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Ikonen der Nation : Heldendarstellungen im post-sozialistischen Kroatien und Serbien
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Year: 2017 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : De Gruyter Oldenbourg,

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Aufgrund eines Fehlers in der Herstellung enthält die gedruckte Auflage Hinweise auf die falsche Creative Commons Lizenz (CC-BY-NC-ND statt CC-BY), daher wurde allen Exemplaren Erratazettel beigefügt. In den Online-Publikationen wurde dieser Fehler behoben. Es gilt für alle Ausgaben des Titels die CC-BY Lizenz. Nach dem Zusammenbruch Jugoslawiens stellte sich die brisante Frage, wer die Stelle des einstigen Helden Titos einnehmen und das von ihm hinterlassene visuelle Vakuum füllen würde. In Ikonen der Nationen analysiert Klaudija Sabo die künstlerischen Produktionen, die seit den 1980ern bis in die Gegenwart neue HeldInnenfiguren kreieren und damit nationale Identitätsbildungen in Kroatien und Serbien konstituieren. Um einen Stereotyp des Helden heraus zufiltern, wurde eine Bandbreite an bewegten und statischen Quellen, darunter Filme, Plakate, Postkarten, Comics, Karikaturen, Skulpturen sowie Malerei, herangezogen und miteinander in Bezug gesetzt. Damit liefert die Arbeit sowohl einen Beitrag zur vergleichenden Geschichte der Nationsbildungsprozesse als auch zum Verständnis der gewaltvollen Konflikte in den 1990er Jahren.

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Heroic virtue.


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Heroic identity in the world of Beowulf
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ISBN: 1282400487 9786612400483 9047425022 9789047425021 9789004171701 9004171703 Year: 2009 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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Readers of Beowulf have noted inconsistencies in Beowulf's depiction, as either heroic or reckless. Heroic Identity in the World of Beowulf resolves this tension by emphasizing Beowulf's identity as a foreign fighter seeking glory abroad. Such men resemble wreccan , "exiles" compelled to leave their homelands due to excessive violence. Beowulf may be potentially arrogant, therefore, but he learns prudence. This native wisdom highlights a king's duty to his warband, in expectation of Beowulf's future rule. The dragon fight later raises the same question of incompatible identities, hero versus king. In frequent reference to Greek epic and Icelandic saga, this revisionist approach to Beowulf offers new interpretations of flyting rhetoric, the custom of "men dying with their lord," and the poem's digressions.


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Homer on the gods and human virtue : creating the foundations of classical civilization
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ISBN: 131616392X 1316166902 1316166236 1316165779 0521141559 1316166465 1316166686 1316167127 1139018086 9781316166239 9781316166680 9781139018081 9780521193887 0521193885 1322177457 1316164381 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book seeks to restore Homer to his rightful place among the principal figures in the history of political and moral philosophy. Through this fresh and provocative analysis of the Iliad and the Odyssey, Peter J. Ahrensdorf examines Homer's understanding of the best life, the nature of the divine, and the nature of human excellence. According to Ahrensdorf, Homer teaches that human greatness eclipses that of the gods, that the contemplative and compassionate singer ultimately surpasses the heroic warrior in grandeur, and that it is the courageously questioning Achilles, not the loyal Hector or even the wily Odysseus, who comes closest to the humane wisdom of Homer himself. Thanks to Homer, two of the distinctive features of Greek civilization are its extraordinary celebration of human excellence, as can be seen in Greek athletics, sculpture, and nudity, and its singular questioning of the divine, as can be seen in Greek philosophy.

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