31.1456, Books: The Hero Reloaded: López Gregoris, Macías Villalobos (eds.)

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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:22:17
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: The Hero Reloaded: López Gregoris, Macías Villalobos (eds.)

 


Title: The Hero Reloaded 
Subtitle: The reinvention of the classical hero in contemporary mass media 
Series Title: IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 23  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/ivitra.23 


Editor: Rosario López Gregoris
Editor: Cristóbal Macías Villalobos

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261557 Pages: 160 Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261557 Pages: 160 Price: U.K. £ 76.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261557 Pages: 160 Price: Europe EURO 90.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204950 Pages: 160 Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204950 Pages: 160 Price: U.K. £ 76.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204950 Pages: 160 Price: Europe EURO 95.40


Abstract:

What was a hero in Classical Antiquity? Why is it that their characteristics
have transcended chronological and cultural barriers while they are still role
models in our days? How have their features changed to be embodied by comic
superheroes and film? How is their essence vulgarized and turned into a mass
consumption product? What has happened with their literary and artistic
representation along centuries of elitist Western culture?

This book aims at posing these and other questions about heroes, allowing us
to open a cultural reflection over the role of the classical world in the
present, its meaning in mass media, and the capacity of the Greek and Roman
civilizations to dialogue with the modern world. This dialogue offers a
glimpse into modern cultural necessities and tendencies which can be seen in
several aspects, such as the hero’s vulnerability, the archetype’s
banalization, the possibility to extend the heroic essence to individuals in
search of identities – vital as well as gender or class identities. In some
products (videogames, heavy metal music) our research enables a deeper
understanding of the hero’s more obvious characteristics, such as their
physical and moral strength.

All these tendencies – contemporary and consumable, contradictory with one
another, yet vigorous above all – acquire visibility by means of a polyhedral
vehicle which is rich in possibilities of rereading and reworking: the
Greco-Roman hero. In such a virtual and postmodern world as the one we
inhabit, it comes not without surprise that we still resort to an idea like
the hero, which is as old as the West.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature


Written In: English  (eng)

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