SUPERANTITHESIS SOME REMARKS ON SUPERMAN’S RHETORIC NATURE
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22481/aprender.i24.7758Keywords:
Superman, Rhetoric, Antithesis, Super hero, Mass cultureAbstract
This paper is a brief investigation regarding the problems generated by the antithetical disposition
in the myth of Superman’s origin. Despite being a late narrative, this myth gives consistency to a dubious
interface of the hero: an exceptional redemption of the average American.
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