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A Hero’s Many FacesRaoul Wallenberg—A Hero’s Tale

A Hero’s Many Faces: Raoul Wallenberg—A Hero’s Tale [By working out what makes the Wallenberg narrative so suitable to be told as a hero’s tale, I simultaneously outline the story’s many dimensions, providing the general background for an understanding of the Wallenberg monuments. By doing so, the potential of Wallenberg’s story will become clear and explain why his narrative was and continues to be told and retold with variations, depending on which aspects of the hero story is relevant to the storyteller’s audience. In the process, I refer to scholars from various disciplines such as mythology, history, psychoanalysis, literature, social theory, and philosophy.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Hero’s Many FacesRaoul Wallenberg—A Hero’s Tale

Part of the The Holocaust and its Contexts Book Series
Schult, Tanja
Springer Journals — Nov 12, 2015
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009
ISBN
978-1-349-30796-8
Pages
51 –68
DOI
10.1057/9780230236998_5
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Abstract

[By working out what makes the Wallenberg narrative so suitable to be told as a hero’s tale, I simultaneously outline the story’s many dimensions, providing the general background for an understanding of the Wallenberg monuments. By doing so, the potential of Wallenberg’s story will become clear and explain why his narrative was and continues to be told and retold with variations, depending on which aspects of the hero story is relevant to the storyteller’s audience. In the process, I refer to scholars from various disciplines such as mythology, history, psychoanalysis, literature, social theory, and philosophy.]

Published: Nov 12, 2015

Keywords: Rescue Mission; Nobel Peace Prize; Popular Imagination; National Hero; Rescue Attempt

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