The modern Hercules : images of the hero from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century /
"The Modern Hercules explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles - the Roman Hercules - in western culture from the nineteenth century to the present day. Each chapter considers a particular work or theme in detail, exploring this complex hero's transformations of identity an...
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| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2020]
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| سلاسل: | Metaforms ;
v. 21. |
| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2754243 |
جدول المحتويات:
- Hercules, the Modern Man: an Introduction / Alastair J.L. Blanshard and Emma Stafford
- Hercules among the Germans / Will Desmond
- Hercules among the Tractarians: Typological Reading in Isaac Williams' The Christian Scholar / Clemence Schultze
- 'And maybe in your case there wouldn't be a Herakles...': Herakles in C.P. Cavafy and Yiannis Ritsos / Charilaos N. Michalopoulos
- The Mirror of Greek Myth: James McAuley's 'The Hero and the Hydra' / Rachael White
- The Egg-headed hero: Agatha Christie's The Labours of Hercules / Hugo Koning
- Hercules as Romantic Hero in Twenty-first-century Historical Fiction / Eleanor OKell / Alastair J.L. Blanshard and Emma Stafford
- Hercules in Children's Literature: a 'warts and all' Model of Masculinity? / Owen Hodkinson
- Demigod, God or Monster? Rick Riordan's Hercules / Frances Foster
- The Incredible Hercules: Prince of Power / Hugo Koning
- Whose Hero? Hercules and His Avatars in Political Discourse / Paula James
- Reimagining Herakles: a Supporter of the Greek Revolution and a Defender of the Greek Crown / Maria Xanthou and Kleoniki Kyrkopoulou
- 'O Ēraklēs pēre to ropalo tou' ['Herakles took up his club']: the Reception of Herakles in the Modern Greek Press / Andreas N. Michalopoulos
- A Coruña, Cidade Herculina: Hercules as Founder of Cities / María Seijo-Richart
- Exhibiting Maguire's Herakles: a Dialogue between Old and New Worlds / Emma Stafford
- Herakles on Chesil Bank: the Archers' Disavowable Classicism and The Small Back Room (1949) / Stephe Harrop
- 'The Muscles of Hercules Beneath the Skin of Antinous': Mapping Herculean Stardom in Film Fan-magazine Discourse / Michael Williams
- Hercules 'Down Under': Antipodean Experiences of the Hero's Machismo / Matthew Dillon
- The Mighty Hercules Cartoon Series in Conversation with Steve Reeve's Hercules, Super-hero Comics and 1960s Societal Concerns / Arlene Allan
- Asterix as the New Hercules: The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (1976) / Eran Almagor
- Disney's Hercules in Context: Mouse-morality for Mini-heroes / Lisa Maurice
- A Real American Hero: the Superhero-ification of Disney's Hercules / Sam Summers
- The Convergence of Family Values, Computer-Generated Monsters, and Cleavage in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys / Jon Solomon
- The Labours of Hercules-Sama / Ayelet Peer
- Hercules' Self-fashioning on Screen: Millennial Concerns and Political Dimensions / Jean Alvares and Patricia Salzman-Mitchell
- 'Through a glass, partly' Reflections of Hercules in Video Games: the Mythodiegesis of Depictions of Hercules in Video Games, and Their Groundings in Medium and Textual Requirements and Contexts / Alix Beaumont
- 'I am Hercules!': Rebooting, Rationalization and Heroism in 2014 / Joel Gordon
- Warriors, Murderers, Savages: Violence in Steve Moore's Hercules: The Thracian Wars / Katherine Lu Hsu
- Sex and Gender, Race and Orientalism in Steve Moore's Hercules Comics / T. H. M. Gellar-Goad
- How the Rock became Rockules: Dwayne Johnson's Star Text in Hercules (2014) / Monica Cyrino / Joel Gordon
- Warriors, Murderers, Savages: Violence in Steve Moore's Hercules: The Thracian Wars / Katherine Lu Hsu
- Sex and Gender, Race and Orientalism in Steve Moore's Hercules Comics / T. H. M. Gellar-Goad
- How the Rock became Rockules: Dwayne Johnson's Star Text in Hercules (2014) / Monica Cyrino.