The Modern Hercules: Images of the Hero from the Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century

The Modern Hercules: Images of the Hero from the Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Hercules, the Modern Man: an Introduction
Part 1: The Hero in Literature, Art and Politics
	Part 1.1: Nineteenth- to Twenty-first-century Literature
		1 Hercules among the Germans: from Winckelmann to Hölderlin
		2 Hercules among the Tractarians: Typological Reading in Isaac Williams' The Christian Scholar
		3 'And maybe in your case there wouldn't be a Herakles.': Herakles in C.P. Cavafy and Yannis Ritsos
		4 The Mirror of Greek Myth: James McAuley's 'The Hero and the Hydra'
		5 The Egg-headed Hero: Agatha Christie's The Labours of Hercules
		6 Hercules as Romantic Hero in Twenty-first-century Historical Fiction
	Part 1.2: A Hero for Children?
		7 Hercules in Children's Literature: a 'warts and all' Model of Masculinity?
		8 Demigod, God or Monster? Rick Riordan's Hercules
		9 The Incredible Hercules: Prince of Power
	Part 1.3: Political Discourse
		10 Whose Hero? Hercules and His Avatars in Political Discourse
		11 Reimagining Herakles: a Supporter of the Greek Revolution and a Defender of the Greek Crown
		12 Ο Ηρακλής πήρε το ρόπαλό του ('Herakles took up his club'): the Reception of Herakles in the Modern Greek Press
		13 A Coruña, Cidade Herculina: Hercules as Founder of Cities
		14 Exhibiting Maguire's Herakles: a Dialogue between Old and New Worlds
Part 2: From Image to Screen
	Part 2.1: Modes of Reception
		15 Herakles on Chesil Bank: The Archers, Disavowable Classics, and The Small Back Room
		16 'The Muscles of Hercules Beneath the Skin of Antinous': Mapping Herculean Stardom in Film Fan-Magazine Discourse
		17 Hercules 'Down-Under': Antipodean Experiences of the Hero's Machismo
	Part 2.3: Millenial Concerns
		18 The Mighty Hercules Cartoon Series in Conversation with Steve Reeve's Hercules and Some Societal Concerns of the Early 1960s
		19 Asterix as the New Hercules: The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (1976)
		20 Disney's Hercules in Context: Mouse-morality for Mini-heroes
		21 A Real American Hero: the Superhero-fication of Disney's Hercules
		22 The Transnational Convergence of Family Values, Computer-Generated Monsters, and Cleavage in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
	Part 2.3: Millenial Concerns
		23 The Labours of Hercules-Sama
		24 Hercules' Self-fashioning on Screen: Millennial Concerns and Political Dimensions
		25 'Through a Glass, Partly' Reflections of Hercules in Video Games: the Mythodiegesis of Depictions of Hercules in Video Games, and Their Groundings in Medium and Textual Requirements and Contexts
	Part 2.4: From Graphic Novel to Blockbuster Film
		26 'I Am Hercules' in 2014: Rebooting and Rationalizing a Modern Hero
		27 Warriors, Murderers, Savages: Violence in Steve Moore's Hercules: The Thracian Wars
		28 Sex and Gender, Race and Orientalism in Steve Moore's Hercules Comics
		29 How the Rock became Rockules: Dwayne Johnson's Star Text in Hercules (2014)
Index