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Virginity, Wilderness, and Bows: Diana's Return in Contemporary Cinema

Virginity, Wilderness, and Bows: Diana's Return in Contemporary Cinema

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Virginity, Wilderness, and Bows: Diana's Return in Contemporary Cinema

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Virginity, Wilderness, and Bows: Diana's Return in Contemporary Cinema

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Cuttack: Vishvanatha Kaviraja Institute of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics

Journal title

Journal of comparative literature & aesthetics, 2020-12, Vol.43 (4), p.28-38

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English

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Cuttack: Vishvanatha Kaviraja Institute of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics

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Contents

This paper identifies and analyses the echoes of Artemis/Diana's mythical character in the construction of The Hunger Games' heroine Katniss Everdeen. Three main characteristics are approached--her virginity, her love for the woods, and her use of bows--with an emphasis on the symbolic potential of the heroic image reimagined and reused in the film...

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Virginity, Wilderness, and Bows: Diana's Return in Contemporary Cinema

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2584040618

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2584040618

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0252-8169

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