Bøker av Douglas a Burton

Archetypal Designs in Heroine-Led FictionThe hero's journey has been the go-to model for story structure for decades. Now, Douglas A. Burton presents a groundbreaking new paradigm for writers. Sourced entirely from heroine-led fiction-the results add new perspectives and strategies to the storytelling landscape. Take a fresh look at the dynamism of story, conflict, character development, archetypes, and heroism in an entirely new light. From myth to literature, from TV to film, The Heroine's Labyrinth explores the recurrent themes and patterns modeled by heroic women in fiction.Inside, you'll discover 18 archetypal designs that form a distinctive narrative arc, each one rich with profound meaning and secret wisdom. Discover the narrative power of timeless archetypes such as The Masked Minotaur, the Sacred Fire, the Beast as Ally, the Poisoned Apple, and more. Novelists, screenwriters, RPG game/dungeon masters, and memoirists will immediately benefit from the storytelling model of The Heroine's Labyrinth.

Inspired by true events, Far Away Bird delves into the complex mind of Byzantine Empress Theodora. This intimate account deftly follows her rise from actress-prostitute in Constantinople’s red-light district to the throne of the Byzantine Empire. ΓÇ¿Her salacious past has left historians blushing and uncomfortable.ΓÇ¿Tales of her shamelessness have survived for centuries, and yet her accomplishments as an empress are unparalleled. Theodora goes on to influence sweeping reforms that result in some of the first ever Western laws granting women freedom and protection. More than a millennium before the women’s rights movement, Theodora, alone, took on the world’s greatest superpower and succeeded. Far Away Bird goes where history classrooms fear to tread in hopes that Theodora can finally take her seat among the greatest women in history.ΓÇ¿Theodora seems impossible—yet her transcendence teaches us that society can’t tell us who we are deep down. Before there was a legendary empress, there was a conflicted young woman from the lower classes.And her name was Theodora.