Heroic qualities
Abstract: In the course of heroization processes, heroizing communities often ascribe to heroic figures certain properties that either seemingly or actually characterise the figure as a hero or (help to) explain the figure’s hero status. We call these properties “heroic qualities”. Some of the categories of these qualities are physical (e.g. strength), moral and character-related (e.g. virtuousness, bravery), behavioural (e.g. a dominant or modest bearing), intellectual (e.g. wisdom, cunning) as well as affective and aesthetic (e.g. beauty, radiance). In some cases, these qualities can even be certain abilities (e.g. magical powers).
The heroizing effect of such qualitative attributions does not depend on whether they objectively describe the heroized figure, but whether the heroizing collective believes them to be true and accepts them as truthful statements about a hero. Those wanting to heroize a person have two basic argumentative approaches available to them: on the one hand, they can explain a figure’s hero status using the qualities that they are claiming the figure has. In this case, the ascribed qualities explain the heroization. (“She/he is brave and devoted and is a hero(ine) because of it.”) On the other hand, the heroizing parties can derive a figure’s characteristics from their hero status. In this case, the attributed qualities mark the figure as a hero and make a heroization plausible after the fact. (“She/he is a hero and is brave and devoted because of it.”)
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
- Ausgabe
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Version 1.0, published July 12 2023
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Englisch
- Klassifikation
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Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft
- Schlagwort
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Charakter
Persönlichkeit
Held
Heldenverehrung
Heroisierung
Heros
Typologie
Tugendheld
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Freiburg
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Universität
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2023
- Urheber
- Beteiligte Personen und Organisationen
- DOI
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10.6094/heroicum/hqe1.0.20230712
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-2380112
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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25.03.2025, 13:50 MEZ
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