The hero and hero-making across genres / edited by Amar Singh, Shipra Tholia and Pravin K. Patel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Singh, Amar, editor.

Tholia, Shipra, editor.

Patel, Pravin K., editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heroes in popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

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Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

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Biography/History:

Amar Singh is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Mahila Mahavidyalaya (MMV), Banaras Hindu University, India. He has completed his doctoral research on Hyperrealism and Christopher Nolan's Cinematic Texts in 2016 from Banaras Hindu University. At present he is working as a post-doctoral researcher (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at Bergische Universitt̃ Wuppertal, Germany. His research interest areas are English Literature, Film Studies and Popular Culture. Shipra Tholia is Assistant Professor at the Department of German Studies, Banaras Hindu University, India. She has completed her M.Phil from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is currently pursuing her doctoral research from Bergische Universitt̃ Wuppertal, Germany as a German Academic Exchange Service/ DAAD scholar. Her research interest areas are Media Studies, Narratology, German Language and Literature. Pravin K Patel is Assistant Professor of English, Mahila Mahavidyalaya (MMV), Banaras Hindu University, India. He received his Doctorate in English from the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. His areas of interest are medical humanities and English literature.

Contents:

Introduction / Amar Singh and Shipra Tholia. PART 1: Hero(es) across Traditions. q. The Hero

on Closer Inspection a Fool? / Ursula Kocher

2. Udaaseeno Mahabalaha: Displacement of the Heroic in the Mnemocultures of India / Venkat Rao

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 / Stefan Lindinger

4. Transformed Heroes: The Bīr Bābās and their Religio-Cultural Metamorphosis / Banibrata Mahanta. PART II: Hero(es) across Fictions. 5. Folktale's Hero in the Post-Truth World / Sadhana Naithani

6. How to Live (Happily) Ever After: Heroic Selflessness in Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales / Julie K Allen

7. The Unheroic Hero in Heinrich Böll's Und Sagte Kein Einziges Wort / S Santha Kumari

8. Incompetent Heroism: Revisiting the Image of the Hero in Thomas Brüssig's 'Heroes like Us' / Shipra Tholia. PART III: Cinematic Hero(es) and Beyond. 9. Meet the Real Protagonists of Everyday Life / Anil Zankar

10. Transgressing the Borders of Space and Time the Heroism of the Pilot Joseph Cooper in Christopher Nolan's 'Interstellar' / Thomas Schwarz and Amar Singh

11. 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' and the Crises of a Hero in Love / Amar Singh. PART IV: Making/Unmaking of Hero(es) across Media and Culture. 12. Daredevil Philosophy: Dean Potter's "When Dogs Fly" / Stefan Börnchen

13. Of Nation and Masculinity in Bollywood Sports Biopics: Recontextualizing 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' and 'Dangal' / Hariom Singh

14. The Representation of Dalit Women Heroes in Nalini Jameela's 'The Autobigraphy of a Sex Worker' and Yashica Dutt's 'Coming out as a Dalit' / Parveen Kumari

15. The Hero and the Other: The Making and Unmaking of the Heroes across Cultures / Pravin K Patel.

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9781000462517

100046251X

9780429345357

0429345356

9781000462586

1000462587

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40030873074

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