Transformations of the American hero in the US media discourse by Svitlana Lyubymova

“…This paper outlines transformations of the American hero stereotype in the US media discourse in diachronic perspective. …”
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HOLLYWOOD SİNEMASINDA KAHRAMANIN DÖNÜŞÜMÜ: ROCKY BALBOA’NIN FİZİKSEL, PSİKOLOJİK, KÜLTÜREL VE İDEOLOJİK DEĞİŞİMİ by Gökhan Gültekin

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Becoming-evolutionary?: Animal Transformations in Kingsley’s Alton Locke by Ben Moore

“…Focusing on Chapter 36 of Charles Kingsley’s novel Alton Locke (1850), where the hero recounts a dream during which he undergoes a series of transformations into various animals, beginning at ‘the lowest point of created life’ as a madrepore or coral, and culminating with the early history of humanity, this article explores the relation between Kingsley’s text and Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of ‘becoming-animal’. …”
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Gavrilo Princip and street art: An example of ideological transformation by Lazarević-Radak Sanja

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Héros et criminels : la figure du peuple en lutte dans les débats d’amnistie de la question sociale sous la Troisième République by Stéphane Gacon

“…Sous la Troisième République, l’amnistie est classiquement utilisée pour régler les grandes crises civiles (boulangisme, affaire Dreyfus), mais elle devient de manière plus nouvelle un outil de régulation du conflit social à une époque où les grèves se multiplient, le monde du travail se transforme et la répression sociale s’intensifie. Pour des raisons pédagogiques liées à la naissance du syndicalisme et à l’organisation du socialisme, les campagnes d’amnistie, de plus en plus personnalisées, produisent, au risque de simplifier à l’extrême les enjeux de la lutte sociale, des héros et des martyrs, alors que les défenseurs de l’ordre dénoncent, dans la tradition renouvelée des « classes dangereuses » du premier xixe siècle, les violences d’un peuple « ensauvagé » et endoctriné par quelques « meneurs ».…”
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Les transformations d'un mythe d'origine L'exemple de Gengis Khan et de Tamerlan by Denise Aigle

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Genghis Khan in Folklore Legends of the Mongolian Peoples: Mythological Framework of Memory by Aleksand V. Isakov

“…It can be concluded that the memory of Genghis Khan in the folklore tradition of the Mongolian peoples was formed on the basis of traditional ideas about the first ancestors-demiurges — cultural heroes, which included the legendary ruler. Living in some “primordial time” and possessing a wonderful, atypical — as befits a mythological hero — biography, he masters, transforms and signifies the world around him, creates important cultural objects, performs actions that will later turn into customs and rituals, gives rise to modern ethnic groups and dynasties, in general — lays the foundations of the existing world order. …”
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A Comparative Analysis of Existentialism and Mysticism in Line with Jungian Individuation in Virginia Woolf’s and Iris Murdoch’s Selected Works by Aleyna Durmus

“…Murdoch’s philosophical framework, her insights into the mystical aspects of existence, Woolf’s narrative techniques, and the tracing of certain imageries existent in the novels lay the groundwork for tracing the “night sea journey” of the hero: a process of transformation of the individual from solipsistic standpoint to a broader, Platonic understanding of the world, the modern hero’s journey from existential fragmentation to mystical integration. …”
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L’Étrange cas de Coleman Silk, le Jewbird de The Human Stain de Philip Roth by Frédéric Dumas

“…He is a true tragic hero in a crypto-mythical environment and has a lot in common with Malamud’s Jewbird, which seems to have made its way into a cage at the local Audubon Society. …”
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‘How the guineas shone as they came pouring out of the dark leather mouths!’: Shades of Gold in George Eliot’s Silas Marner (1861) by Marie-Laure Massei-Chamayou

“…In this novella, gold is not merely the main dramatic thread that connects the parallel stories of Silas, Eppie and the Cass family, it also echoes mythical and Biblical narratives, such as the Book of Job, thereby lending itself to multiple interpretations: gold is, in turn, synonymous with a transgressive passion, an impure light or tainted matter which, as such, enables Silas’s successive transmutation, transformation and transfiguration, thereby partaking of the hero’s complex alchemical initiation and spiritual quest. …”
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Reading “Guillelme l’Amïable”: Hypertextuality and La Prise d’Orange by Lucas Wood

“…The Prise cultivates a somewhat anxious enjoyment of its subversion of epic norms by thematizing the “folly” of its protagonist, Guillelme, whose absurd impersonation of a courtly lover casts doubt upon his legitimacy as an epic hero and the Prise’s “authenticity” as a chanson de geste. …”
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Tehnici auctoriale de încriptare a simbolului infantil. Studiu de caz: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile by Cristina Deutsch

“…For Rousseau, the child is the equivalent of the good being, his evolution depending on education: a natural one in order not to be perverted by society. Rousseauʹs infant hero is essentially an orphan who will be eventually transformed into a rational adult only by the means of education coming from nature, stating that the right answers can be found only by the direct interaction with the uncorrupted environment. …”
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Cormac McCarthy’s Aesthet(h)ics of the “Canal-Rhizome” in Suttree by Marie-Agnès Gay

“…Close textual analysis reveals that, in parallel to his hero’s embracing of social liminality in rebellion to his father’s conservative value system based on law and order, McCarthy makes the ethical choice of “pass-words” over “order-words,” of transforming “compositions of order” into “components of passage,” a militant act of literary commitment. …”
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Her Heart Lies at the Feet of the Mother by Fiona Moolla

“…It does so by foregrounding the dissenting mother as obstruction to the union of the hero and heroine, against the backdrop of the unique status of the mother in Islam. …”
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CHIEF OBAFEMI AWOLOWO’S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND WELFARIST APPROACH TO STATECRAFT IN NIGERIA’S FIRST AND SECOND REPUBLIC by FRIDAY JOHN OGALEYE, GODWIN A. VAASEH

“…Awolowo a patriot and African hero was known for his contributions to knowledge, constitution-making, and the development of democracy in Nigeria and Africa at large. …”
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Misères et splendeurs d’un mendicant dans 'Le Seigneur vous le rendra' de Mahi Binebine by Mohamed Semlali

“…If the monstrous is here inseparable from the tale, it also inscribes the hero in a process of transformation made possible by intellectual (literature) and sentimental (love) learning. …”
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Imagist Novel’s Poetics: “Bid Me to Live” by H.D. by Yevheniya Chernokova

“…Aldington’s “Death of a Hero”. Narrative’s “vertical structure” (S. Friedman), typical for a lyric novel, focuses on the narrative-transformation of heroine at the moment of her deepest personal crisis both in the life of a woman and an artist against the catastrophic background of the First World War.    …”
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Striving for an Alternative World Order: The Journey of Cuban Anti-Imperialism from History to Modernity by A. Z. Arabadzhyan

“…Central to this ideological framework are the ideas of Cuban national hero José Martí, who articulated two core principles that later became structural components of Cuban anti-imperialism: resistance against oppression and the unification of regional countries in this struggle. …”
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Contemporary Hollywood Crime Film and the New Individualism by Luis M. García-Mainar

“…It explores the ways in which such conventions as crosscutting and suspense, the victim-hero of the thriller, or the trope of self-assertion through escape from the social space both articulate the New Individualism discourse and are transformed under its influence.…”
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Le statut de la sainteté dans les « religions politiques » by Yves Bizeul

“…“Political religions” transform holiness into self-sacrifice in the name of political action. …”
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