CULTURE HEROES. The culture hero is a mythical being found in the religious traditions of many archaic societies. Although the culture hero sometimes assists the supreme being in the creation of the world, the most important activity for the culture...

A culture hero is a mythological hero specific to some group (cultural, ethnic, racial, religious, etc.) who changes the world through invention or discovery. A typical culture hero might be credited as the discoverer of fire, or agriculture, songs,...

Exhibitions 1 Hero of the counter-culture Robert Crumb - A Chronicle of Modern Times Cummings and Lewandowska - Enthusiasm Whitechapel Art Gallery, until 22 May Robert Crumb (born Philadelphia 1943) is variously hailed as a 'virtuoso weirdo', the 'father...

In The Tragic Muse, Henry James has a character, a Mr. Carteret, of whom he writes, "Life, for him, was a purely practical function, not a question of phrasing" For James, life was not entirely but in good part precisely a question of...