Tree Beings in Tibet: Contemporary Popular Concepts of klu and gnyan as a Result of Ecological Change by Jakub Kocurek

“…Gathered narratives and reappearing myth patterns are presented and discussed. The findings from the fieldwork are compared with the idea of tree beings found in ritual texts studied by Western scholars. …”
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Sur les ailes du vautour. Genre, violence et « résistance » dans un récit nahua de voyage à Chiknâujtipan, le monde des morts (Mexique) by Dominique Raby

“…This essay analyzes four versions of a contemporary Nahua Orpheus tale (Mexico), inherited from a pre-Hispanic myth and colonial exempla, to underline how the intersection of gender and economic occupation influences the message and morality given to the tale by the storytellers. …”
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Caliban’s Cave: Theatre’s Scandalous Ethics by Liza Kharoubi

“…This theatrical anamorphosis of the myth reveals a political-practical truth rather than a cognitive one. …”
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Des esclaves et des bêtes : fables de la sauvagerie en Amérique dans Letters from an American Farmer, de St John de Crèvecoeur by Agnès Derail-Imbert

“…While animal brutality invalidates the myth of a society of sympathy, it nevertheless frees the discourse from its subordination to such utopia, and allows the text to engage with the native figures of American savagery.…”
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Retour sur la révolte du bassin minier. Les cinq leçons politiques d’un conflit social inédit by Larbi Chouikha, Vincent Geisser

“…Secondly, the revolt in the mining area seriously compromised the myth of Tunisia as the “Dragon of Africa” with unemployment, job insecurity and corruption as the principal engines of protest. …”
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Les codes du factice dans Big Fish de Tim Burton by Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris

“…And as he’s sitting by the myth-maker’s bedside and as the credits unwind, the spectator is already steeped in the southern tall tale universe. …”
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“Uncle Vova, we are with you!” The use of childhood semantics in Russian political propaganda by Wojciech Siegień

“…The analysis proves that the semantics of the Russian propaganda message is based on patterns from previous eras with an invariant element – World War II, which is a kind of myth about the beginning of the Russian world. The war in Ukraine today additionally updates the meanings related to the armed conflict and patriotism. …”
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La sculpture sur le bout des doigts. Retour sur l’élaboration d’une salle pédagogique et tactile au musée Bourdelle by Colin Lemoine, Amélie Simier

“…Old photographs show Bourdelle’s workshop filled with collaborators that refute the myth of the solitary artist, working far away from everyone and everything. …”
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Servir le roi autour de 1300 by Philippe Josserand

“…Yet, it illustrates the possibility of a biographical seizure, the interest which would be that of such a research, and, beyond the myth, by linking the action of Guillaume de Nogaret in the French South and to the Capetian court, it reveals the main lines of an existence entirely dedicated to royal service and carried, to the point of brutality, by the obsession with the interest of the realm erected, in deeds and in thought, into a mystic then completely new, opening the way to the absolutism.…”
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La defensa de la especificidad española frente al advenimiento de la cultura liberal (1833-1839) by Laetitia Blanchard Rubio

“…This representation of a primitive people, very similar to the Myth of the Golden Era or the natural state theorized by Rousseau, can be found not only in carlist political propaganda, but also in the works of several liberal whose interest in the habits and customs of a society about to lose its values and references comes from their romantic culture.…”
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Revisiting Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus capucinus) and the Ancient Maya by Mary Baker

“…Michael Coe (1978, 1989) suggested that the Classic Maya (A.D. 300-900) associated these monkeys, especially howlers, with the arts exemplified in the Quiche Maya creation myth, the Popol Vuh, and in depictions of monkey‑men scribes on Late Classic (A.D. 550‑900) ceramics. …”
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The Roaring Streets: Dickensian London in the Pages of Virginia Woolf by Francesca Orestano

“…In Woolf’s fiction sounds are meant to convey symbolic meanings, to bring myth to the foreground, while also adding to the realism of the text. …”
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L’étrangeté d’une langue étrangère : (dé)familiariser l’expérience belge d’Emily Brontë by Augustin Trapenard

“…The story of Charlotte and Emily Brontë’s 1842 sojourn in Brussels is a topos of the « Brontë myth », and from 1850 onwards, in every biographical or critical study, the « Belgian experience » has been used as a privileged tool to read their lives and works. …”
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Wpływ nowożytnego antropocentryzmu na relację człowieka do przyrody. Część 2 by Anita Ganowicz-Bączyk

“…One can distinguish at least several stages of the process, which led to this crisis, namely: stage of Magic and Myth, Ancient Times, Middle Ages, and Modern Times. …”
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Le “Written Speech” yeatsien et ses expressions scéniques by Pierre Longuenesse

“…In a first period of his theatrical works, inspired by Irish legends, Yeats endorses the myth of an oral tradition of the Irish people, for which his theatre becomes the speaker. …”
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Du caboclo à l’indigène : réflexions sur l’ethnogenèse au Brésil by Florent Kohler

“…I am therefore attempting to inscribe this phenomenon of so-called « ethnogenesis » into its broader context of general reinterpretation of the past, which goes along with the collective elaboration of a pan-Indian myth of origins.…”
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„I Siegfried cítí zimu a vši…“ aneb Obrazy spojenců a nepřátel v paměti vojáků druhého čs. zahraničního odboje by Pavel Mücke

“…Finaly as result it could be stated that these symbolic images take very important part among another ones (e.g. influence of so-called „Munich Myth“, reception of „great“ political events, perception of „home and homeland“, or attitudes toward Czechoslovak army grounds and political elites) and they play a key role in the process of (re)creation of individual and collective memory and identity of ex-Czechoslovak combattants.…”
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Platelet-Rich Plasma Supplemented Revascularization of an Immature Tooth Associated with a Periapical Lesion in a 40-Year-Old Man by Ganesh Ranganath Jadhav, Naseem Shah, Ajay Logani

“…The present case report is the first of its kind that documents the successful outcome of “revascularization,” a regeneration-based treatment protocol in a mature adult patient. It belies the myth that “revascularization” should only be done in children and young, adolescent patients. …”
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Dancing Through Mythological Threads: Unraveling the Symbolism of Chechen Dance by Maysa Bakeer

“…By delving into the realms of myth and storytelling, Chechen dance gains a heightened sense of depth and appreciation, forging connections between the audience and the profound layers of symbolism, historical context, and spiritual essence embedded within the art form. …”
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‘The silent Arachnes that weave unrestingly in our Imagination’: The Industrial Metaphoric Web in Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus by Marie Laniel

“…In Book I, chapter 10 of Sartor Resartus (1833–34), Thomas Carlyle revisits the myth of Arachne and adapts Ovid’s tale to the industrial context: ‘Shall we tremble before clothwebs and cobwebs, whether woven in Arkwright looms, or by the silent Arachnes that weave unrestingly in our Imagination?’ …”
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