MITAS – ARCHAJINIS NAIVUS MOKSLAS AR GYVENIMO VEIKSNYS? by Saulius Stelmokas

“…Science has replaced myth in our life, taking myth’s place. Irrespective of this science opinion, myth is working in our world like it was working in our ancestors life. …”
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Los límites de la humanidad. El mito de los ch’ullpa en Marcapata (Quispicanchi), Perú by Pablo F. Sendón

“…The limits of humanity. The myth of the ch’ullpa in Marcapata (Quispicanchi), Peru. …”
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Korutanský nastolovací obřad a přemyslovský mýtus by Michal Téra

“…Another aim is to point out the connection between Carinthian setting ritual and a legend (or myth) about the origin of princely power in Bohemia where a similar ritual, apparently inspired by this myth, was proved in the early modern period. …”
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Apollo in the North: Transmutations of the Sun God in Walter Pater’s Imaginary Portraits by Lene Østermark-Johansen

“…Walter Pater’s fascination with the Hyperborean Apollo, who according to myth resided north of the home of the northern wind, is explored in two of his pieces of short fiction, ‘Duke Carl of Rosenmold’ (1887) and ‘Apollo in Picardy’ (1893). …”
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Mit „muzykalnego Wiednia” w twórczości krytycznomuzycznej Stefanii Łobaczewskiej by Magdalena Dziadek

“… This paper presents a body of press sources relating to the influence of the myth of ‘musical Vienna’ on Stefania Łobaczewska’s critical writings on music. …”
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Tunupa en Marcapata: las andanzas de San Francisco de Asís y su acólito Phuyutarki en el sur peruano by Pablo F. Sendón

“…This paper presents and discusses four versions of a myth recorded in the district of Marcapata (Quispicanchi, Cuzco, Peru). …”
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„Symbole geben zu denken”? Theoretische und didaktische Überlegungen zur Reflexionsphilosophie Paul Ricoeurs by Marcin Morawski

“… Current thinking is strongly oriented towards the logos and sees the need for demythologizing. The myth seems to belong to past forms of consciousness that belong to a "naive" worldview. …”
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The Dweller on the Threshold: Whiteness, the Family and the End of Classical Cinema by Conall Cash

“…Once whiteness and the family become explicit objects of protection, the myth of their naturalness and goodness is rendered problematic, and in these films, the protector themselves must be excluded in order for the myth to function. …”
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Lengua y artefactos en la etnografía wichí de Alfred Métraux by Rodrigo Montani

“…Finally, the importance of this « new » version of the myth is briefly discussed.…”
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Faire voir l'Orient : réflexion sur un artifice victorien by Laurent Bury

“…As part of the Western construction of an Eastern myth, painting was very soon mobilized to support written texts, so as to offer images which now appear to be more informative on their creators (and on their audiences) than on the realities they claimed to document. …”
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De l’Antiquité à la science-fiction : la réinvention de Babylone dans les représentations artistiques occidentales des xxe et xxie siècles by Ariane Aujoulat

“…From an ancient Eastern city, Babylon became a contemporary Western megalopolis and the myth of Babel was the object of a total inversion of values: from nostalgia for the cohesion through language to the fear of having a unique language imposed on oneself and losing all individuality. …”
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La reescritura prismática del orfismo y sus dimensiones en la poesía de Carles Riba, Agustí Bartra y Josep Sebastià Pons by Marta López Vilar

“…Josep Sebastià Pons, on the other hand, expounds Orphism as a myth of mourning, memory and love as metaphysical knowledge in his posthumous Faula d’Orfeu (1966). …”
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SEXY CHINKIES IN INDIAN CITIES: CAN WE EMBRACE A SLANT-EYED MARY? by I. Aye

“…It asks how Mary, if she were slant-eyed, negotiated the humiliation and discrimination of race and gender, and how the figure of Mary can help challenge the public myth and offer a site of resistance for north-eastern women, many of whom are Christian. …”
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De los candires a Kandire. La invención de un mito chiriguano by Isabelle Combès

“…The invention of a Chiriguano myth. This paper examines the contradiction between the current use of the term « Kandire » and what the 16th century sources – which are the only ones that actually mention the word – can teach us about it. …”
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O Desvelamento do Mito Arturiano by Edileide Brito

“…To rigour, the literature uses mythological materials like straight source of events and historical characters, in which the history is deformed by popular imagination, where it draws on the myth a profile like concretization of a Utopia, the fact of literary work to be a sort of concrete Utopia keeps alive the hope and the ideal. …”
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Police/Militia in (Post-)Soviet Popular Culture (Towards a Historical Iconography of Power) by D. V. Popov

“…From constructing the myth of cooperation between the government and the population, militia cinema moves on to deconstructing the myth, achieving an effect of denigration. …”
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Polariser l'écart : la mise en scène du décalage dans Fram de Tony Harrison by Catherine Lanone

“…Harrison revisits the Arctic myth, debunking heroic codes, yet using the Arctic as a fitting metaphor to raise historical and contemporary ethical questions, leading from the tragic mask to the Fram, an emblem of tolerance and survival.…”
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PSYCHOTHERAPY by Ileana-Pepita Stoica

“…Psychosocial rehabilitation: a myth or a legitimate field in modern psychiatry?…”
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Kosovo and Metohija or the European Union ‒ a rhetorical dilemma in the Serbian political discourse by Ksenija Marković, Marko Jovanović, Branka Matijević

“…As the loss of Kosovo has been de facto re-inflicted in recent years, the question should be raised as to how great an influence the Kosovo myth wields today. It is particularly interesting to consider the issue in the context of European integration and the fact that recognition of Kosovo and Metohija’s self-proclaimed independence is usually stated as an essential condition and a key obstacle to Serbia’s accession to the EU. …”
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The End of the Old France. <i>Book Review of ‘From Triumph to Disaster: Political and Military Defeat of France in 1940 and Its Origins’ by A.A. Vershinin and N.N. Naumova</i> by V. Sergienko-Soler

“…The authors debunk the popular myth that this defeat allegedly resulted from a shortage of military equipment. …”
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