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1 online resource (263 p.) |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Hero(es) across traditions -- 1 The hero -- on closer inspection a fool? -- 2 Udaaseeno Mahabalaha: displacement of the heroic in the mnemocultures of India -- 3 The other side of heroism: construction and deconstruction of the heroic in German literature on Greece's struggle for independence in works by Wilhelm Müller, Friedrich Hölderlin, and E.T.A. Hoffmann -- 4 Transformed heroes: the Bīr Bābās and their religio-cultural metamorphosis |
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Part II Hero(es) across fictions -- 5 Folktale's hero in the post-truth world -- 6 How to live (happily) ever after: heroic selflessness in Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales -- 7 The unheroic hero in Heinrich Böll's Und sagte kein einziges Wort -- 8 Incompetent heroism: revisiting the image of the hero in Thomas Brüssig's Heroes Like Us -- Part III Cinematic hero(es) and beyond -- 9 Meet the real protagonists of everyday life -- 10 Transgressing the borders of space and time: the heroism of the pilot Joseph Cooper in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar |
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11 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the crises of a hero in love -- Part IV Making/unmaking of hero(es) across media and culture -- 12 Daredevil philosophy: Dean Potter's When Dogs Fly -- 13 Of nation and masculinity in Bollywood sports biopics: recontextualizing Bhaag Milkha Bhaag and Dangal -- 14 The representation of Dalit women heroes in Nalini Jameela's The Autobiography of a Sex Worker and Yashica Dutt's Coming out as a Dalit -- 15 The hero and the other: the making and unmaking of heroes across cultures -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tholia, Shipra
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Patel, Pravin K
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| ISBN |
9781000462517 |
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100046251X |
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