@article{GillmayrBucher2014, author = {Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher}, title = {A Hero Ensnared in Otherness? Literary Images of Samson.}, series = {Samson: Hero or Fool? The Many Faces of Samson (TBN 17)}, volume = {2014}, editor = {Erik Eynikel and Tobias Nicklas}, url = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0295-opus4-6544}, pages = {33 -- 51}, year = {2014}, abstract = {The biblical text shows Samson’s otherness as a multilayered picture. The literary adaptations of this story in the 20th century reduce this complexity and portray Samson as a more coherent other transferring Samson into the cultural boundaries of their own times. Thereby, Samson’s story is a continuous story of otherness. His portrait remains in between shame and honour, duty and emotion, patriotism and love and, subsequently, also between fool and hero.}, language = {en} }