Transgressiveness
Heroes (and heroines) cross boundaries. They transgress them, thereby drawing attention to themselves and provoking social reactions. Strictly speaking, they cannot yet be called heroes during the act of crossing boundaries because they are only created through a process which begins with the transgression. In the approach discussed here, the focus is thus not on…
Heroization
Starting from the assumption that heroes and heroines do not simply exist, but that they are a product of social construction, the question arises as to the social, and in particular communicative and performative processes in which real or fictional figures are proclaimed heroes, represented as such in various media and become the focus of…