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Showing 1 to 20 of 104 for “"Heroism"”.
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Heroes and heroism in medieval Irish literature
… heroes and kings, the association between heroism and masculinity, pushes heroes into conflict with other heroes, and causes the development of clessa as repertoire of imagined martial arts. Further, this thesis argues that heroes operate in warrior bands comprised of other heroes, which …
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Female heroism and self-fashioning in young adult adaptations
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Photography and the Falklands Conflict : Homeric Heroism in Modern Warfare
The Falklands Conflict has always loomed large throughout my adult life. As a young man of 19 years old, I watched the television and read the newspapers with the same degree of excitement and fascination as most of the British population. In the following year, as a direct result of the passion …
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Impossible Heroes: Heroism and Political Experience in Early Modern England
… period also saw a sudden surge of interest in heroism. In a moment when the political impotence of individual action was widely felt, many of England's most prominent writers turned to heroic fictions that imagined personal potential triumphing over constituted political authority. Impossible …
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Equipment for Dying: A Dramatistic Critique of Heroism and the Crises Assaulting Returning Soldiers
… and the current U.S. construction of warrior heroism through the theoretical lens of “Equipment for Dying.” Equipment for Dying theorizes that each specific crisis or challenge faced is a contemporary incarnation of an archetypal challenged faced by all soldiers and the societies that send …
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Heroes on the home front : heroism and virtue in post-9/11 American cinema /
This thesis is intended to contribute to critical discussion of the American male hero in mainstream American war and action films post September 11, 2001 . The thesis investigates how these heroes' behaviour echoes a patriotic, conservative construction of the modern American as created through …
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The Ironic Representation of Masculine Heroism and Courage in Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage
… explores the ironic representation of masculine heroism and courage in Stephen Crane's novel, The Red Badge of Courage.
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Coming Home, Staying Put, and Learning to Fiddle: Heroism and Place in Charles Frazier's <em>Cold Mountain</em>.
<p>In his novel Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier weaves an intricate web of human stories, all converging to make a memorable statement about love, war, life, and death. This study examines these stories and the mythological, literary, and folk models Frazier employs, and in some cases revises, to …
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James Gillray's Design for a Naval Pillar: Naval Heroism and Patriotic Public Display in late Eighteenth-Century Britain
… derided official representations of naval heroism and the culture of patriotic public display within which they existed, attacking their idealism, socio-political exclusivity and links with loyalist propaganda and excess. This thesis interprets Gillray’s work as being indicative of his …
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The ambition of melancholy: the aesthetics of heroism in the lyric poetry of Juan Boscán and Fernando de Herrera
… stage. As this thesis will argue, ‘melancholic heroism’, an attitude that was central to the construction of the Spanish Petrarchan male subject, extended beyond the private to embody the principles of boundary transgression that underpinned the imperial project. The current project offers an …
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The Intended Heroic Behavior Scale: Creation and Validity of a Scale Predicting Heroism to Advance Developmental Research on Heroes
<p>Heroism – the phenomenon of individuals putting themselves at risk for the benefit of others – is a topic of increasing empirical interest (Franco et al., 2017). Applied heroism training programs have emerged with the goal of fostering heroism (Heiner, 2018). Psychologists have examined the …
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A study of Christ and his saints as representatives of the values of Christian heroism in Old English poetry
… investigates the concept of Christian heroism as it appears in a number of Old English poems, through a study of the figure of the miles Christi. These poems present a specific Christian heroism which, though couched in terms culled from Germanic heroism, nevertheless exists in its own …
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We Can Be Heroes: Sustaining Vitally Engaged Social Heroes in a Heroic Organization (ACT UP/New York)
… particularly important in understanding social heroism, which is characterized by heroic action in the service of existing and emerging community values, principles and ideals (Franco et al., 2011). Social heroism almost always entails serious risks for the hero and frequently requires committed …
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Achilles and The Batman on the Plane of Immanence: Deconstructing Heroic Models
… to reposition the way the reader views literary heroism. By defining heroism as a reaction to forces within and external to his society, heroism becomes a function of Michel Foucault’s concept of Otherness. Using Deleuze and Guattari’s notions of the Nomad, striated and unstriated space and …
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From Arcadia to Heroism: The Progression of the Protagonists in Evelyn Waugh's <em>Decline and Fall</em>, <em>A Handful of Dust</em> and <em>Brideshead Revisited</em>.
… the same type of character progressing towards heroism. This type of heroism is explained by using Carol Pearson's The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By. Using Pearson's archetypes to discuss these protagonists gives one a better understanding of the characters and their development as they …
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Hero Reports : mapping civic courage
… first by aggregating stories of everyday heroism, and then by thematically, geographically and temporally mapping them. By linking and contextualizing discrete moments of heroism, Hero Reports promotes a public discourse about how we create, enforce and value social norms. Balancing the …
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The Queer Gothic Hero's Journey in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
… repeatedly deny or subvert the normative idea of heroism later reified in Joseph Campbell’s archetypal theory. While Campbell’s hero attempts to secure and universalize a heterosocial story, Wilde’s hero is recuperated through a reconfiguring of normative failure as queer success. What is …
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William H. Sheldon's constitutional psychology: the somatotype as fiction
… a palpable benchmark for identifying nobility, heroism, and aristocracy. Sheldon's constitutional psychology, I argue, is a thinly disguised revolt against the falling away of this biological hegemony. The demise of heroism and "Promethean Will" or individuality was, for Sheldon, a matter of …
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Bourgeois heroics: Commercial anxieties and the rise of the mercantile hero in the early modern period
… a growing cultural trend away from an heroism associated with moral fortitude and noble birth (embodied in contemporary notions of the "courtier") towards one characterized by responsible economic policy and household management. This cultural shift, I contend, reflects the demands of a …
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