Kaffeehausliteraten und Exilliteratur im Kontext von Marc Augés Pariser Bistro: Kracauer, Roth und Kesten by Jan T. Schlosser

“…In the other three Roth-texts and in Kracauer’s texts the myth of the literature café cultivated by Marc Augé is destroyed. …”
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(Un)homely Dwellings: The Usher House and the Collyer Mansion by Theodora Tsimpouki

“…In Doctorow’s novel, the Collyer brothers are not the obsessed hoarders or the models of American consumerism par excellence, as the urban myth describes them. On the contrary, they become paradigms of dwelling with alertness in the Heideggerian sense, the embodiment of an escapist mentality in a culture driven by mundane prosperity and social compliance.…”
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Les Arméniens communistes en France, une histoire oubliée by Astrig Atamian

“…Armenians themselves, anxious not to revive past conflicts, and to offer the powers to be a single interlocutor, have given in to this “myth of unity”. But wouldn’t one be tempted to see, in this oblivion of the role of Communists, the fate reserved to the “defeated”, those who during decades where hostile to the independence of Armenia?…”
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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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Reiteration of Jane Eyre's Search for the Feminine Subject in Atkinson's Crime Novels by Esra Melikoğlu

“…Atkinson, it will be argued, signals that the contemporary literary female investigator and ultimately today’s women relive the gothic heroine’s dilemma: Susceptible to the myth of romantic love, they abort their feminist mission and collude with patriarchy’s obliteration of the feminine subject. …”
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Archetype of transformation in The Legend of Sleepers by Danilo Kiš by Drakulić-Kozić Nataša S.

“…The research results indicate that the author reinterprets the myth and questions the sources he relies on because he treats them with irony.…”
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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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Sisyphe à Mexico : risques et politiques urbaines by François Mancebo

“…In much the same way as in Sisyphus myth, mexican planners and developers try hard to take the risk-boulder up the unsustainable-slope, but the boulder always comes down, again and again. …”
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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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The sounds of early eighteenth-century pastoral: Handel, Pope, Gay, and Hughes by Jeffrey HOPES

“…Handel composed two works on the myth of Acis, Galatea and Polyphemus, the first (Aci, Galatea et Polifemo) before he left Italy, in 1708, the second (Acis and Galatea) when he was in residence at Cannons, the London house of James Brydges, Earl of Carnarvon, in 1718. …”
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Wilno mityczne we współczesnej prozie litewskiej by Audinga Peluritytė-Tikuišienė

“… The myth of the founding of the city of Vilnius became particularly important in Lithuanian art in the decade of the restoration of independence. …”
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Oublier la Renaissance, désapprendre l’humanisme : Le premier Baroque entre exploitation des acquis et table rase imaginaire by Itay Sapir

“…This article seeks to revise the common narrative on the birth of the Baroque, avoiding both the myth of the Tabula rasa and that of the Déjà vu. …”
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O insulă exotică a culturii române: Dora d’Istria by Liviu Bordaş

“…In close connection with this, we attempted a first analysis of the Albanian origin myth, which played an important role in her intellectual activism after 1866. …”
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Rockstar Games, Red Dead Redemption, and Narratives of “Progress” by Esther Wright

“…Ultimately, this article explores the tensions between a company that claims to offer games that are both “authentic” and critical of turn-of-the-century US history and culture, yet which implicitly rely on the ideologies that accompany narratives of “progress” and “civilization,” bound up as they are with the Frontier myth, white supremacy, and colonialism.…”
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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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