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The European Journal of Humour Research, 2021 In the article we investigate the Christian – pagan polemic of Origen's treatise “Contra Celsum” in fragment 7.53-58, where the problem of the correlation of irony and heroism reveals the contrast between false and true deeds, for which divine honours ...
Maksim Prikhodko
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We don’t need another hero, do we? Researching heroism from a cultural perspective
Akademisk Kvarter, 2020 This article addresses different aspects of heroes and heroism and it offers an introductory analysis of approaches to heroism, which may be relevant for the articles in this issue of Academic Quarter.
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RUDN journal of Sociology, 2023 Despite an extensive list of the well-described aspects of heroism, this phenomenon is still understudied in sociology. Most of the projects and publications focus on identifying ‘heroes’ in public opinion or media discourse rather than on explaining why
I. V. Trotsuk, M. V. Subbotina
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Three questions to start the sociological study of heroism
RUDN journal of Sociology, 2021 Despite the understandable and predictable lack of sociological interest in the issues related to heroism, the search for clear and unambiguous conceptual and empirical definitions of the hero in the contemporary society seems to be a relevant ...
I. V. Trotsuk, M. V. Subbotina
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Nursing heroism in the 21st Century'
BMC Nursing, 2011 Background The Vivian Bullwinkel Oration honours the life and work of an extraordinary nurse. Given her story and that of her World War II colleagues, the topic of nursing heroism in the 21st century could not be more germane.
Darbyshire Philip
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"The prince of all the rookies :" remaking working class masculinity and heroism in Traffic in Souls [PDF]
, 2015 textThis paper seeks to explore the role evolving masculinities played in the Progressive Era's white slavery panic through one of the period's most popular films: George Loane Tucker's Traffic in Souls and its ensuing novelization by Eustace Hale Ball ...
Cotter, Erin June
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Rare and Costly Prosocial Behaviors Are Perceived as Heroic
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Heroism has only recently become a topic of empirical investigation. Existing research suggests a connection between heroism and four well-documented dimensions of human social behavior: (1) the cost incurred by the actor; (2) the benefit provided to the
Gordon T. Kraft-Todd, David G. Rand
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Une illusion de joie dans beaucoup de souffrances : en finir avec la « fête épique »
Revue des Langues Romanes, 2022 This paper is intended to challenge the well-established idea that the “chanson de geste” would celebrate the war in the form of a joyous melee in which the pleasure of killing would be accompanied by search for glory: the critic was thus able to speak ...
Philippe Haugeard
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Hermeneutics of (sport) heroism [PDF]
, 2015 The work is based on an interpretation of heroism and its specific forms in comparison with the possible heroism of sports. The first part discusses the definition of heroism and then we acquaint with selected concepts of heroism (Campbell's conception ...
Oborný, Josef, Štaud, Ondřej
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The man’s courage and valour in the biblical and contemporary times [PDF]
Scientific Journal of the Military University of Land Forces, 2018 The article attempts to analyse and interpret the man’s behaviour (actions) in different situations of threat and in different historical epochs.
Ryszard Kałużny
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