{"product_id":"the-modern-hercules-images-of-the-hero-from-the-nineteenth-to-the-early-twenty-first-century-9789004440005","title":"The Modern Hercules: Images of the Hero from the Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 significance in a wide range of modern media, including literature, visual arts and film. The volume is one of four to be published in the Metaforms series examining the extraordinarily persistent figuring of Herakles-Hercules in western culture, drawing together scholars from a range of disciplines to offer a unique insight into the hero’s perennial appeal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Modern Hercules est un ouvrage fort agréable, présentant de nombreuses illustrations et un index. Il constitue un véritable outil à destination d’un public déjà connaisseur du héros, désireux d’ouvrir son horizon de compréhension sur la réception d’Hercule\" - Mathieu Scapin, in: Anabases 10.04.2022  \"As an edited volume, this book offers an amazing breadth of work covering a wide selection of media and varying portrayals of Hercules. ... [It] offers incisive commentary, showcasing lesser-known case studies and parallels, and most importantly of all it exposes areas in need of further study and exploration.\" - Owen Rees, in: BMCR 2022.06.06\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210808516951,"sku":"9789004440005","price":161.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-modern-hercules-images-of-the-hero-from-the-nineteenth-to-the-early-twenty-first-century-9789004440005","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}