306&do=diff Goldberg, Ellen - ebook text/html 2022-12-28T18:46:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=self_kathleen_m&rev=1672253191&do=diff Library Link Abstract This article argues that the medieval Scandinavian valkyrie and shield-maiden, overlapping categories of warrior, are best understood as a third gender, a hybrid of masculine and feminine attributes. Found in a variety of texts, myths, and legends of heroes, for example, these figures are clad in masculine attire, armor, and weapons, and exercise masculine power as they fight and choose who will die in battle. At the same time, linguistic markers, literary devices, and … text/html 2023-01-09T00:12:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=shaihu_maalam&rev=1673223146&do=diff Book Link Covers a wide range of Hausa stories Story about a Giant, and the Cause of Thunder p827 A man literally named A-Man-among-Men goes around scaring everybody with his awesome strength and power. HE causes winds and thunder whenever he stomps. His wife gets onto him about bragging. One day his wife is at the well getting water when she encounters another wife. They exchange conversation, and the second wife goes home telling her husband about A-Man-among-Men. The husband wants to see … text/html 2023-03-12T21:11:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=shrestha_promina&rev=1678655497&do=diff ABSTRACT The following article is based on interviews and visual analysis of a collection of comics illustrated by Nepali women artists Bandana Tulachan, Kanchan Burathoki, Kripa Joshi, Preena Shrestha, Shraddha Shrestha and Sangee Shrestha, as well as my own work. These artists have been selected in terms of their visibility and prominence in the comics scene in Nepal. These artists have produced comics with personal narratives of their everyday life, thoughts and emotions. I address the quest… text/html 2023-01-02T18:42:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slater_phillip_elliot&rev=1672684939&do=diff Library Link Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments IX xxvn PART ONE : ORIGINS AND CONSEQUENCES I. The Greek Mother-Son Relationship: Origins and Consequences “This seems to me to explain adequately the presence of ac­ tive, aggressive women in Greek tragedy. Gomme points to the great freedom of action that women have in drama, and argues that women like Jocasta and Antigone must have been modeled on contemporary women [1937, pp. 93, 96, 107]. Kitto makes the same point, observing that t… text/html 2023-03-12T23:14:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=smith_scott_t._and_jose_alaniz&rev=1678662884&do=diff Superhero comics reckon with issues of corporeal control. And while they commonly deal in characters of exceptional or superhuman ability, they have also shown an increasing attention and sensitivity to diverse forms of disability, both physical and cognitive. The essays in this collection reveal how the superhero genre, in fusing fantasy with realism, provides a visual forum for engaging with issues of disability and intersectional identity (race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality) and he… text/html 2022-08-12T21:52:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=sophocles&rev=1660341153&do=diff Oedipus Rex by Sophocles Creon, brother to King Oedipus, seeks advice from Delphi the oracle about plagues that are wreaking havoc across his kingdom. The oracle tells him that it is due to a curse that Oedipus has brought upon the land because the former king's murder, Laius', has never been solved. Tiresias is another prophet who is blind and knows something, but refuses to tell Oedipus and begs him to stop asking questions. Eventually Oedipus accuses Creon of bribing Tiresias to say it is be… text/html 2023-01-01T19:57:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=start&rev=1672603041&do=diff AcaAlleyWiki This wiki comprises the bulk of my notes that I used for my reading comps in my dissertation program in Cultural Studies. The research focused on visual and literary archetypes from ancient mythology to modern day adaptations. The Adaptation Studies, Convergence Culture, and Visual/Rhetoric sections contain entries pertaining to theoretical aspects of my research, largely what other theorists have said. The Comic Books and Mythology sections contain my primary source material analy… text/html 2023-01-03T23:15:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=stewart_dianne&rev=1672787721&do=diff Kindle Link This book is for a younger audience, though not too young (there are very few pictures). The Origin of Stories This is a South African, Zulu Story A woman's children aske her for stories every night, but she has none to tell. So, she asks the neighbors and they don't have any stories either. Finally, her husband sends her out into the world,promising to take care of the children, so she can go and collect stories. text/html 2023-03-12T21:09:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=streeby_shelley&rev=1678655398&do=diff Heroism and Comics Form: Feminist and Queer Speculations Analyzes four books on comics, mostly from the male perspective. text/html 2023-01-08T22:03:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=sunjatta_a_west_african_epic_of_the_mande_peoples&rev=1673215409&do=diff Book Link YouTube Link Summary Link West African Characters Sunjata Keita - Also known as Simbon, Jata... Son of Sogolon and founder of the Mali Empire. He led the army that defeated Sumaworo and the army of Soso. Essentially, he grows up in exile, serves another king, then begins quarreling with the Soso. THe people plead for Sunjata to go back and take his rightful throne from Sumaworo, who sends Sumanguru to kill Sunjata. text/html 2023-01-03T01:25:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=the_argonautica&rev=1672709140&do=diff This is a 3rd C BCE epic poem for e Hellenistic audience. Book Link Book 1 King Pelias receives a prophecy that a man with one sandal will be his downfall. Jason loses his sandal, and believing him to be the prohecized one, the king sends him on a seemingly impossible quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece. text/html 2022-12-26T17:23:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=the_book_of_greek_and_roman_folktales_legends_and_myths&rev=1672075394&do=diff Library Link text/html 2023-01-08T21:35:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=the_iliad&rev=1673213711&do=diff Summary Link Better Summary Book Link Agamemnon has taken the Trojan Chryseis prisoner and holds her for ransom. Her father is a priest of Apollo and prays for help. Apollo strikes the Greek army down with pestilence until Achilles and his myrmidons ae forced to lead the Greek army out of Troy. Agamemnon eventually returns Chryseis. Achilles fights for Agamemnon and the Greeks, but when Agamemnon offends Achilles by taking his trophy bride, Briseis, he leaves. text/html 2023-01-02T22:30:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=the_odyssey&rev=1672698646&do=diff Summary Link Characters Breakdown Odyssey 10.190–93 The hero feels he has no craft left in him to devise a stratagem for a successful homecoming, and his despair is expressed as a feeling of disorientation. He is no longer able to distinguish between orient and occident. In effect, the hero is experiencing a loss of orientation in his noos or ‘thinking', and this loss is currently blocking his nostos ‘homecoming'. text/html 2023-01-04T19:40:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=the_oresteia&rev=1672861221&do=diff External Link External Link Gutenberg Link Agamemnon Link In Agamemnon, he returns from defeating Troy to his wife Clytemnestra. His wife is having an affair with Aegisthus. Agamemnon has brought back a slave names Cassandra who can divine the future with the curse that no one will believe her. She foresees Agamemnon's death. Cassandra murders him in the tub with an axe. text/html 2023-01-07T00:37:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=thomas_van_nortwick_somewhere_i_have_never_travelled&rev=1673051860&do=diff Book Link text/html 2022-12-30T22:18:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=thousand_and_one_nights_the&rev=1672438696&do=diff Book Link The Merchant and the Jinnee A story similar tot he man that meets death. In this a merchant meets a Jinn, who allows him to put his affairs in order so long as he returns to be killed. When the merchant returns, he meets three different Sheykhs. Each one challenges the Jinn to entertain it with a story for one third of the merchant's blood. The second Sheykh tells a story about finding his wife on a beach. When they set sail together the Sheykh's brothers began to covet her and plott… text/html 2023-01-07T19:04:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=tremearne_a.j.n&rev=1673118292&do=diff Library Link Discusses the difference between folklore and “folk-law.” Many of the stories take the form of parables and serve as a form of cultural law. The Deceitful Spider, the Half-Man, and the Rubber-Girl “The Spider” pretends to go and work everyday, until his wife asks where the ground-nut crop is. Then he goes and steals ground-nuts from the Half-Man. The Half-Man makes a rubber girl with big breasts. When the Spider grabs ahold of them, he gets stuck. HE kicks and gets even more stu… text/html 2023-01-01T22:24:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=virgil&rev=1672611884&do=diff Poem Link Summary Link Summary Link Aeneas is the main hero in this Roman epic. After the fall of Troy, Aeneas escapes and leads a fleet to found Rome. Juno (Hera from Greek), convinces Aeolus, god of winds, to stop them. Neptune saves them and they eventually wind up on the shores of Northern Africa, specifically Carthage. text/html 2023-03-18T18:43:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=visual_rhetoric&rev=1679165036&do=diff Visual/Rhetoric Specialty Area 2 Rationale This is the rhetoric and visual rhetoric list (Visual/Rhetoric). It compiles all the major works for rhet-comp-type rhetorical philosophy. I have brought in a few pieces that address racial and ethnic qualities of rhetoric. There are pieces to support the concept of a comic book discourse community. Other pieces help address convergence culture and adaptation studies in determining adaptation strategies and why they were employed. The visual rhetoric … text/html 2022-02-26T21:26:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=visual_rhetoric_specialty_area&rev=1645910779&do=diff Alaniz, Jose. Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond. UP of Mississippi, 2014 Averett, Paige. “The Search for Wonder Woman: An Autoethnography of Feminist Identity.” Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work. #24 2009. pp 360-368 text/html 2022-12-26T20:05:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=von_kleist_heinrich&rev=1672085158&do=diff Outdoor Play Link Laura Mulvey Film Link Unlike the Aethiopis, Penthesilea is definitely in love with Achilles. In this version Achilles is captured by the Amazons, then escapes. Penthesilea and Achilles do battle with one another and both fall. Mortally wounded, Penthesilea believes she has conquered Achilles in battle. Amazons can only marry those they have defeated in battle. So, Achilles let's her go on believing this because he is so in love with her. Eventually, the ruse is exposed and … text/html 2022-12-26T21:50:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=wagner_richard&rev=1672091415&do=diff Opera Link text/html 2022-12-26T18:20:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=wilde_lyn_webster&rev=1672078846&do=diff Kindle Link text/html 2023-03-12T23:17:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=williams_keira_v&rev=1678663021&do=diff Dorothy Gale, a farm girl from Kansas, leads a ragtag band of men through a dangerous landscape, confronts a “Great and Terrible” wizard, assassinates a fearsome Wicked Witch, and goes on to form a long-term, mutually supportive sisterhood with the female leaders of this strange land. A few decades later, Princess Diana, popularly known as Wonder Woman, leaves behind a race of Amazons on Paradise Island, a land of peace, prosperity, and equality, to fight for “America, the last citadel of democr… text/html 2023-01-05T23:13:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=women_from_russia&rev=1672960409&do=diff “The Russian peasants know, for example, of the “Wild Women” of the woods who have their abode in mountain caverns where they maintain households, like human beings. They are hand­ some females, with fine square heads, abundant tresses, and hairy bodies. They fling their breasts over their shoulders when they run and when they nurse their children. They go in groups. With unguents prepared from forest roots they can anoint and render themselves invisible. They like to dance or tickle people to d… text/html 2023-01-07T18:20:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=women_in_dahomey_amazons&rev=1673115626&do=diff Book Link Seh-Oong-Hong-Beh Also known as Seh-Dong-Hong-Beh “Seh-Dong-Hong-Beh, meaning “God Speaks True” in Fon, was a leader of the Dahomey Amazon army in the Bight of Benin region. These female soldiers were known as ahosi. This image shows her in war uniform, holding rifle in one hand and decapitated head of enemy in the other. According to Forbes, text/html 2023-01-08T22:56:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=women_in_islam&rev=1673218616&do=diff Hind bint Utba She was the wife of Muhammad's final opponent, abu Sufyan. SHe eventually becomes a ruthless enemy of the Muslims before she and her husband convert. “Women on both sides joined the troops in battle to fight, to nurse the fallen, and encourage the fighters” (p66). text/html 2023-01-03T16:39:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=women_in_roman_myth&rev=1672763989&do=diff Juturna Sister of Turnus from the The Aenid by Virgil. She disguises herself as Turnus' chariot driver and leads him away from the battle to save him. text/html 2023-01-01T16:49:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=women_of_note&rev=1672591777&do=diff Article Link: 10 Forgotten Women Warriors of India Mythological Women Article Link: Mythological Women Warriors Quora Link Devi Ambika Goddess Ambika is described both as the sister or consort of Rudra in the Vajasabeyi Samhita III:58. In the Taittiriya Brahmana 1.6.10.4, Verse 1.8.6.4 also speaks of the same relationship of brother and sister between Ambika and Rudra and a sister showing no mercy towards the wicked. The commentator of this Brahmana, the sage Mahidhara, states that Ambika ass… text/html 2023-01-09T16:53:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=women_of_note_in_greek_myth&rev=1673283184&do=diff Penelope Wiki Link Penthesilea is the Queen of the Amazons. She is the daughter of Ares, god of war, and Ortrera. Her sisters are Hippolyta, Melanippe, and Antiope. Wiki Link She appears in the Aethiopis (600 BCE?), Virgil's Aenid (29-19 BCE), and Kleist's adaptation (1808 CE). text/html 2023-01-08T22:54:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=women_of_note_in_indian_mythology&rev=1673218461&do=diff Article Link: 10 Forgotten Women Warriors of India Mythological Women Article Link: Mythological Women Warriors Quora Link Devi Ambika Goddess Ambika is described both as the sister or consort of Rudra in the Vajasabeyi Samhita III:58. In the Taittiriya Brahmana 1.6.10.4, Verse 1.8.6.4 also speaks of the same relationship of brother and sister between Ambika and Rudra and a sister showing no mercy towards the wicked. The commentator of this Brahmana, the sage Mahidhara, states that Ambika ass… text/html 2023-01-10T01:12:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=women_of_note_in_norse_mythology&rev=1673313147&do=diff Sigerdrifa A valkyrie who has been asleep for years, imprisoned by her own armor. When Sigurth frees her, she tells him her story. Two kings were fighting, Agnar and Hjalm-Gunnar, and Odin had promised victory Hjalm-Gunnar. Sigerdrifa killed Hjalm-Gunnar in battle, and in retaliation Odin shot her with a sleep thorn ( Crawford 253). She proceeds to give Sigurth advice on how to act and behave in the world in return for her freeing him. text/html 2023-03-12T21:01:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=wood_andrea&rev=1678654894&do=diff Male comic book writers and artists still far outnumber female artists and writers in Western comics, and only a small proportion of women artists craft narratives that center around lesbian characters. Even fewer still make lesbian romance the central driving force of their narratives. Lea Hernandez’s Clockwork Angels, Colleen Coover’s Small Favors, and Ariel Schrag’s Potential are significant because they showcase multiple and fluid possibilities for visualizing lesbian romance in the medium o… text/html 2023-01-02T22:10:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=woodard_roger_d&rev=1672697442&do=diff Library Link Chapter 1 - Lyric and Greek Myth Epic Age - When the form “lyric” began. Lyric Age - Poets of lyric are associated with the archaic period. Khoros - the Greek term for Chorus, ,which means singing and dancing. This could include the audience. text/html 2022-02-27T00:13:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.academicalleyway.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=world_literature_primary_source_material&rev=1645920808&do=diff World Literature: The Hero and the Woman's Role ---------- 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