LEADER 03233nam 2200481 450 001 9910806996703321 005 20200918174544.0 010 $a90-272-6155-5 035 $a(CKB)4100000010328200 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6110149 035 $a(PPN)253734509 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010328200 100 $a20200401d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe hero reloaded $ethe reinvention of the classical hero in contemporary mass media /$fedited by Rosario Lo?pez Gregoris, Cristo?bal Maci?as Villalobos 210 1$aAmsterdam ;$aPhiladelphia :$cJohn Benjamins Publishing Company,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (176 pages) 225 1 $aIVITRA research in linguistics and literature ;$vVolume 23 311 $a90-272-0495-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"What was a hero in Classical Antiquity? Why is it that their characteristics have transcended chronological and cultural barriers while they are still role models in our days? How have their features changed to be embodied by comic superheroes and film? How is their essence vulgarized and turned into a mass consumption product? What has happened with their literary and artistic representation along centuries of elitist Western culture? This book aims at posing these and other questions about heroes, allowing us to open a cultural reflection over the role of the classical world in the present, its meaning in mass media, and the capacity of the Greek and Roman civilizations to dialogue with the modern world. This dialogue offers a glimpse into modern cultural necessities and tendencies which can be seen in several aspects, such as the hero's vulnerability, the archetype's banalization, the possibility to extend the heroic essence to individuals in search of identities - vital as well as gender or class identities. In some products (videogames, heavy metal music) our research enables a deeper understanding of the hero's more obvious characteristics, such as their physical and moral strength. All these tendencies - contemporary and consumable, contradictory with one another, yet vigorous above all - acquire visibility by means of a polyhedral vehicle which is rich in possibilities of rereading and reworking: the Greco-Roman hero. In such a virtual and postmodern world as the one we inhabit, it comes not without surprise that we still resort to an idea like the hero, which is as old as the West"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aIVITRA research in linguistics and literature ;$vv, 23. 606 $aHeroes in mass media 606 $aCivilization, Classical, in mass media 606 $aSuperheroes 615 0$aHeroes in mass media. 615 0$aCivilization, Classical, in mass media. 615 0$aSuperheroes. 676 $a302.2308 702 $aLo?pez Gregoris$b Rosario 702 $aMaci?as Villalobos$b Cristo?bal 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910806996703321 996 $aThe hero reloaded$93926048 997 $aUNINA