From Hero to Superhero

Gómez, Luis Unceta

doi:10.1075/ivitra.23.c1

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Superheroes, war heroes, health care heroes

Sadow,

Cox

2024

Pragmatics &Amp; Beyond New Series

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In times of crisis, you can rely on a hero to save you. At least, that’s what English-language media would like you to think. The word hero is on an upward trend in English-language publications across the globe, tipping us into its discursive world at its every use. This paper proposes that hero is an Anglo cultural keyword which comes laden with its own discourses regarding courage, sacrifice, and saving lives. The 21st century has seen unprecedented media communication, at the same time as political, humanitarian, and health crises, changing our priorities and the ideals we look to (Porpora 1996; Schlenker et al. 2008). By examining the media use of hero narratives, we can see how this keyword is reflective of the current cultural landscape in different Anglo countries: whose lives we value, what actions are worthy, and who our ideal person is (Butler 2009). We use discourse analysis of written and recorded media, corpus data, and cultural semantics (Levisen and Waters 2017) to show the depth of meaning in the word hero and untangle the distinct public narratives between unsung heroes, war heroes, healthcare heroes, local heroes and sporting heroes.

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Superheroes, war heroes, health care heroes

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Cox

2024

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Lycanthropus adulescens: the classical element in MTV’s Teen Wolf (2011–17)

Martínez Jiménez

2023

Classical Receptions Journal

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The adaptation of elements of Greek and Roman myth and folklore is a recurrent aspect of late-twentieth- and early-twenty-first-century fiction on page and screen. These elements are usually presented alongside other mythologies and they, over all, serve to add depth and veracity to the world-building. This is no different in Teen Wolf, an MTV show that focused on Scott McCall’s journey through lycanthropy. However, in most modern fiction the Classical element is one of many sources used in in-story world-building. This paper will present the many examples of the use of Classical elements in Teen Wolf, including: the way the werewolves are presented as Lycaon’s descendants and with elements common to Roman versipelles, the way the Classical past (historic, folkloric, mythic) is included as part of the intradiegetic lore, and how the show itself is built following ancient epic patterns with Classical paradigms as points of reference.

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Texto e imagen en La cólera de Javier Olivares y Santiago García, o por qué la Ilíada sigue teniendo algo que decirnos

Gómez

2022

1616: Anuario de Literatura Comparada

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Este trabajo propone un análisis de la novela gráfica La cólera (2020) de Javier Olivares y Santiago García, en el que, desde la perspectiva de la Recepción Clásica, se atiende a las novedades que propone esta reescritura de la Ilíada. Esas novedades son especialmente llamativas en dos ámbitos: la identidad de género y sexual, y las desigualdades sociales. A través de la feminización del personaje de Aquiles que propone la obra, se aborda, por una parte, un cuestionamiento de los papeles de género tradicionales, la fluidez entre ambos y la problemática de la orientación sexual y, por otra, una denuncia de la injusticia social, que no solo afecta al género, sino también a otros parámetros sociales, como los factores económicos. El trabajo, por último, ilustra las ventajas que ofrece el análisis de obras recientes desde el punto de vista de la Recepción Clásica.

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From Hero to Superhero

Cited by 5 publications

References 56 publications

Superheroes, war heroes, health care heroes

Superheroes, war heroes, health care heroes

Lycanthropus adulescens: the classical element in MTV’s Teen Wolf (2011–17)

Texto e imagen en La cólera de Javier Olivares y Santiago García, o por qué la Ilíada sigue teniendo algo que decirnos

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