To Kill or Not to Kill: When Heroes Waver
Hudson Review, The › Vol. 57 Nbr. 3, October 2004
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Jarman reviews HESITANT HEREOS: Private Inhibition, Cultural Crisis by Theodore Ziolkowski.
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To Kill or Not to Kill: When Heroes Waver
To Kill or Not to Kill: When Heroes Waver
THE CIRCUMSPECT HERO WHO is THE SUBJECT of Theodore Ziolkowski's new book1 pauses before he acts for reasons that are always mysterious. Ziolkowski suspects that the moment of indecision represents a crisis when an entire society is poised for change-not a crisis for the fictional hero's society but for his author's. When Aeneas stops his sword before plunging it into the breast of the wounded and pleading Turnus, it is not the pleas of his opponent which bemuse the Prince of Troy, but the clash of a culture of revenge with one of pious orde...See the full content of this document
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