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Revisiting the Traditional Virtues of the Hero

A Phenomenological Study of Wilfred Owen’s Disabled Soldier

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Virtues and Passions in Literature

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Micallef, B. (2008). Revisiting the Traditional Virtues of the Hero. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Virtues and Passions in Literature. Analecta Husserliana, vol 96. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6422-7_2

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