Citations:counterhero


 * 1997, Pamela K. Gilbert, Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521593239 (hardback), ISBN 052102207X (paperback), chapter 5, :
 * She constructs Folle-Farine as the counterhero of a spiritual anti-quest modelled on Goethe's Faust, framed in references to the “Walpurgisnacht” intermezzo where Faust dances as Margarethe awaits execution.


 * 2007, Gary Westfahl, Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction, McFarland & Company, Inc., ISBN 9780786430796, part 2, chapter 6, :
 * As a counterhero, Kenobi is prominent in the action: he obtains the needed spaceship, begins training Luke, and battles Darth Vader when he knows that Luke is not ready.