... to the depiction of British heroism and British sacrifice, in a process which also involves the incorporation of aspects of a stereotypically Indian character into an evolving ideal figure of British colonial rule, whose femininity makes it paradoxically impossible for her to be accorded a place in the male...

... but also reckless self-risk. Indeed, this non-conformity and wildness prove central to the pleasures of the genre and its construction of heroism, especially its Americanness. By the end of the films, however, the heroes appear reformed and the status quo restored. But the battles that are won...

...This chapter offers an analysis of heroic identity in the movie Centurion, focusing on the heroism of the Roman soldiers Virilus and Quintus Dias of the legendary Ninth Legion, traditionally considered to have disappeared in Roman Britain. Through an examination of their differing...

...This chapter discusses the complex representations of war heroism in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End and in May Sinclair’s four war novels: Tasker Jevons: The Real Story (1916), The Tree of Heaven (1917), The Romantic (1920...

... versus the effective heroism of Mustafa Kemal. Alexandria Arabic poetry Bayram al Tunisi Mahmud Booth Marilyn Britain colloquial language Egypt exile nationalism poetry politics and literature vernacular poetry Cachia Pierre heritage Hourani Albert Muntakhabat al Shabab Bayram al Tunisi...

... Dark Thirty 2012 Cheney Dick Obama Barack Hollywood American cinema 9/11 Film Media War on Terror Action film Bourne James Bond Heroism Masculinity The intrusions of September 11 broke the dead bolt on our protective myth, the illusion that we are masters of our own security, that our...

...This chapter analyses the extent to which 9/11 and the military interventions and political ramifications that followed have affected recent action cinema. Beginning with a discussion of the way in which concepts of heroism and justified retribution were renewed and subsequently problematised...

... heroism. This chapter traces the tension between optimism and pessimism, celebration and cultural mourning that manifests itself in three strongly contrasting films of the immediate postwar period: Great Expectations (1946), Scott of the Antarctic (1948...

...This chapter considers the early novels of James Fenimore Cooper. One of these is The Spy, which features problems of wartime heroism and creates a dialectical relationship between the mercenary and the spy. The chapter notes that the characters help develop models of private...

... and towards the courage of the victim – corresponds to a wider shift that Mary Beth Rose has identified in the construction and gendering of heroism in the early modern period, in which there is a move away from the heroics of action towards the heroism of endurance. The chapter maintains, however...

... Tobias Chronicles of the Canongate The Surgeon’s Daughter Novella India Scottish Orientalism Heroism At the outset of ‘The Two Drovers’ Croftangry had sought to leave behind the days of clanship and claymores in his Scottish writing, but the execution of Robin Oig had shown that to be impossible...

... into the psyche, creativity became heroism, and bards emerged as their own protagonists. This chapter analyzes variations on the classical template that were executed on either side of 1800 by poets major and minor, female and male, British and American. It shows how the convention of claiming the Muse’s favors...

... perception of the appeal and the dangers of music’s ‘generalised’ language; the novel also reflects on the relationship between music and heroism. Blissett William DiGaetani John Furness Raymond heroism and music Murray Rosalind mythology Peach Linden Wagner Richard Woolf Virginia De Quincey Thomas...

... that more typically applied to male characters of the ancient world, Xena represented a more complicated image of heroism for female characters. Such a representation laid the foundations for a number of later characters, such as Saxa in STARZ Spartacus (2010–13) and Starbuck...

... Erymanthian boar Ferguson Rebecca Hennie Aksel Iolaus Lernaean hydra McShane Ian Nemean lion Ritchie Reece Sewell Rufus Tydeus Garrani Ivo Mioni Fabrizio Pelias Heroism antiheroism Alexander the Great Perseus Hercules In memoriam Daniel J. Curley (1934–2016), who dreamed...

...This chapter addresses John Buchan's Prester John and Wilson Harris' The Palace of the Peacock. Among the themes, it touches on definitions of heroism; accounts of the journey; approaches to the exotic; the figure of the adventurer; and the locations of empire...

...Who or what is the soldier hero of World War II? One of the characteristic devices of British cinema in this period was an attempt to foster a democratic spirit. The hero became not only Everyman but also Everywoman. Moreover, heroism was no longer seen to be the preserve of the special individual...

... biography fame immortality heroism history obscurity poetry The pith of his phrases was that while fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. ¹ The above sentence from...

...The Sophoclean Philoctetes articulates a unique and personal type of heroism. Abandoned for years on an island, he suffers isolation and sickness, with no possibility of heroic action. Yet he construes his endurance in active terms: his survival is a heroic achievement, surpassing the deeds...

... Laurence soldiers Catholicism Protestantism Robinson Paul Shakespeare William Dekker Thomas A Larum for London or the siege of Antwerp Salgado Gamini Cahill Patricia Bate Jonathan Charney Maurice heroism Marlowe Christopher Neill Michael trauma post traumatic stress disorder Montaigne Michel...