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 and sign...
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Language: English
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Call Number: NX652.H4
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Hercules, the Modern Man: an Introduction
- Alastair Blanshard and Emma Stafford
- Part 1: The Hero in Literature, Art and Politics
- Part 1.1: Nineteenth- to Twenty-first-century Literature
- 1 Hercules among the Germans
- Will Desmond
- 2 Hercules among the Tractarians: Typological Reading in Isaac Williams' The Christian Scholar
- Clemence Schultze
- 3 'And maybe in your case there wouldn't be a Herakles...': Herakles in C.P. Cavafy and Yiannis Ritsos
- Charilaos N. Michalopoulos
- 4 'The mirror of Greek myth': James McAuley's The Hero and the Hydra
- Rachael White
- 5 Agatha Christie's Twelve Labours of Hercules
- Hugo Koning
- 6 Hercules as Romantic Hero in Twenty-first-century Historical Fiction
- Eleanor OKell
- Part 1.2: A Hero for Children?
- 7 Hercules in Children's Literature: a 'warts and all' Model of Masculinity?
- Owen Hodkinson
- 8 Demigod, God or Monster? Rick Riordan's Hercules
- Frances Foster
- 9 The Incredible Hercules
- Hugo Koning
- Part 1.3: Political Discourse
- 10 Whose Hero? Hercules and His Avatars in Political Discourse
- Paula James
- 11 Reimagining Herakles: a Supporter of Greek Revolution and a Defender of the Greek Crown
- Maria Xanthou and Kleoniki Kyrkopoulou
- 12 'Ο Ηρακλής πήρε το ρόπαλό του' ['Herakles got his club']: the Reception of Herakles in the Modern Greek Press
- Andreas N. Michalopoulos
- 13 A Coruña, Cidade Herculina : Hercules as Founder of Cities
- Maria Seijo-Richart
- 14 Exhibiting Maguire's Herakles: a Dialogue between Old and New Worlds
- Emma Stafford
- Part 2: From Image to Screen
- Part 2.1: Modes of Reception
- 15 Herakles on Chesil Bank: the Archers' Disavowable Classicism and The Small Back Room (1949)
- Stephe Harrop
- 16 'The muscles of Hercules beneath the skin of Antinous': Mapping Herculean Stardom in Film Fan-magazine Discourse
- Michael Williams
- 17 Hercules 'Down Under': Antipodean Experiences of the Hero's Machismo
- Matthew Dillon
- Part 2.2: For the Younger Viewer
- 18 The Mighty Hercules Cartoon Series in Conversation with Steve Reeve's Hercules , Super-hero Comics and 1960s Societal Concerns
- Arlene Allan
- 19 Asterix as the New Hercules: The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (1976)
- Eran Almagor
- 20 Disney's Hercules in Context: Mouse-morality for Mini-heroes
- Lisa Maurice
- 21 A Real American Hero: the Superhero-ification of Disney's Hercules
- Sam Summers
- 22 The Convergence of Family Values, Computer-Generated Monsters, and Cleavage in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
- Jon Solomon
- Part 2.3: Millenial Concerns
- 23 The Labours of Hercules-Sama
- Ayelet Peer
- 24 Hercules' Self-fashioning on Screenː Millennial Concerns and Political Dimensions
- Jean Alvares and Patricia Salzman-Mitchell
- 25 '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
- Part 2.4: From Graphic Novel to Blockbuster Film
- 26 'I am Hercules!': Rebooting, Rationalization and Heroism in 2014
- Joel Gordon
- 27 Warriors, Murderers, Savages: Violence in Steve Moore's Hercules: The Thracian Wars
- Katherine Lu Hsu
- 28 Sex and Gender, Race and Orientalism in Steve Moore's Hercules Comics
- T. H. M. Gellar-Goad
- 29 How the Rock became Rockules: Dwayne Johnson's Star Text in Hercules (2014)
- Monica Cyrino
- Index.