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anti-hero
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an·ti·he·ro also an·ti-he·ro  (nt-hîr, nt-)
n. pl. an·ti·he·roes also an·ti-he·roes
A main character in a dramatic or narrative work who is characterized by a lack of traditional heroic qualities, such as idealism or courage.

anti·her·oic (-h-rk) adj.
anti·hero·ism (-hr-zm) n.
Translations
anti-hero [ˈæntɪˌhɪərəʊ] N (antiheroes (pl)) → antihéroe m


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She explores how the heroic and the anti-heroic served as tools of partisan propaganda at moments of political crisis: the Restoration, the Exclusion Crisis, the Glorious Revolution, the Hanoverian Succession, and the 1745 Jacobite rebellion.
Merz's otherworldly Untitled (Living Sculpture) (1966), a hovering multi-chambered sea anemone-like creature fabricated out of layers of aluminum foil presages Eva Hesse's floating webs, arte povera itself (circa 1967), post-minimal formlessness, feminism's anti-heroic posture, open systems, and the recent "unmonumental" trend.
This upper-middle class, super-literate milieu regularly provided the settings for his plays, such as The Common Pursuit, which follows the careers and disappointments of a group of overachieving graduates, and Butley, a play about a singularly anti-heroic English literature professor.
 
 
 
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