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    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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    "Byronic hero" has come to epitomize many of Byron's characteristics, and indeed this type of character pervades his own work. The use of a Byronic hero...
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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Antihero (redirect from Anti hero)
    Nephew in the 18th century, and is also used more broadly to cover Byronic heroes as well, created by the English poet Lord Byron. Literary Romanticism...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • Wallflower (people) Alexithymia Avoidant personality disorder Autism Byronic hero "Neighbours describe bomb suspect as devout loner". The Times. 26 July...
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  • Jesse Mitchell, in Mythlore, compares Túrin both to the Byronic hero and to the absurd hero of Camus's The Myth of Sisyphus. Philip Vogel and Kenton...
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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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    "Napoleon" (1830), borrowed somewhat from Pushkin, but invariably featured a Byronic hero, an outcast and an avenger, standing firm and aloof against the world...
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    the Gothic novel in verse. These featured different variations of the "Byronic hero", and his own life contributed a further version. Scott meanwhile was...
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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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