The Modern Hercules: Images of the Hero from the Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century 9789004440067, 9004440062

The Modern Hercules explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles – the Roman Hercules – in western culture

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The Modern Hercules: Images of the Hero from the Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Hercules, the Modern Man: an Introduction
Part 1: The Hero in Literature, Art and Politics
Part 1.1: Nineteenth- to Twenty-first-century Literature
1 Hercules among the Germans: from Winckelmann to Hölderlin
2 Hercules among the Tractarians: Typological Reading in Isaac Williams' The Christian Scholar
3 'And maybe in your case there wouldn't be a Herakles.': Herakles in C.P. Cavafy and Yannis Ritsos
4 The Mirror of Greek Myth: James McAuley's 'The Hero and the Hydra'
5 The Egg-headed Hero: Agatha Christie's The Labours of Hercules
6 Hercules as Romantic Hero in Twenty-first-century Historical Fiction
Part 1.2: A Hero for Children?
7 Hercules in Children's Literature: a 'warts and all' Model of Masculinity?
8 Demigod, God or Monster? Rick Riordan's Hercules
9 The Incredible Hercules: Prince of Power
Part 1.3: Political Discourse
10 Whose Hero? Hercules and His Avatars in Political Discourse
11 Reimagining Herakles: a Supporter of the Greek Revolution and a Defender of the Greek Crown
12 Ο Ηρακλής πήρε το ρόπαλό του ('Herakles took up his club'): the Reception of Herakles in the Modern Greek Press
13 A Coruña, Cidade Herculina: Hercules as Founder of Cities
14 Exhibiting Maguire's Herakles: a Dialogue between Old and New Worlds
Part 2: From Image to Screen
Part 2.1: Modes of Reception
15 Herakles on Chesil Bank: The Archers, Disavowable Classics, and The Small Back Room
16 'The Muscles of Hercules Beneath the Skin of Antinous': Mapping Herculean Stardom in Film Fan-Magazine Discourse
17 Hercules 'Down-Under': Antipodean Experiences of the Hero's Machismo
Part 2.3: Millenial Concerns
18 The Mighty Hercules Cartoon Series in Conversation with Steve Reeve's Hercules and Some Societal Concerns of the Early 1960s
19 Asterix as the New Hercules: The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (1976)
20 Disney's Hercules in Context: Mouse-morality for Mini-heroes
21 A Real American Hero: the Superhero-fication of Disney's Hercules
22 The Transnational Convergence of Family Values, Computer-Generated Monsters, and Cleavage in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Part 2.3: Millenial Concerns
23 The Labours of Hercules-Sama
24 Hercules' Self-fashioning on Screen: Millennial Concerns and Political Dimensions
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
Part 2.4: From Graphic Novel to Blockbuster Film
26 'I Am Hercules' in 2014: Rebooting and Rationalizing a Modern Hero
27 Warriors, Murderers, Savages: Violence in Steve Moore's Hercules: The Thracian Wars
28 Sex and Gender, Race and Orientalism in Steve Moore's Hercules Comics
29 How the Rock became Rockules: Dwayne Johnson's Star Text in Hercules (2014)
Index

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