The Hero Reloaded: The reinvention of the classical hero in contemporary mass media
Edited by Rosario López Gregoris and Cristóbal Macías Villalobos
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 23] 2020. xiv, 160 pp.
Cristóbal Macías Villalobos
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Subjects Theoretical literature & literary studies
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2020 The Videogame Hero in his Labyrinth: The Hero in Electronic Gaming The Hero Reloaded: The reinvention of the classical hero in contemporary mass media, López Gregoris, Rosario and Cristóbal Macías Villalobos (eds.), pp. 73–102 | Chapter
In this paper we analyze the main features of some of the most popular videogame characters in the recent years (that is to say, heroes, villains and antiheroes), compared to classical Greco-Roman heroes, after reflecting on the consequences of the fact that a videogame hero only comes to life as… read more