Flaubert lecteur de Montaigne by Philippe Jousset

“…Such a use does not preclude misunderstandings and projections, so that Montaigne was adopted by Flaubert to reconstitute the myth of a kind of ingenuousness. Furthermore, Montaigne proves to be a prose model, particularly in the freer style of his Correspondence.…”
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Los deslices de Cien años de soledad by Agustín Seguí

“…There are chronological problems (saveable or not as an expression of the hero’s myth) and others which derive from the combination of hyperboles with paradoxes, but a strange 15th century’s armour also attracts notice.…”
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The motifs of death and resurrection in Neil Gaiman’s works by Irina RAȚĂ

“… Renowned for his reliance on the rich literary tradition in the form of references to poetry, prose, and popular culture, Neil Gaiman reimagines and reinterprets sources from myth and traditional folklore and modern, contemporary folklore to meet his own ends and match new contexts. …”
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Dances with Westerns in Poland’s Borderlands by Piotr Skurowski

“…The analysis of selected films draws on the ideological and cultural context of film- and myth-making in Poland, and points to the larger patterns of domesticating the American mass culture repertoire in Europe.…”
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„Моя двойная жизнь” Сары Бернар в восприятии М. Цветаевой by Роман Войтехович

“…The book by Bernhardt is one of the pillars of Tsvetaeva’s autobiographical myth, including the image of the coffin in which Sarah was having a rest and anecdotes about this coffin. …”
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La crise écologique exige une révolution de l’économie des services by Jean Gadrey

“…It appears that the alleged immateriality of services in largely a myth. Consequently, the trend towards increased service-sector employment could possibly be affected or even reversed, as far as environmental externalities are internalized and agriculture and manufacturing reoriented on a nonproductiviste way. …”
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La crise écologique exige une révolution de l’économie des services by Jean Gadrey

“…It appears that the alleged immateriality of services in largely a myth. Consequently, the trend towards increased service-sector employment could possibly be affected or even reversed, as far as environmental externalities are internalized and agriculture and manufacturing reoriented on a nonproductiviste way. …”
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Song of Songs – Current trends in research by S. Fischer

“…Interpretation in the context of a myth seemed outdated, but it is also back. Southern African studies have contributed to these fields and to contextual studies. …”
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Faith, Politics and Eschatology in the Thought of Joseph Ratzinger by Tracey Rowland

“…Ratzinger emphasises that Christian faith destroyed the myth of the divine state and replaced it with a conception of the state governed by ‘the objectivity of reason’ and for Ratzinger ‘true human reason involves morality, which lives on God’s commandments’. …”
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“As we are mocked with art” (5.3.68): The Winter’s Tale comme anatomie de la réception by Pierre Iselin

“…This paper investigates the reception and the dramatic treatment of the Ovidian myth of Pygmalion in the context of the post-Reformation debate over idolatry, and aims to relate the use of complex language and the specific treatment of artefacts or works of art in the play.…”
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Immigrants italiens et frontière américaine : Pioneers ! Ο pioneers ! by Marie-Christine Michaud

“…They were pulled there by the myth of liberty, and also by job opportunities in mines, on the construction of the railroad and on farms. …”
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El siglo XX mexicano : la bola, la Revolución, la guerra civil by Miguel Rodriguez

“…Mexico’s 20th century is generally linked to the myth of the « Revolution » (term used by Luis Cabrera, since its beginnings in 1911). …”
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Les Routes de la soie. Entre réalités et imaginaires. by Peter Frankopan

“…The author, a specialist in the Silk Roads and global history, traces the history - between myth and reality - of these Roads, and evokes their importance for the Europeans themselves. …”
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Gestion intégrée des zones côtières: quatre illusions bien ancrées by Raphaël Billé

“…In this perspective, our paper highlights four deep-rooted ICZM illusions which draw on a naïve view of action and hamper ICZM implementation: the illusion that sitting together can solve any problem, the coastal manager myth, the community illusion and the positivist illusion.…”
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 « Le Crépuscule de la chevalerie » : le cycle arthurien de Rutland Boughton (1878-1960) et l’épopée nationale by Nadège Le Lan

“…The study focuses on the libretto, through both the adaptation of the national myth and the reference to Wagner.…”
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“We wove a web in childhood” Angria Revisited: A. S. Byatt’s The Game by Jane Silvey

“…Byatt takes the Brontë myth and uses it to reflect on the nature and power of the creative imagination. …”
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Sir Cloudesley Shovell, amiral de la Flotte britannique : engagement patriotique, sacrifice héroïque, mensonge historique by Hélène PALMA

“…This naval catastrophe, the worst in British history, became an opportunity to create a myth around the 1707 Siege of Toulon and turn Shovell into an iconic figure.…”
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Were It a New-Made World: Hawthorne, Melville and the Unmasking of America by Michael Broek

“…Utilizing Ernest Gellner and Benedict Anderson’s definition of “nationalism,” this article concerns American nationalism and aesthetics and argues that Hawthorne and Melville were among the first American imaginative writers to challenge the myth of American Exceptionalism in terms of their aesthetic operations, insofar as Hawthorne’s sense of ambiguity and Melville’s sense of multiple perspectives challenges the validity of any single monological narrative of national identity. …”
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Символы и мифы мемуаристики: „Мой лунный друг” Зинаиды Гиппиус by Ludmiła Łucewicz

“…Ludmila Lutsevich’s article “The Symbols and Myths of the Discipline that Studies Memoirs: My Moon Friend by Zinaida Gippius” mentions the characteristic feature of the Russian emigrational discipline that studies memoirs. …”
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Banalización de la violencia y usos políticos del culto a los « mártires » y « caídos » de la « Cruzada » en el primer franquismo by Jesús Alonso Carballés

“…This article analyses the memory devoted to the “martyrs” and “fallen soldiers” of the Spanish Civil War in the public space, based on the George L. Mosse’s “Myth of the war experience” category. The author studies the cult of the civilians and fallen soldiers as a distinguished example of the trivialization of war violence and its political uses during the early Francoism. …”
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