Camping it out in the Never Never: Subverting Hegemonic Masculinity in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Stephan Elliott, 1994) by Anne Le Guellec-Minel

“…Leaving behind the urban gay scene, the film subversively relocates two icons of queer culture, the drag queen and the transsexual, in the sublime landscapes of the Outback that have helped forge the Australian myth of heroic masculinity. Although this queering of the myth does not do away with the hostile stereotypes traditionally projected on women and other marginalized groups, it does bring out the camp quality of the Australian sublime.…”
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“Soaring Towards the Sun”: The Icarus Complex in Daphne Du Maurier’s The Flight of the Falcon by Helena Habibi

“…Her incessant re-working of the myth of Icarus finds its climax in her later novel, The Flight of the Falcon (1965), in which Aldo Donati dons Daedalus-like wings, then, “like Icarus, […] fl[ies] too near the sun” before plummeting to his death. …”
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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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Deconstrucţia canonului literar în critica actuală română şi sârbă by Mariana Dan

“…In Romania, Eugen Negrici, tries to ‘demystify’ a whole Romanian cultural background envisaging the fact that the specific historical, political and social facts were favourable for the process of myth formation. As myth is viewed as ideology and mentality, literature and literary critics are presented as its supportive factors. …”
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Du post-apocalyptique au posthumain by Anne-Sophie Hillard

“…The Dims, enslaved by their masters, the Custai, and despised by the posthumans from Yasaka, keep telling the myth of the Night of Pulsars. According to them, the day will come when all the pulsar signals will turn off at the same time. …”
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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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Swoistość ludzkiej kultury - wampiryzm by Jacek Tomczyk, Anna Dygudaj

“…Every myth, regardless of its nature, refers back to some event placed in illio tempore. …”
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Ahmad Yasavï héros des nouvelles républiques centrasiatiques by Thierry Zarcone

“…My opinion is that since the 11th century, Ahmad Yasavi became a myth in Central Asia because of the lack of reliable documents about his real thinking. …”
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Mit, Ritüel ve Söz by Elmas Karakaş

“…Bunlardan biri de 2010 yılında Myth, Ritual and the Oral adıyla yayımlanan ve 2017 yılında DamlaSezgi tarafından Türkçeye kazandırılan Mit,Ritüel ve Söz isimli kitabıdır. …”
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La Révolution mexicaine dans les manuels scolaires français by Véronique Pugibet

“…The Revolution still appears as a myth in the 60s, but this image will fall apart little by little due to various reasons.…”
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Is Modern Monetary Theory a Real Solution for All US Economic Problems? by E. A. Chernysheva

“…Book review: Kelton S. 2020. The Deficit Myth. Sydney: McPhersons Printing Group. 325 p. ISBN 978-1-529-35253-5.…”
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La diversion comme genre : L’écriture et ses labyrinthes à l’époque élisabéthaine by Sophie Chiari-Lasserre

“…In the seventeenth century, poets started lamenting the gradual disappearance of these curves drawn on the grass. Still, the myth of the labyrinth was very pregnant in narrative, dramatic and poetic fictions. …”
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COLLAPSE TECTOLOGY AND MODERNITY by Elena V. Sukhanova, Natalia S. Shilovskaya, Dmitry A. Skorodumov

“…K. Tsiolkovsky's myth about the constant increase of joy in intelligent matter due to the progressive development of the world has been criticized - the amount of intelligent matter has increased, but the overall share of "suffering" has increased. …”
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From Bestial to Human: Neo-Mythological Reinterpretations of the Image of Delilah in Russian Literature at the Turn of the 20th-21st Centuries by Nataļja Šroma

“…The novelty of the article involves the introduction into the scientific context of a number of neo-mythological texts and the provided scholarly commentary, as well as the study of the poetics of the myth and neo-myth with an emphasis on the ethical aspect in the context of ideas of Dmitry Ovsyaniko-Kulikovsky. …”
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Diálogos asimétricos. Una propuesta de análisis de la imagen romántica de España by Xavier Andreu-Miralles

“…It synthetically presents some results of applying these perspectives for the study of the “romantic myth” of Spain and its relevance for the understanding of Spanish nation-building process.…”
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Haggard’s Questioning of the Heroic by John Coates

“…Rider Haggard is sometimes thought of as a writer who offered thrilling incidents, racial stereotypes and imperialist propaganda, or as a naïve myth-maker, unlocking his subconscious and reaching out to ours. …”
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Faire compter les machines by Cléo Collomb

“…It was formulated some 20 years ago to deconstruct the advertising rhetoric of interactivity and the myth of the “human machine” by looking at the textual mediations that allow texts to be displayed on screens. …”
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Ruski mir by Dymitr Romanowski

“… RUSSKI MIR: IDEA, IDEOLOGY, MYTH The article analyses the phenomenon of the “Russian World”. …”
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