EAN: 9783861105947

HELDEN ÜBER GRENZEN KARTONIERT (TB)

What are heroes? How are they commemorated? And how can heroes be conveyed across cultural 
historical  geographical  or political borders? These are the questions the collective volume
is asking  by analyzing the genesis of hero models and their impartation over different types
of boundaries. The articles orientate themselves towards a common thesis on the development of
these processes that still leaves room for the individual forms of the heroes' conveyance. The
volume sets out three conceptions of hero mediation: While the Italian national hero Giuseppe
Garibaldi crossed physical boarders multiple times as a travelling guerilla fighter and thereby
prompted his own reception over boundaries  the idea of Johannes Gutenberg as the model for an
inventor hero for example  was only created after his death and diachronically. Astronauts in
the 20th century on the other hand equally crossed boarders with their own body as heroes in
the laboratory  leading to the synchronic conceptualization of their myth on both sides of the
Iron Curtain. The volume questions the suggested clarity of hero phenomena in the common
language usage and searches for similar patterns within the adaptation processes of the hero 
who is separated from his historical origin.

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