Buffy and the Heroine's Journey

The worlds of Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, and other modern epics feature the Chosen One--an adolescent boy who defeats the Dark Lord and battles the sorrows of the world. Television''s Buffy the Vampire Slayer represents a different kind of epic--the heroine''s journey, not the hero''s.

This provocative study explores how Buffy blends 1990s girl power and the path of the warrior woman with t...