Subjects: “…Heroes.…”

Table of Contents: “…The Argonauts: How the centaur trained heroes on Pelion -- How Jason lost his sandal in Anauros -- How they built the ship Argo in Iolcos -- How the Argonauts sailed to Colchis -- How the Argonauts were driven into the unknown sea -- What was the end of the heroes -- Story III. …”

Table of Contents: “…Heroes in war and peace -- Captain John Smith and the Indians -- The Pilgrim fathers and the American way -- Poor Richard : the boy who made good -- The embattled farmers -- President Washington and Parson Weems -- Thomas Jefferson, the gentle radical -- Winning of the frontier : Boone, Crockett, and Johnny Appleseed -- Old Hickory -- Lincoln : the democrat as hero -- Lee : the aristocrat as hero -- General Grant and the gilded age -- The dime novel and Buffalo Bill -- Commoner and Rough Rider -- The Unknown Soldier : hero of the World War -- Gods from the machine : Edison, Ford, Lindbergh -- Champion of the New Deal -- How Americans choose their heroes.…”

Subjects: “…Heroes.…”

Table of Contents: “…Singing contest -- Aino and the queen of the lake -- What befel the oldest magician -- Wicked work of iron -- Forging of the Sampo -- Search for the three words -- Two suitors -- Wedding feast -- Slave's revenge -- Golden image -- Heroes meet Lemmin-kainen -- Uninvited guest -- Capture of the Sampo -- Destruction of the Sampo -- Last adventure.…”

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Prolegomenon : the romantic hero and the dialectical form -- Kierkegaard : the hero and the poet -- Brontë and Lermontov : the hero in and out of time -- Melville : the extended hero and expanded meditation -- Concluding unscientific postscript : the twilight of the hero and the meditative form.…”

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Subjects: “…Heroes -- Poetry.…”

Subjects: “…Heroes -- Biography.…”

Table of Contents: “…Comic butt and comic hero : conceptions of comedy -- Beggar man, king : Homer's Odysseus -- Jackanapes in the highest : the Aristophanic hero -- Bondservant and beast of burden : Plautine slave and Lucius the Ass -- Renegade vassal : Reynard the Fox -- Monarch of make-believe : Sir John Falstaff -- Aberrant hidalgo : Don Quixote -- Moral rake and masterful lackey : Tom Jones and Jacques the Fatalist -- Insouciant lover and insatiable stumblebums : Don Juan and Bouvard and Pecuchet -- Ulysses and Hermes in modern times : Leopold Bloom and Felix Krull -- Appendix : Ancient views of the Odyssey as tragedy and as comedy.…”

Table of Contents: “…The hero as event and problem -- The heroes of thought -- The influence of monarchs -- Social determinism: Hegel and Spencer -- Social determinism: orthodox Marxism -- The framework of heroic action -- "If" in history -- The contingent and the unforeseen -- The eventful man and the event-making man -- The Russian revolution: a test case -- The hero and democracy -- Law, freedom, and human action.…”

“…Yang, Gene Luen. Shadow hero.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Masked heroes --…”

“…Riordan, Rick. Heroes of Olympus ;…”

Table of Contents: “…Sophocles and Oedipus -- Hiketeia or Xenia -- Empalin or Empolin -- People and places -- Prophecy and curse -- The hero and the city.…”

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“…Sueño de los héroes.…”

Subjects: “…Heroes in literature.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Paradox of the Hesitant Hero --…”

“…Sobre héroes y tumbas.…”

Table of Contents: “…The hero from on high -- The heroic biography -- The framework of adventure -- The hero "speaks" -- Foils, fools, and antiheroes -- Tertium quid: aspects of liminality -- The final hero: beyond immortality.…”

Table of Contents: “…Violence, victims, and heroes in the antebellum slave narrative -- Prototypes in the antebellum novel -- Search for the hero, 1865-1900 : Black warrior, forgiving Christ -- The truth about lynchings, 1892-1922 : Harper, Hopkins, Griggs, and their contemporaries -- The limits of the hero : Chesnutt's Marrow of Tradition and Johnson's Autobiography of an ex-colored man -- Art and lynching : the Harlem Renaissance and the 1930s -- After World War II : lynching, history, and the source of identity -- RIchard Wright and Bigger Thomas : grace in damnation -- The rebel stirs : temporary insanity and creative riots -- The rise of the Black revolutionary : the making of an image -- The fall of the revolutionary : the image dismantled -- It ends in brotherhood : Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon.…”

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Subjects: “…Heroes -- Japan.…”

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Subjects: “…Heroes -- Juvenile fiction.…”

Subjects: “…Heroes -- Juvenile fiction.…”

Subjects: “…Heroes -- Juvenile fiction.…”

Subjects: “…Heroes…”

Subjects: “…Heroes -- Juvenile fiction.…”

Table of Contents: “…Nathan Hale--a wasted hero -- 9. Spy catching on the Hudson -- 10. Spy catchers extraordinary -- 11. …”

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Subjects: “…Comité de Madres de Héroes y Mártires. -- Matagalpa.…”

Subjects: “…Heroes -- Juvenile fiction.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Importance of social typing -- Popular American social types: Heroes -- Villains -- Fools -- The changing American character: Impressions of American heroes -- American anomic types -- Deterioration of the hero -- Mockery of the hero.…”

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