The Underwater Quest of Prince Lee-Char: Renewing the Hero Archetype in Star Wars
The first three episodes of the fourth season of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars describe the adventures of the young Prince Lee-Char, the Mon Calamari heir of the throne of the famous eponymous water world, as he struggles against the droid armies, engaging in a form of a rite of pass...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2019]
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| In: |
Journal of religion and popular culture
Year: 2019, Volume: 31, Issue: 1, Pages: 44-58 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Star wars: The clone wars (Film)
/ Superhero
/ Theriomorphismus
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AZ New religious movements |
| Further subjects: | B
tale
B human-animal hybrid B merfolk B sea monster B Paganism B Ocean B Messiah B therianthropism B Sea |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Resolving-System) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | The first three episodes of the fourth season of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars describe the adventures of the young Prince Lee-Char, the Mon Calamari heir of the throne of the famous eponymous water world, as he struggles against the droid armies, engaging in a form of a rite of passage with mystical components. This aquatic tale can be analyzed on three distinct levels: a "macroscopic" perspective suggesting that this trilogy takes place in a specific context, a "microscopic" analysis exploring some specific elements of this quest as a form of pagan journey, and an intermediate "mesoscopic" point of view focusing on Prince Lee-Char as an individual and evaluating his function as a messianic figure. Drawing upon these three interconnected layers and the therianthropic nature of Prince Lee-Char, this article will explore how this underwater quest of Prince Lee-Char belongs to the logic of the Star Wars narrative and symbolic frameworks, yet how Prince Lee-Char, as a non-Force user and non-human character, renews the Star Wars hero archetype. |
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| ISSN: | 1703-289X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.2018-0045 |
