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This paper analyzes the symmetries and asymmetries that contribute to the construction of the characters in the novel Soldados de Salamina to observe if the symmetric or asymmetric constructions reveal the author's position with respect to the figure of the hero. For that aim, the concept of symmetry in a narrative context is first defined. Then, the symmetries and variations corresponding to two different levels of analysis are studied, referring, on the one hand, to the structure of the work and, on the other, to the characters. The analysis carried out reveals that structural symmetry --or asymmetry-- constitutes in this work a subtle, but effective technique for the construction of the hero, which is anchored in the anonymous, in what remains hidden or lost forever. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Advertising discourses are conceived as processes of production of meaning and symbolic significance that establish socially and culturally. The objectives of our study are based on interpreting the latent mythical foundations that are present in the discursive representation evoked by the Nike corporation. The methodology used is based on Norman Fairclough's critical discourse analysis and the multimodal discourse analysis approach. The conclusions corroborate that the sports celebrity acts as a cultural artifact that instrumentalizes the imaginary of the brand based on the social realities of our time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In his best-seller and adventure novel Sidi. An Account of the Frontier (2019), Arturo Pérez-Reverte recreates part of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar's first exile already portrayed in the first part of the Cantar de Mio Cid. This recreation aims to awake more interest in Spanish medieval history and to redress the Cid's image after its manipulation during Franco's times. The aim of this study is to analyze the heroic image of Cid in Pérez-Reverte's fiction--an image in line with that presented by historians--and the representation of violence and brutality among Christians and Muslims in the eleventh-century frontier world. Though war idealization may not be easily avoided in the biography of a legendary hero, Pérez-Reverte still provides a nuanced, critical representation of violence. However, his focus is laid on a different character, Diego Ordoñez rather than Rodrigo Díaz, who emerges as a bi-cultural heroe with powerful leadership skills--that is, a model of hero arguably more suitable for modern times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, I propose the concept of the frontier knight to define the heroic prototype that arises from the conversion of two concomitant narrative genres: the space-western and the epic or heroic fantasy. This concept is provided after the re-visitation of the frontier hero in the series The Mandalorian (Disney +, 2019-2020), according to some features of the medieval knight-errant concept. Given its ascription to the subgenus of space-western, the frontier hero archetype receives its outlaw status; However, thanks to the elements of epic fantasy that he inherits from his belonging to the Star Wars universe, the hero undergoes a gradual transformation in the unfolding of his mission that brings him closer to the knight errant. For this reason, the objective of this article is twofold: on the one hand, to categorize that heroic archetype that arose from the combination of two genres in narratives presents similarities through the figure of the outsider as the protagonist. On the other hand, for this purpose, a mixed methodology between semiotics and hermeneutics is explored in which the concepts of metaphorical displacement and relationship by similarity are applied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ideal of the wise, mythological king-hero, reflected in various texts, archaeological objects such as bronzes and recorded in iconographic media, responds to the presence and action of mythical civilizing and ordering personalities of the established world. First rulers, imagined in Neolithic times and the Bronze Age, are configured as virtuous, intellectual and moral models for Confucian orthodoxy, although they are also valued as deities that foster social differentiation and hierarchy from the Taoist philosophical perspective. The inventions and cultural achievements (agriculture, medicine, livestock, laws, calendars, cults) of these personalities with special powers and abilities, symbolize the beginning of historical times after the consolidation of certain tribes and clans that, after various encounters, will eventually centralize and unify the territory until it leads to the first Chinese empire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Science Fiction writers draw on mythical imaginary quite often, relying on ancient myths to construct new worlds in which the writer's ideological vision is portrayed in a symbolic way. The Chilean Elena Aldunate (1925-2005) is an example of such authors. In her novel Del cosmos las quieren vírgenes (1977), Aldunate masterfully combines several biblical and classical myths creating a hero narrative in which the saviour figure is a female character. This paper aims to study Aldunate's myth reinterpretation and how it allows her to transmit her views on one of the author's most important concerns: the role of women in our society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Plato's Phaedo aims to restore the reputation of Socrates by transforming him from a political scapegoat of Athens to a hero of the city who had put him to death. As scholars have shown, the dialogue's heroization of Socrates shares affinities with the religious tradition of the hero cult (see White, 2000; Nagy, 2015). In this article I argue that the conceptualization of the philosopher as a cult hero is developed further in the Republic and the Laws. The Republic presents Socrates as the "oikist" of the ideal polis, who makes religious decisions under the authority of god Apollo. In the same vein, the distinguished classes of the philosopher-rulers in the Republic and of the auditors in the Laws are compared to another group also subsumed under the category of cult-heroes, the victorious Olympic athletes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research presents an analysis of the dialog between parody and irony, as a gender and a literary modality respectively, through its subversion function in the "Seventh book (Journey the dark city of Cacodelphia)" of the novel Adán Buenosayres by the argentinean writer Leopoldo Marechal. This study starts with an introductory approach to the general context of the novel, where narrative structure, the positioning of the modern man as the hero of the 20th century are discussed, along with the implicit parody in the "Journey to the dark city of Cacodelphia" and its predominant irony, both as subversive elements of transgression of the represented literary canon, in this case by the "Hell" of the Divine comedy by Dante Alighieri. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the mental processes of authoritarians. Firstly, we explore these processes from the perspective of the type of metaphors authoritarians embody; we understand those metaphors as a conceptual framework that configurates human thought. This framework is understood as social constructs which are incorporated in the individual as a social being. We inquire about some frameworks to which the authoritarian thought appeals. One of them is the framework of the family, and the father as the main figure, which explains hierarchical relations. Another one is the friend-enemy dualism: through this, authoritarian identity establishes intersubjective relations that correspond to a Manichean vision of the world: friends are those who agree with the metaphors that the authoritarian embodies, enemies are the others. Thus, the authoritarian conceives him or herself as a hero, and so this figure (as a conceptual framework in and of itself) allows us to understand certain imaginaries and their relationship with a personal objective: such an objective ceases to be individual to be the goal of the collective, and the authoritarian person proclaims him or herself as the guarantor of its achievement. Finally, after studying frameworks as social constructs we proceed to inquire about the character of the authoritarian person as a symptom of a particular constitution of identity. Such a constitution reminds us of the figure of the successful psychopath, whose identity is shaped by inflexible agendas and an outlook on the world that even put his or her own integrity at risk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The general subject of this analysis is the presence of myths on social media, a heritage of the previous century's mass culture, and in particular, for social movements. Social movements within networked communication are particularly endowed with mythologies, which draw on mass culture and on societies' archetypal and psychological backgrounds. This fact justifies the hypothesis that the most effective and popular social movements resort to deeper mythological forms. The specific objective is to describe concrete myths in the language of digital social movements and to review the aspects of mythology in the scholarly literature on mythology from four fields. After tracing contents and impact, a qualitative analysis, focused on two examples justified by their digital origin, is performed: the "Anonymous" movement and "Je Suis Charlie" social mobilisation. Results show the persistence of two mythological motives: the profound hero's monomyth, playing an essential identifying role, channelled through social networks, with hashtags as slogans, and the related myth of the shadow, the dark, "Anonymous" and hybrid identity. Connections and analogies with other recent examples are discussed such as the "Me Too" and "Black Lives Matter" cases. The conclusion is the clear connection between these two myths and the communicative strength of social movements transmitted through social networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Although, like other Greek heroes, Hippolytus was not only a figure of myth, but also of cult, this relationship shows important discordant aspects. The aim of this paper is to clarify these aspects, focusing on three significant points of the tragic treatment (the events location, the name of the character, the hero’s relationship with the cult divinity,). With this we try to highlight that Hippolytus —an eminent cult figure in Troezen— was essentially a tragic hero in Athens, and to conclude the importance of an aspect remarked by Euripides in his Hippolytus (the only complete tragedy preserved): the tension and complementarity between Aphrodite and Artemis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The change in the education paradigm required by the information and knowledge society stems from the social-constructivist approach to learning. Although many authors have made contributions to the social-constructivist approach, its precision at the classroom level and especially its implications for the teacher profile are not yet clearly defined. Defining this profile might help teachers understand how they should be, what knowledge and skills they need, and how they can improve. This study aims to define the teacher profile for a social-constructivist education, integrating the different contributions by means of an analogy with the hero archetype. The proposed social-constructivist teacher profile matches the two main features of the hero: a high level of competence and moral action. This analogy might be useful for teachers not only to better understand the social-constructivist teacher profile, but also to make them more aware of their responsibility and power to improve education and society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses the so far unnoticed relation between Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote and the life and works of Spanish novelist Francisco Umbral. In spite of having written numerous texts on canonical Spanish authors, Umbral actually paid limited attention to Cervantes. The purpose of the paper is to establish the few yet significant affinities that Umbral expressed towards Cervantes and the main character of his novel. In order to demonstrate this complex link, the paper compares the character of Alonso Quijano to Umbral as a public figure himself. In both cases, there is a constant negotiation between fact and fiction, which leads us to problematize, according to Ian Watt, the concept of "myth" as a paradigm of modern individualism. The second part of the paper examines the metaphors of history that Umbral discovers throughout his reading of Don Quixote. Finally, the third section reflects on the similarities between Quijano and Umbral as both heroes and polemicists. Conclusions show that Umbral's interpretation is symptomatic of a shared perspective of Miguel de Cervantes' novel among late 20th century Spanish writers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected more than 200 countries and there are about 10 million registered cases worldwide. This health crisis is generated sudden changes throughout society, and containing the spread of infection required that citizens be confined in their homes. Consequently, governments designed hygiene measures and implemented immediate actions to safeguard the well-being of their population. The objective of this paper is to learn about the communication strategy used by the public health authorities in Mexico and in Spain in response to the COVID-19 health crisis, and thus to learn about the options for communication resources that can be used in a health emergency situation. The websites and official Twitter profiles of each organization are reviewed to determine what story they created and how they included the use of metaphors in their communication. The main finding is the need to build a message that generates an emotional connection with the audience, giving the necessary prominence to the citizen and taking into consideration the cultural context in which it is acted upon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the acclaimed TV series Games of Thrones, which belongs to the genre of epic fantasy, as well as the literary saga. Three of its most important constituents are addressed: the abduction of a woman (Lyanna Stark) as the war's motif, the epic hero (embodied by Jon Snow) and the violation of the sacred duty of hospitality (represented by the episodes of the Red Wedding and the Mutiny at Craster's Keep). Their impact on the plot is highlighted. Moreover, we analyze the common features this elements share with some Greek myths narrated or mentioned in different Graeco-Roman literary works, especially epic and tragic ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]