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On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History 9780300148626
On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History 9780300148626

Based on a series of lectures delivered in 1840, Thomas Carlyle’s On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History con

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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History 9780520911536
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History 9780520911536

In his 1840 lectures on heroes, Thomas Carlyle, Victorian essayist and social critic, championed the importance of the i

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On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History [ebook ed.] 1843270846, 9781843270843
On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History [ebook ed.] 1843270846, 9781843270843

From its first pages the book recognizes the intimate connections between heroism and myth. Beginning with the legends o

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On the Heroic Frenzies 9781442698116
On the Heroic Frenzies 9781442698116

This vibrant bilingual edition, annotated by celebrated Bruno scholar Ingrid D. Rowland, features the text in its origin

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Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition 9781501723223
Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition 9781501723223

An astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Sirat Bani Hilal has been perf

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Heroines, Heroes and Deity: Three Narratives of the Biblical Heroic Tradition 9780567662392, 9780567662378, 9780567662385
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Kamrada’s study analyses three narratives concerning the greatest heroic figures of the biblical tradition: Jephthah’s d

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Heroes and Villains: Creating National History in Contemporary Ukraine 9786155211355
Heroes and Villains: Creating National History in Contemporary Ukraine 9786155211355

Certain to engender debate in the media, especially in Ukraine itself, as well as the academic community. Using a wide s

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Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era: History and Memory in Late Twentieth-Century America 9780226741901
Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era: History and Memory in Late Twentieth-Century America 9780226741901

By the 1920s, Abraham Lincoln had transcended the lingering controversies of the Civil War to become a secular saint, ho

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Heroes and Anti-Heroes in Medieval Romance 1843843048, 9781843843047
Heroes and Anti-Heroes in Medieval Romance 1843843048, 9781843843047

Medieval romances so insistently celebrate the triumphs of heroes and the discomfiture of villains that they discourage

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Epic Heroes on Screen 9781474424523
Epic Heroes on Screen 9781474424523

Representations of the ancient hero in the new millennium Since 2000, numerous heroes of the ancient world have appeare

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