Paul Auster’s 4 3 2 1. Past Paradigms by I. B. Siegumfeldt

“…It would be far-fetched to argue that 4 3 2 1 forges a literary strategy, in which ‘myth’ and ‘the everyday’ converge, that is consonant with a new type of twenty-first century fiction which critics are currently at pains to define.…”
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Memória social da Batalha do Jenipapo: trilhas e enredos patrimoniais em Campo Maior (PI) by Maria Dione Carvalho de Moraes, Juliana Rodrigues Cavalcante

“…To this end, we approach the polyphonic and multiple work of social memory that takes place in the convergences and divergences between history, myth and tangible signs, as diffuse monuments, places of memory, in the city of Campo Maior (PI).…”
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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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Jean Daniel et « l’habit de lumière » : la figure du général de Gaulle dans Le Nouvel Observateur (1964-1970) by Alexis Lévrier

“…This article is devoted to the paradoxical role that Le Nouvel Observateur and its editor-in-chief played in the construction of a Gaullian myth between 1964 and 1970. This weekly newspaper was, however, partly built against General de Gaulle: the founder of the Fifth Republic therefore appeared in it, logically enough, as an increasingly rejected figure until his departure from power. …”
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The best science, the best science in Finnish – and English – or the best Finnish scientists? by David Hoffman, Thomas Babila Sama, Ahmad El-Massri, Mika Raunio, Marjaana Korhonen

“…This article confronts an ‘uncomfortable truth’ or myth concerning the operationalization of equity-based personnel policy and practice in a higher education system one would expect to find it: Finland, a country widely admired for its relative lack of social stratification. …”
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Peut-on traverser les Tumuc Humac ? Réflexions autour de la configuration historique et géographique de l’extrême sud de la Guyane by François-Michel Le Tourneau

“…They seem to correspond more to a myth, carrying several levels of interpretation at the same time. …”
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Une nouvelle approche du Morte d’Arthur de Malory au XXe siècle : la réécriture musicale de Lerner et Loewe by Justine Breton

“…The musical, which considerably contributed to the success of the Arthurian myth in the U.S., seems to be an abstract of the medieval sources, and highlights the universal love story through a prestigious cast.…”
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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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Processus de (re)territorialisation de l’héritage colonial by Romeo Carabelli

“…The Moroccan cities of Assilah and El Jadida are then presented as cases of the deliberate integration of heritage legacies -the built heritage of the Portuguese presence in the past- to support contemporary development that requires a historical existence and the ability to refer to a myth of the past. After questioning the appropriateness of imagining built heritage as a kind of actor able to catalyse the imaginary to interact with the surrounding space and society, the text sets out the two heritagization processes of these towns re-planned at the end of the twentieth century, recovering the archaeological sites with private and public strategies.…”
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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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La Mostra internazionale francescana ad Assisi del 1927 by Alessandro Paolo Lena

“…At the same time, as part of the centenary celebrations, the exhibition bore significant political significance in the framework of Fascist ideology’s efforts to promote the veneration of Francis of Assisi in order to convey and celebrate the myth of Italian nationality through the figure of the saint.…”
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Les savants et la sorcière by Eléonore Devevey, Jacob Lachat

“…The two articles we discuss are typical of a period during which the notion of myth, under the impetus of Lévi-Strauss’ work, permeated most disciplines and debates on the epistemology of the human sciences. …”
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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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Symbolic Motif on Sepehri’s Poems by Morteza Ghasemi

“…These symbols are extracted from three parts; nature, Zen-buddhism  and myth by which freshness and innovation are demonstrated in Sohrab Sepehri’s poem. …”
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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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Découverte d’une culture africaine et fantasmes d’un missionnaire. Le Dictionnaire français-kirundi du Père Van der Burgt (1903) entre ethnographie, exégèse biblique et orientalism... by Jean-Pierre Chrétien

“…The Burundese culture was thus trapped by this imagination born out of the European libraries and it was described as the result of degeneration, based on the myth of the curse of Ham.…”
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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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Un point de vue critique : La Finlande, vers un modèle éducatif néolibéral ? by Luc Leguérinel

“…But is the latter really as good as it pretends to be, or, on the contrary, is it not a myth of modern times? We shall try to answer this question in this article. …”
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