Heroism as a global phenomenon in contemporary culture / / edited by Barbara Korte, Simon Wendt, Nicole Falkenhayner.

• Superior document: Routledge studies in cultural history
• TeilnehmendeR: Korte, Barbara, 1957-; Wendt, Simon,; Falkenhayner, Nicole, 1976-
• Place / Publishing House: London : : Routledge,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge studies in cultural history.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (258 pages).

Heroes and heroic discourse have gained new visibility in the twenty-first century. This is noted in recent research on the heroic, but it has been largely ignored that heroism is increasingly a global phenomenon both in terms of production and consumption. This edited collection aims to bridge this...