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    DATA AGAINST MYTHS: EVIDENCE FROM THE SURVEY OF PHD STUDENTS IN LEADING RUSSIAN UNIVERSITIES by I. A. Gruzdev, E. A. Terent'ev

    Published 2017-09-01
    “…The authors compare ideas of administrators and students about PhD education in modern Russia. Five "myths" which are commonly represented by the heads ofPhD programs are distinguished: (1) PhD students do not consider their PhD programs as educational; (2) significant number of PhD students enter University in order to get a draft determent or place in student dormitory; (3) PhD education is for those who want to be scholars; (4) the employment in his/her university is good for both: PhD student and university; (5) the employment hinders PhD education. …”
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    « Jules Crevaux, l’explorateur aux pieds nus ». Un mythe géographique amazonien by Emmanuel Lézy

    Published 2008-12-01
    “…The exploration of the countries of totemism and animism is described as a mental, intelectual activity based on the identification of the fundamental structures of the myths organising the knowledge of the world which has nothing to do with the necessary movement of the feet. …”
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    From the Road Movie to Wilderness Travel: The Quest for Adventure on the Road and the Myth of the Heroic Traveller by Pascale Argod

    Published 2018-12-01
    “…The aesthetics of the image, panoramic landscape and grandeur of nature are thought to be a legacy of the notions of ‘picturesqueness’ and the ‘pioneer front’, while the renewed myths of both the wandering hero (Benoliel, 2011) and the quest for a new world seem to have developed from the literary references of On the Road and the Beat Generation’s ‘Beat ethos’.…”
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    Les quatre éléments dans « Karain » de Joseph Conrad : du mythe au manque by Catherine Delmas

    Published 2010-06-01
    “…However Conrad subverts the opposition by casting light on the illusion and artificiality of the representation and deconstructing the orientalist myth. The four elements first highlight the motif of human illusions and contribute to the symbolic function of the East ; they also serve a literary topos by enhancing the tragic muthos which is then immediately deconstucted ; the orientalist mode of representation is also called into question by impressionism, conveyed by fragmentation and the relativity of the point of view. …”
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    Traditional Minangkabau disaster mitigation in the Semangko Fault in West Sumatra based on ecological site myths by Anwar Khairil, Khallifhatul Khanh Varhanno, Qurratu Ayuni Khanh Vitrya, Narny Yenny

    Published 2025-01-01
    “…This paper discusses traditional Minangkabau disaster mitigation based on the myths of Minangkabau ecological sites located in the Semangko Fault area in West Sumatra. …”
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    Behind the Myth: The Representation of the Crimean War in Nineteenth-century British Newspapers, Government Archives & Contemporary Records by Tri Tran

    Published 2007-12-01
    “…In the end prominent historians consider the Crimean war was in many aspects useless and costly; the argument of this paper is that painful historical truth came to be hidden in the depth of Britain’s national consciousness, behind a few comforting Victorian myths.…”
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