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Der Philosoph Georg Simmel

Tim-Florian Steinbach (ed.), Gerald Hartung (ed.), Heike Koenig (ed.)

Series: Kulturphilosophische Studien

Volume 8 2021

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Austin Harrington: »Fate« in the Thought of Simmel and Maeterlinck S. 243-258

„… efforts of Lukács, Bloch and other former followers of histeaching to tie the figure of objectification in …” „… , is any way of thinkingof death in the manner of the Greek mythical figures of the Parcae orMoirai …” „… matterof some situation of tragic heroic confrontation and conflict, such as itis with Michelangelo – as …”

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Classical Heroes in the 21st Century

Martin Lindner (ed.), Nils Steffensen (ed.)

Series: Helden - Heroisierungen - Heroismen

Volume 20 2023

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Martin Lindner, Nils Steffensen Introduction: Approaching Heroes S. 7-12

„… will henceforth use the generic latter term) is insolubly linked to their reali-sation. Heroic figures …” „… hence the heroic fig-ures can never come into being.2 Without Ulysses’ dangerous journey and Penelo-pe’s …” „… sed sine laude foret.”2 Tobias Schlechtriemen: Constitutive Processes of Heroic Figures, in …”

Torsten Caeners Patchworking the Man of Steel. Myth, Classical Heroes, Circus Strongman and the Creation of Superman S. 29-50

„… clearly visible in the direct appropriations of classical heroic figures that have appeared throughout the …” „… Superman and the traditional heroic figures of classical and nordic mythology, or of the figures of …” „… juxtaposition simultane-ously evinces the roots of superheroes in the classical heroic tradition and drives home …”

Luis Unceta Gómez From Antiquity to the Present and Back. Reciprocal Influences between Heroes and Superheroes S. 51-64

„… Bröckling: Héroes (Fn. 8), pp. 33–58, identifies and discusses the following qualities of heroic figures …” „… template of the figure of the classical hero, and those of the archetype of the superhero. The kind of …” „… modern renditions of mythical figures, such as Brett Ratner’s Hercules (2014), which is discussed here as …”

Alexander Vandewalle Transformations of Heroic Aesthetics. Cinematic Forces in Video Games S. 149-160

„… Ästhetiken und Genres / Aesthetics and GenresTransformations of Heroic AestheticsCinematic Forces …” „… . Zeitschrift für Filmforschung 5, 2013, pp. 22–39.3 Jens Eder / Jan-Noël Thon: Digitale Figuren in Kinofilm und …” „… - star-wars-storytelling-is-influenced-by-video-games-exclusive/ [18 July 2022].TRANSFORMATIONS OF HEROIC AESTHETICS 151Ever since classical reception in video …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 1-6

„… ................................................................................. 7Heldenfiguren und Heroisierung / Heroic Figures and HeroizationGeorg Eckert Idealbilder von Führung …” „… ......................................................... 65Negationen des Heroischen / Negations of the HeroicKrešimir Matijević Marcus Antonius im Film: Ein …” „… CONTENTSÄsthetiken und Genres / Aesthetics and GenresAlexander Vandewalle Transformations of Heroic Aesthetics …”

Krešimir Matijević Marcus Antonius im Film. Ein Held, der scheitert, oder ein Antiheld? S. 85-96

„… Negationen des Heroischen / Negations of the HeroicMarcus Antonius im FilmEin Held, der scheitert …” „… , oder ein Antiheld?Krešimir MatijevićAbstractBased on Ulrich Bröckling’s typology of the heroic, this …” „… mit der Zeit ihren Helden-status. Meines Erachtens ist die letzte Figur, also der Nichtmehrheld, der …”

Nils Steffensen Dynamiken des Unheroischen in Oliver Stones Alexander S. 131-146

„… antiheroes, non-heroes are largely considered irrelevant to heroic narratives. The view is widely shared that …” „… temporarily change their position in the broad spectrum of the un-heroic, thereby challenging the hero and his …” „… Figuren ist breit.2 Mit dem Helden teilen der Anti- und der Gegenheld sowie der ‚Wannabe‘ und der …”

Georg Eckert Idealbilder von Führung. Vergegenwärtigte Helden in Antikfilmen S. 15-28

„… Heldenfi guren und Heroisierung / Heroic Figures and HeroizationIdealbilder von …” „… inclined to identify the protagonists with modern nations. Instead, we are willing to accept such figures …” „… dem ver-storbenen Regisseur passenderweise eine „Vorliebe für bestimmte Stoffe und Figuren“: nämlich …”

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Bewunderer, Verehrer, Zuschauer: Die Helden und ihr Publikum

Ronald G. Asch (ed.), Michael Butter (ed.)

Series: Helden - Heroisierungen - Heroismen

Volume 2 2016

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Andreas Schlüter Blowing the Coals of Ambition. Hubert Languet, Giordano Bruno and Antonio Pérez as Marginal Hero-Makers in the Sidney-Essex Circle S. 45-74

„… without a group of worshippers or a public that believes in the capacity of the heroic figure to do some …” „… need of a heroic figure that could be projected on a living person who would lead this group. As …” „… of heroic status”.8 The group Naunton described was in need of a heroic figure they could turn their …”

Simon Wendt White Elite Women, the Gendered Memory of Heroism, and American Nationalism,1890–1939 S. 161-178

„… their benevolent masters, not as heroic figures who helped win American independence.29 Racism could …” „… identities, heroic men and women constitute central sources of authority and are used to legitimize social …” „… in the United States, including military heroes, heroic leaders, and super heroes, few scholars …”

Christiane Hadamitzky The History of a Magazine Is But the Influence of a Great Man? Thomas Carlyle and the Decline of “Fraser’s Magazine” S. 75-92

„… Gallery of Illustrious Literary Characters”. The series portrayed contemporary figures in the literary …” „… the important early decades of the magazine or, if exceeding that period, on specific figures …” „… the following in relation to his lectures on heroism. “On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in …”

Barbara Korte Viele Helden für viele Leser. Das Heroische in viktorianischen Publikumszeitschriften S. 93-114

„… . 41‒49. 3 T. Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History, London 1841 (Nachdr. London …” „… Opern bezeichnen. Es wurden also Fälle berücksichtigt, in denen auf heroische Figuren, Eigenschaften …” „… , galt, sondern auch mit der Muskete „heroic bearing“, ebd., S. 201, bewies. 27 Vgl. etwa G. Dawson …”

Ronald G. Asch – Michael Butter Verehrergemeinschaften und Regisseure des Charisma. Heroische Figuren und ihr Publikum. Einleitung S. 9-22

„… Verehrergemeinschaften und Regisseure des Charisma Heroische Figuren und ihr Publikum …” „… von heroischen Figuren stehen. Hier ist zunächst der Konstruktionscharakter von Heldinnen und Helden …” „… zu nennen. Heroische Figuren existieren nicht einfach, sondern werden gemacht, auch wenn eine …”

Carolin Bahr „die ganze gesellschaftliche Welt in einer Nuß“. Opernhelden und ihr Publikum am Beispiel des deutschen Hoftheaters im mittleren 19. Jahrhundert S. 115-138

„… sometimes transferred its energy to the public, and sometimes the heroic transfiguration of real life into …” „… opera inverted to become a heroic melodramaticization of the real.“6 Ähnlich konstatiert Bruce …” „… dessen Verhältnis zu Werk, Bühnengeschehen und den im Werk auftretenden (heroischen) Figuren richten soll …”

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Tracing the Heroic Through Gender

Carolin Hauck (ed.), Monika Mommertz (ed.), Andreas Schlüter (ed.), Thomas Seedorf (ed.)

Series: Helden - Heroisierungen - Heroismen

Volume 8 2018

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Anke Charton “I canti esaltino il suo valore”. Gendering the Operatic Sound of the Heroic S. 9-24

„… is central to the construction of uncontested heroic figures: it is an affirmative genre.7 And even …” „… figures, the more fruitful question might be whether a hero or a heroine is described as heroic through …” „… . It is precisely this game of turnabout that destabilizes the figure of the heroic: a ‘hero’ or …”

Melanie Unseld When Heroes Sigh. Sentimental Heroism in Opera Culture Around 1800 S. 157-176

„… borders evidently blurred so much in this heroic disposition of the figures of Isabella and Enrigue that …” „… femininity) are analysed with regard to their codes of the heroic. Therefore, no coincidence of masculinity …” „… and the heroic is reinforced, but the interest clearly focuses on how the heroic was used to …”

Christiane Hansen Gendering Fear. Heroic Figurations and Fearful Imagination in Restoration Drama S. 75-92

„… demand for heroic figures. Fear, moreover, intersects with frameworks of awe and admiration, with the …” „… within which heroic figures are (re)shaped. Yet, instead of proposing an essentialist explanation of how …” „… exceptional status but also the irregularity, and lacking predictability, of the heroic figure. While Dryden …”

Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly From Viragos to Valkyries. Transformations of the Heroic Warrior Woman in German Literature from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century S. 93-106

„… , while the Austrians, for instance, had Katharina Lanz, the “Heroic Maiden of Spinges”, a figure revered …” „… psychological drama that focuses on a small number of well-drawn characters. There are two heroic figures …” „… From Viragos to Valkyries Transformations of the Heroic Warrior Woman in German Literature from …”

Eva Struhal Heroes and Anti-Heroes. Reformulating the Heroic at the Accademia degli Apatisti in Seventeenth-Century Florence S. 39-58

„… certain literary heroic figures. This development ran counter to contemporary tendencies in …” „… Lippi create very different concepts of the hero. While Don Quixote is certainly a heroic figure in …” „… Heroes and Anti-Heroes Reformulating the Heroic at the Accademia degli Apatisti in …”

Barbara Becker-Cantarino The Dramatic Hero in the Gendered Imaginary of Early Modern Germany. Judith and Holofernes S. 59-74

„… on the male individual, on a masculine-coded character and his actions, a heroic figure that is …” „… attribution of heroic status, historians have celebrated him and later scholars investigated or dismantled …” „… to gain the attribute ‘heroic’ in the early modern era? ‘Heroine’, the feminine derivative of ‘hero …”

Birgit Mikus Untangling the Heroic from the Sacrifice. Malwida von Meysenbug’s Attempt to Appropriate a Common Female Topos in and for her Political Novel Phädra (1885) S. 25-38

„… portrayal of female and male heroic figures in arts and literature. Subverting, transgressing, or even …” „… Untangling the Heroic from the Sacrifice Malwida von Meysenbug’s Attempt to Appropriate a Common …” „… Meysenbug’s concept of the heroic. Meysenbug adopted Herzen’s youngest daughter, Olga, and moved with her to …”

Anne-Marie Metzger The Reigning Woman as a Heroic Monarch? Maria Theresa Traced as Sovereign, Wife, and Mother S. 177-200

„… , for example, heroic aspects in connection to the military and the imitation of figures from antiquity …” „… versatile, relational, and manifold character of heroic figures. Franz Bourgeois phrased it aptly: “We …” „… The Reigning Woman as a Heroic Monarch? Maria Theresa Traced as Sovereign, Wife, and Mother …”

Madeleine Brook Creating and Subverting German Models of Galanterie? Heroes and Heroines in Texts by Christian Friedrich Hunold and Maria Aurora von Königsmarck S. 107-124

„… heroic throughout history2, Ronald Asch lists as some of the defining characteristics of the hero their …” „… , which looks on in wonder at the figure they cut. If one subscribes to this definition, the seventeenth …” „… and early eighteenth-century monarch certainly did his best to create a heroic image for himself …”

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Bad Boys and Wicked Women

Daniela Hahn (ed.), Andreas Schmidt (ed.)

Series: Münchner Nordistische Studien

Volume 27 2016

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Andreas Schmidt, Daniela Hahn Bad Boys and Wicked Women: An Introduction S. 7-20

„… analyses of ›anti-heroic‹ (or ›heroic‹?) figures given above (see Poilvez, Merkelbach, Sauckel, Hahn, Groß, …” „… figures. They are lively, complex and so intricately constructed that they often seem ›cut out of life …” „… figure of a literary text, according to Propp’s Morphology of the Folktale.3 Algirdas Julien Greimas has …”

Florian Deichl ›The Very Image of the Völsungs‹. The Killer in Wolf’s Clothing S. 215-239

„… Heroic Literature Heroic literature does not operate in categories of ›good‹ or ›evil‹ and its characters …” „… perform outstanding and unsurpassable heroic feats. Those deeds are at most not ›good‹ or ›bad‹ from a …” „… characters are described as shining and outstanding; in short, as heroic, who commit good and terrible deeds …”

Andreas Schmidt ›hinn versti maðr á ǫllum norðrlǫndum‹, or House of Cards in the Faroe Islands: Conceptualising the ›Bad Guys‹ in Færeyinga saga S. 273-316

„… 1 I use the word ›bad‹ as denoting the characteristics of a literary figure (i.e. the ones of the …” „… positive figure of the two. Therefore I will concentrate my analysis on the figure of Þrándr in the …” „… . ›Bright‹ heroes are modelled on the image of the medieval knight or classical Greek figures like Achilles …”

Rebecca Merkelbach Engi maðr skapar sik sjálfr: Fathers, Abuse and Monstrosity in the Outlaw Sagas S. 59-93

„… paternal authority figure shows Grettir respect, he does not feel the need to disobey. This is clearly …” „… Þorbjǫrg and – to some degree – Vermundr also show that, as long as an authority figure acknowledges …” „… / stofnast styrjar efni‹,110 and later crediting Þorbjǫrn with Gísli’s heroic deeds: ›þá gaf sinum sveini …”

Joanne Shortt Butler The Best of a Bad Bunch? Hrafnkels saga and Narrative Expectations S. 317-355

„… 9 Shortt Butler 2016; this figure excludes characters introduced with the phrase þótti mǫnnum hann …” „… first said to be promising and then we see how this promise emerges in the figure of a fervent …” „… « interpretation22). Both are false assumptions: Hrafnkell is clearly a more nuanced figure than many typical …”

Franziska Groß ›Þá veiztu ekki til‹ – Disregarded Dream Interpreters in Íslendingasǫgur S. 172-197

„… right, being an excellent example of a wise foster mother, a type of figure that plays a very important …” „… role in Íslendingasǫgur.11 These figures are often characterised as experienced, wise and, sometimes …” „… it on what appears to be an Icelandic figure of speech by answering with a snide remark, saying that …”

Marion Poilvez Those Who Kill: Wrong Undone in the Sagas of Icelanders S. 21-58

„… Yet in this instance, we are again facing ambiguity. Grettir sterki, being the kind of cultural figure …” „… figures, and transfer of responsibility for some of their characters’ actions? First, the examples …” „… themselves. And I think this is where our liking and our admiration for these figures can partly happen, and …”

Jamie Cochrane ›…svá sloegr maðr sem þú ert kallaðr‹: Mǫrðr Valgarðsson, A Monster and His Critics S. 116-143

„… generations (twelve including Valgarðr himself), back to heroic, royal and legendary figures such as King …” „… Vésteinn Ólason talks of a »deep rooted malevolence«9 and suggests that: »The saga needs such a figure to …”

Yoav Tirosh Argr Management: Vilifying Guðmundr inn ríki in Ljósvetninga saga S. 240-272

„… . But what is important is that most representations of Guðmundr inn ríki the ›public figure‹,18 even …” „… , Gréttir’s brother, un-heroic or ›unmanly‹ by Old Norse standards. But unlike Atli, Rindill does not get the …” „… : The ›Historical Figure‹ in the Medieval Sagas, a Case Study«, in: Viator 45, pp. 101–124. Ármann …”

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