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The Superman Syndrome--The Magic of Myth in The Pursuit of Power: The Positive Mental Moxie of Myth for Personal Growth by Gene Landrum (Paperback - May 4, 2005)
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Excerpt - page 28: "... many modern Asian artists have chosen to eliminate it as one of the ..."
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Baksheesh and Brahman: Asian Journals - India (Campbell, Joseph, Works.) by Joseph Campbell (Hardcover - Aug 13, 2002)
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Excerpt - page 318: "... one of the thirty-two traditional `great marks' of the Buddhist superman-savior." -Art of Indian Asia. vahana - "vehicle, mount." Animals and ..."
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Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race by John Hoberman (Paperback - Nov 3, 1997)
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Excerpt - page 64: "... traveled with Lewis and Clark and played the role of superman to the hilt: "His color, kinky hair, size and prodigious ..."
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Black Messiahs and Uncle Toms (Revised Edition): Social and Literary Manipulations of a Religious Myth by Wilson Jeremiah Moses (Paperback - April 1, 1982)
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Excerpt - Back Matter: "... of an Ex-Colored Man; McKay, Home to Harlem; Rogers, From Superman to Man; and McPherson, Hue and Cry. 5. ..."
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Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization by Heinrich Robert Zimmer and Joseph Campbell (Paperback - May 1, 1972)
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Excerpt - page 74: "... As embodiments of the principal virtues of the first Superman, they symbolize the re-united powers which are to open the ..."
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The Arabs: Myth and Reality by Gerald Butt (Paperback - Aug 15, 1997)
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Excerpt - page 229: "... stories are old-fashioned tales of tears and lament for the superman of their dreams, who never ..."
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The Shaping of Israeli Identity: Myth, Memory and Trauma (Israeli History, Politics, and Society) by R. Wistrich (Paperback - Jun 1, 1995)
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Excerpt - page 39: "... Concepts which he coined, such as "the blond beast", "the Superman" or "slave morality" have been taken out of context and ..."
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Red Arctic: Polar Exploration and the Myth of the North in the Soviet Union, 1932-1939 by John McCannon (Hardcover - April 9, 1998)
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Excerpt - page 101: "... way of Gorky, from the "heroic morality" of Nietzsche's so-called superman. This common myth can be framed in a Marxist context; ..."
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The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa, Volume 3: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism - The Myth of Freedom - The Heart of the Buddha - Selected Writings by Chogyam Trungpa and Carolyn Gimian (Hardcover - Feb 10, 2004)
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Excerpt - page 276: "... the dream of the comic books-Clark Kent transforming himself into Superman. ..."
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East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture by Shilpa Dave, Leilani Nishime, Tasha G. Oren, and Robert G. Lee (Paperback - May 1, 2005)
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Excerpt - page 280: "... new insight into the primary question of origins in the Superman myth. The story itself can be read as a commentary on ..."
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The King and the Clown in South Indian Myth and Poetry by David Dean Shulman (Hardcover - Jul 1, 1992)
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Excerpt - page 352: "... Tamil heroes are a strangely potent mixture of outcast and superman, the cursed and the blessed. ..."
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