Información General

• Autores: Rosario López Gregoris (coord.), Cristóbal Macías Villalobos (coord.)
• Editores: John Benjamins
• Año de publicación: 2020
• Colecciones: IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 23
• País: Países Bajos
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 978-90-272-0495-0, 978-90-272-6155-7
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Reseñas

• Ha sido reseñado en:

  • Reseña de Rosario López Gregoris y Cristóbal Macías Villalobos (coords.) (2020): The Hero Reloaded. The reinvention of the classical hero in contemporary mass media

    Candela Hornero Cano

    Analecta malacitana: Revista de la Sección de Filología de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, ISSN 0211-934X, Vol. 41, Nº 0, 2020, págs. 349-352

  • Rosario López Gregoris y Cristóbal Macías Villalobos (eds). The Hero Reloaded. The Reinvention of the Classical Hero in Contemporary Mass Media

    Enric Mallorquí Ruscalleda

    Rassegna iberistica, ISSN 0392-4777, Nº. 113, 2020, págs. 165-167

  • Rosario López Gregoris y Cristóbal Macías Villalobos (coords.), The Hero Reloaded. The reinvention of the classical hero in contemporary mass media, Amsterdam / Philadelphia, 2020

    Carolina Real Torres (res.)

    Revista de estudios latinos: RELat, ISSN-e 2255-5056, ISSN 1578-7486, Nº. 20, 2020, págs. 223-227

  • López Gregoris, Rosario y Cristóbal Macías Villalobos (eds.). 2020. The Hero Reloaded. The reinvention of the classical hero in contemporary mass media. Ámsterdam/Filadelfia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 160 pp. ISBN 978-90-272-0495-0

    Cristina Salcedo González (res.)

    1616: Anuario de la Sociedad Española de Literatura General y Comparada, ISSN 0210-7287, Nº 10, 2020, págs. 215-218

  • Rosario López Gregoris y Cristóbal Macías Villalobos (eds.), The Hero Reloaded. The Reinvention of the Classical Hero in Contemporary Mass Media, Ámsterdam-Filadelfia, John Benjamins Publishing Company, XIV + 160 páginas, ISBN 978-90-272-0495-0

    Carlos Sánchez Pérez

    Minerva: Revista de filología clásica, ISSN 0213-9634, Nº 34, 2021, págs. 253-256

Resumen

• What was a hero in Classical Antiquity? Why is it that their characteristics have transcended chronological and cultural barriers while they are still role models in our days? How have their features changed to be embodied by comic superheroes and film? How is their essence vulgarized and turned into a mass consumption product? What has happened with their literary and artistic representation along centuries of elitist Western culture? This book aims at posing these and other questions about heroes, allowing us to open a cultural reflection over the role of the classical world in the present, its meaning in mass media, and the capacity of the Greek and Roman civilizations to dialogue with the modern world. This dialogue offers a glimpse into modern cultural necessities and tendencies which can be seen in several aspects, such as the hero’s vulnerability, the archetype’s banalization, the possibility to extend the heroic essence to individuals in search of identities – vital as well as gender or class identities. In some products (videogames, heavy metal music) our research enables a deeper understanding of the hero’s more obvious characteristics, such as their physical and moral strength.

  All these tendencies – contemporary and consumable, contradictory with one another, yet vigorous above all – acquire visibility by means of a polyhedral vehicle which is rich in possibilities of rereading and reworking: the Greco-Roman hero. In such a virtual and postmodern world as the one we inhabit, it comes not without surprise that we still resort to an idea like the hero, which is as old as the West.

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Listado de artículos

• • From hero to superhero: The update of an archetype

    Luis Unceta Gómez

    págs. 1-18

    

  • Metamorphosis of the mythical hero in Disney's Hercules

    Antonio María Martín Rodríguez

    págs. 19-50

    

  • Κλέα ἀνδρῶν: Classical heroes in the heavy metal

    Helena González Vaquerizo

    págs. 51-72

    

  • The videogame hero in his labyrinth: The hero in electronic gaming

    Cristóbal Macías Villalobos

    págs. 73-102

    

  • Horrible deaths, grotesque deaths: inversion of the heroic model and construction of the reader-viewer

    Jesús Bartolomé Gómez

    págs. 103-128

    

  • Oedipus in Manhattan: From Sophocles to Woody Allen

    Leonor Pérez Gómez

    págs. 129-142

    

  • Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Homer, Joyce and Bechdel: Classical reception and comic hybridization. The heroine explores her sexual identity

    Rosario López Gregoris

    págs. 143-158