The Byronic hero is a variant of the Romantic hero as a type of character, named after the English Romantic poet Lord Byron. Historian and critic Lord...
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is an example of the superfluous man novel, noted for its compelling Byronic hero (or antihero) Pechorin and for the beautiful descriptions of the Caucasus...
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Lord Byron (section Byronic hero)
BLESSED AND EVER-TO-BE-REMEMBERED HERO!!!" published in BENGAL HURKARU, Calcutta, 21 October 1824. The Byronic hero presents an idealised, but flawed...
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (section The Byronic hero)
poem was widely imitated. It contributed to the cult of the wandering Byronic hero who falls into melancholic reverie as he contemplates scenes of natural...
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Edward Rochester (section Byronic hero)
novel's titular protagonist Jane Eyre. He is regarded as an archetypal Byronic hero. Edward Rochester is the oft-absent master of Thornfield Hall, where...
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gods and heroes ... who conquer by tapping every talent". Action hero Antihero Byronic hero Carnegie Hero Fund Culture hero Folk hero Germanic hero Helping...
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"knight-errant", particular to European medieval chivalric romance literature, and Byronic hero, especially in European Romanticism. Hubert Babinski, in a review of...
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"Satanic" school and developed the "Byronic hero" (not to be confused with Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Satanic Hero") who would, like Satan in Paradise...
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Heir of Redclyffe (1853) Anti-hero Byronic hero Gothic fiction List of fictional anti-heroes Romanticism Tragic flaw Epic hero Wilson, James D. (Winter 1972)...
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Edmond Dantès (pronounced [ɛd.mɔ̃ dɑ̃.tɛs]) is a title character, Byronic hero and the protagonist of Alexandre Dumas's 1844 adventure novel The Count...
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turn him into a Byronic hero: After ... Isabella elop[es] with him, he sneers that she did so "under a delusion ... picturing in me a hero of romance". "I...
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both him and those around him; in short, the Byronic hero. He is better known for being a romantic hero due to his youthful love for Catherine Earnshaw...
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a crisis when Wanda meets a man to whom she would like to submit, a Byronic hero known as Alexis Papadopolis. At the end of the book, Severin, humiliated...
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traditions, such as the comedy of manners, the Gothic tale, and the Byronic hero. The novel's language is a pastiche of 19th-century writing styles, such...
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travel the land and engage in duels along the way. Black knight Byronic hero Romantic hero Rōnin Suero de Quiñones As plural, knights-errant is most common...
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especially drawn to the tragic anti-hero character Satan, who became a model for many charismatic Gothic villains and Byronic heroes. Milton's "version of the myth...
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person") is an 1840s and 1850s Russian literary concept derived from the Byronic hero. It refers to a man, perhaps talented and capable, who does not fit into...
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Brando (referred to by Anger as Byron's "heroes", likely a direct reference to the trope of the Byronic hero). The film premiered on October 29, 1963...
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predominate.[citation needed] Anger – Intense hostile emotional state of mind Byronic hero – Type of antihero often characterized by isolation and contemplation...
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Retrieved 2023-11-17. spectralvisions (2017-02-22). "The contemporary Byronic hero with reference to the character of James Keziah Delaney in the historical...
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sense of humor Single Usually the eldest or an only child Bad speller Byronic hero Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou English Eccentrics and Eccentricities Foolishness...
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painted as a war hero who turns traitor against Irish nationalism. The book was notable for featuring the first version of the Byronic hero outside of Byron's...
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political blog Daily Kos states Jack "can certainly be characterised as a Byronic hero, a tragic figure with a streak of melancholy, heroic yet misunderstood...
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College. 27 Jan. 2007. Paolucci, Anne. "Dante's Satan and Milton's "Byronic Hero"" Italica 41 (1965): 139-149. "Satan: an Instrument for Dante and Milton...
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has "charm", both literally and figuratively. He is modelled on the Byronic hero. Calcifer is Howl's resident fire-demon. As the result of a mysterious...
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Heights, and Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre, who display the traits of a Byronic hero. Numerous other works left their mark on the Brontës—the Thousand and...
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fatale), and Conrad of Montferrat, whom she depicts as a flawed, tragic Byronic hero, in contrast with the unequivocally hostile treatment by her contemporary...
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fictional character was born named the "Byronic hero", who is known to be rebellious in character. The Byronic hero "pervades much of his work" and Byron...
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Wallflower (people) Alexithymia Avoidant personality disorder Autism Byronic hero "Neighbours describe bomb suspect as devout loner". The Times. 26 July...
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