... was transformed from a completely unknown figure into a world-famous symbol of Holocaust-era heroism. It focuses on the transnational mechanisms that facilitated this transformation as well as on the divergent but often also complementary motives in three of the countries most involved in the commemoration: Japan...

... in the hands of those who polemicized against the pacifist view that Christians could never fight wars. Nicholson presented Vicars as the embodiment of heroic militarism and the masculine ideal. This portrayal would have not been alien to the reading public, steeped as it was in Carlylean notions of heroism...

... the conceptualization of security goods as contested commodities but also facilitate a reappraisal of the market for security. contested commodification heroism legitimation moral economy private security In this article, we take issue with this underlying assumption and carve out a new analytical space in which...

... in the First World War. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014. 400 pp., illus., £65.00. © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: [email protected] 2015 masculinity gender triage pain heroism intimacy agency kinship...

... integrate in our analysis of philosophical writings on heroism with current thinking about the institutional pluralism that characterises human service organisations. This integration is intended to expand the analytical frameworks used by those who consider action to correct the perceived harm caused...

... admiration for the elderly. Aging women Pensioner hotels Heroism Copyright 1986 by Two contemporary British novelists provide insight into the difficulties faced by aging women The Cerontological Society of America pensioners. Keith Colquhoun and Elizabeth...

...The Dark Side of Statius’ Achilleid: Epic Distorted. Julene Abad Del Vecchio, Oxford University Press. © Julene Abad Del Vecchio 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198895206.003.0003 The chapter continues to analyse Achilles’ emergent heroism in the Achilleid...

..., is the exploration of classical influences on Shakespeare, especially the influence of classical concepts of virtue and heroism. A key figure in such explorations has been Seneca. Previous discussions of constancy may have underestimated the ambiguity and complexity of the concept. In particular, by focusing...

... of heroes are more about the hero and less about the occasions that warrant heroism. A hero s incredible feats of courage, or strength, or steadfastness, her almost superhuman ability to risk everything for someone else s good, put the hero in the spotlight. It does not matter what stands in the way...

... to connect this way of being bound to the phenomenon of moral heroism. The connection is fruitful in both directions. Importing practical necessity into examinations of moral heroism can explain the special sense of bindingness moral heroes frequently express while preserving the status of heroic acts...

... understood as martyrdom. This chapter explores the deeper conceptual and ethical significance of tactical suicide missions within the context of more general issues about suicide, self-sacrifice, heroism, martyrdom, and other forms of self-caused death. What, exactly, accounts for the heightened moral...

... heroism and some cases of proto-SMs on the other are explored. It is shown that despite the diversity of their purposes, the modern progeny of SMs shares the same roots, which emerged during an extraordinarily violent period in Lebanon. Despite the rapid spread of SMs across the world since 1981...

... Faidit demonstrates such notions of locality, heroism, and imagination. Finally, Occitanians affirmed their allegiance to Christian theologies such as the Incarnation, and saw the failure to uphold one’s vows as warranting extreme acts of violence. These values are articulated in Latin versus...

... heteronormativity post socialism Macedonia RN work femininity homosexuality dance Gotovina Ante clothes fantasy marriage visit beauty homophobia post-war Croatia Homeland War Ante Gotovina symbolic geography masculinity gendered nationalism male warrior-heroism ex-generals biography...

... thriller. It considers how war films sought to establish not only the narrative of recent victory but also the image of heroism at the heart of Soviet postwar culture. Khrushchev Nikita Stalin Joseph war films audience discourse official film industry postwar Hutchings Stephen positive hero postwar...

... Soviet people, who in turn are typified as adult children who have attained political consciousness and consolidated their positive heroism through the course of the war. In this way, official and popular reception of The Fall of Berlin reached beyond the traditional cult imagery...

...Nationalism in the mid-1930s was a rising and clearly visible force in Chinese politics. A constructed image of heroism, tied inextricably to nationalism and set against a menacing invader, proved the catalyst for a sustained, solid discourse to emerge that did not recognize any ground between...

... 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...

... Poems – M 274 Fr600 Her Losses make our Gains ashamed M 727 Fr1602 Jackson Helen Hunt Lewes George Henry manuscripts religion Emily Dickinson Thomas Carlyle Elizabeth Barrett Browning George Eliot transatlantic celebrity heroism poetry publishing The Emily Dickinson Museum’s...

...This chapter looks into the biblical themes of heroism and hubris, mortality and immortality showcased in the latter chapters of Moby-Dick. It explains how the concept of hubris plays a key role in ancient Greek drama and denotes a moral flaw in the tragic hero. Similar...