ENGL 2P13 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Byronic Hero, Antihero, Traditional Medicine
22 Jan 2016
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New picture found oct 2015: http:// www. dailymail. co. uk https://www. youtube. com/watch?v= https:// www. youtube. com/watch?v=tfgqzeogxjy. Billy the kid as a media creation - the folk hero / anti-hero - historiographic metafiction. 1846, coined by antiquarian william j. thoms (1803-1885) as an anglo-saxonism (replacing popular antiquities) and first published in the athenaeum of aug. 22, Social construct in the oral tradition popularly known. Represents the people of a specific place in their struggle against figures of power (the bad king of robin hood) The villain is understood to be different from the people/more powerful than the people. The folk hero had another future planned but is interrupted/forced into action by trauma. The folk hero restores hope of freedom from grotesquely unfair situations. The folk hero typically has great ability to escape wrongful justice a negative mirror of the villain who has a great ability to escape rightful justice. Often dies or disappears and becomes a martyr (che guevera)
