From sick old man to mythical hero by Sandra Pitcher, Tammy Frankland, Nicola Jones

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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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El héroe que todo lo aprendió en los libros by Félix de Azúa

“…Podría aducirse que afirmar tan sorprendente unidad es un juego literario, pero la intención de este artículo es poner de manifiesto la seriedad de semejante juego y sus notables consecuencias. …”
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Beyond EU Law Heroes: Unleashing Strategic Litigation as a Form of Participation in the Union’s Democratic Life by Alberto Alemanno

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TO THE BASICS OF MODERN POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: FREEDOM AND JUSTICE IN THE SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY OF T. HOBBES by L. A. Sytnichenko, D. V. Usov

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Adventurer in ranks of the secret services? To the biography of Pyotr Vasilyevich Glinko– Appin by D. I. Petin

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The Birth of a Nation (Nate Parker, 2016): The Tale of Nat Turner’s Rebellion by Delphine Letort

“…This essay examines the memories of slavery shaped by Nate Parker in The Birth of a Nation. It shows how Parker uses the biopic as a narrative frame to turn the slave rebel into a hero and analyzes the impact of the visuals over the construction of a historically controversial figure. …”
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An unwilling officer: the engineer Mikhail Vasilyevich Lebedev in the era of social cataclysms by D. I. Petin

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Lieutenant of the Russian Imperial Army Anatoly Petrovich Moser (1889–1943): the «little man» and his fate in mirror of military anthropology by D. I. Petin

“…The relevance of the work is seen in the fact that the life path of A.P. Moser is a small example of the relatively successful integration of a former officer in Soviet society. …”
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Foucault in Sulawesi: Challenging the Roots of Ethnic Discourse in South Sulawesi by Muh Adnan Malewa

“…Additionally, the 1609-1669 conflict is addressed, using Michel Foucault’s theory of power relations and knowledge. This research discovered how ethnic polarization occurred and offers possible corrections and additions to previous historians’ historical interpretations based more on national interests than historic facts. …”
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Les traces de Denis Papin dans la poussière de l’histoire by Maguire, Conor

“…In this, he stands in a long line of great minds throughout history who have strived to harness the power of steam to operate mechanical devices. This lineage includes Hero of Alexandria (born in 10 BC) who invented the aeolipile steam turbine around two thousand years ago, and even before him, Archimedes (born in 287 BC) who invented one of the earliest steam devices. …”
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Iconic Celebration of Charms and Friendship in Poetry: Fálétí’s “Adébímpé Ọ̀jẹ́dòkun” by Michael Oladejo Afoláyan

“…Anything less, would fail miserably for the hero to mourn the parting of his friend with honor. …”
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Du Bestiaire dans le théâtre de W.B. Yeats by Pierre Longuenesse

“…We must look back to Kleist and Craig to understand what is at stake with this « guardian of the well ». In fact, poet and dancer are fascinated by this particular bird because of the hawk’s power to surpass the hero, as the bear triumphs of the swordsman in Kleist’s On the marionnette theatre : in At the Hawk’s Well, the bird overcomes the man because it has a grace that the man will never find. …”
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Deja vu: Medieval Motifs in Modern Arab Political Life by V. V. Naumkin, V. A. Kuznetsov

“…ISIS, Al-Qaeda) and in the political strategies of moderate Islamist movements, such as Tunisian party Al-Nahda. …”
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The Freedom Fight: A Novel of Resistance and Freedom. A Translation by Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith of Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí’s Ọmọ Olókùn Ẹṣin by Michael Oladejo Afolayan

“… The story entailed in Ọmọ Olókùn Ẹṣin (The Freedom Fight) is straightforward. Àjàyí, the titular hero, starts off with the direct first-person narrative. …”
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La Saga de Camelia la Texana. La mujer en el narco y en el narcocorrido by Salvador Bernabéu Albert

“…In recent decades, women have become more present in the world of drug trafficking, coping with various functions within criminal organizations, despite not achieving high positions of power, armored by a strongly male chauvinist structure. …”
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The Crack in the Cornerstone: Victorian Identity Conflicts and the Representation of the Sepoy Mutiny in Metropolitan and Anglo-Indian Novels by Flaminia Nicora

“…Anglo-Indians resented the ambiguity of their double status of heroes and exploiters and often tried an ante litteram “writing back”. …”
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Observaciones sobre Kant y el Liberalismo by Jorge E. Dotti

“…Los puntos centrales son el sentido de la crítica kantiana al eudemonismo, la relación entre soberanía y propiedad, el carácter extra legal de la resistencia, la división pero no la balanza de poderes.…”
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Museographic narrating of dissonant heritage in Tianjin’s former international concessions by Maria Gravari-Barbas, Sandra Guinand, Yue Lu, Chensi Shen

“…Abstract Concessions—defined as the urban elements built by Western powers while ‘occupying’ various parts of the Chinese territory—have recently been granted heritage status by the Chinese national and local authorities. …”
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