Ever since Women in the West first started publishing works of fiction, they have written about a heroine who must wander from one place to another as she searches for a way to Live the life she wants to live, a life through which she can express her true self creatively in the world.
She recently blogging for www.thewellwrittenwoman.com ..
She also works as a freelance writer, editor, and writing coach.
Currently, she teaches classes and speaks on various topics related to mythology, archetypal studies, religion, psychology, and neuroscience.
She maintains a blog about mythic and archetypal motifs in current culture at jodybower.com/myths-archetypes-in-film/ . is a cultural mythologist with a doctorate in Mythological Studies with a Depth Psychology emphasis.
About author(s): Jody Gentian Bower , Ph.
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In the end, she concludes, authors of the Aletis Story use their imagination to give us characters who serve as role models for how a woman can Live a full and free life.
She gives examples from the lives of real Women and scatters stories that illustrate many of her points throughout the book.
She discusses how the Aletis Story differs from the hero\'s quest, how it has changed over the centuries as Women gained more independence, and what heroines of novels and movies might be like in the future.
Bower outlines the stages and cast of characters of the Aletis Story with many examples from the literature.
Using an engaging, down-to-earth writing style, Dr.
Bower argues that the Aletis represents an archetypal character that has to date received surprisingly little scholarly recognition despite her central role in many of the greatest works of Western fiction.
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She also discusses myths and folk tales that follow the same pattern.
Tolkien, and Alice Walker, to name just a few.
She finds a similar pattern in works spanning the centuries, from Lady Mary Wroth and William Shakespeare in the 1600s to Sue Monk Kidd, Suzanne Collins, and Philip Pullman in the current century, including works by Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing, J.
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In Jane Eyre\'s Sisters: How Women Live and Write the Heroine\'s Story , cultural mythologist Jody Gentian Bower looks at novels by women--and some men--as well as biographies of Women that tell the Story of the Aletis, the wandering heroine.
Yet while many have written about the heroine\'s journey, most of those authors base their models of this journey on Joseph Campbell\'s model of the Heroic Quest Story or on old myths and tales written down by men, not on the stories that Women tell.
Ever since Women in the West first started publishing works of fiction, they have written about a heroine who must wander from one place to another as she searches for a way to Live the life she wants to live, a life through which she can express her true self creatively in the world
