« L’étrangeté vocalique » dans quelques nouvelles de Flannery O’Connor et de Barry Hannah by Claudia Desblaches

“…Starting from Steven Connor’s definition of “the vocalic uncanny” as thwarted or imperfect utterance or “the conflict of embodiment and meaning” (in Myth, Modernity and the Vocalic Uncanny), this article attempts to identify the different manifestations of strangeness or the uncanny, notably strange vernacular words or the repressed voice which surges unexpectedly in simple letter changes. …”
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Do Akhbār Mulūk al-Andalus [Notícias dos Monarcas da Hispânia] à Crónica do Mouro Rasis by António Rei

“…A work and a myth, whose journey began in the 10th century, in the Califal Chancellery of Córdoba, during the reign of ‘Abd al-Raḥmān III, and whose contents and information are still valid today and giving rise to several and varied studies. …”
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In Search of Lost National Epic: Poem Kastītis ir Juraite by Auszra poet Andrius Vištelis by Ieva Kristinaitytė

“…The poem has not been analysed until now, although it is one of the earliest texts in Lithuanian about the myth of Jūratė and Kastytis. The poem can be considered as an attempt to create the missing Lithuanian national epic for the emerging modern Lithuanian national community. …”
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Tacit Racism Toward Roma Students: The Case of a Turkish Public School by Ozan Uştuk

“…While comprehending systemic challenges, the adherence of the teachers to the myth of meritocracy fosters cognitive dissonance, which results in a dismissive incomprehension of the realities of and occasional assignment of blame to Roma students. …”
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How to Attract Women in STEM and Help Them Become Successful: The Review of Practices of Overcoming Gender Stereotypes by N. G. Maloshonok, I. A. Shcheglova, K. A. Vilkova, M. O. Abramova

“…Despite the widespread “myth of gender equality” in Russia, this problem is also relevant for our country. …”
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Cannabis mythology: the process of shaping from experience in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand by Fareeda Jeh-oh, Attanan Tachopisalwong

“…This study uses Barthes’ theory of myth to analyze how cultural institutions—namely governmental, educational, healthcare, and media organizations—reshape the perception of cannabis to conform to changing ideologies. …”
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Проекты Нового краеведения в неофициальной истории города: опыт Санкт-Петербурга by Anna Troitskaya

“…This article examines phenomena united by the concepts of local (spatial) myth and urban narrative, which go beyond official discourse. …”
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Réécrire l'Histoire pour les enfants du point de vue des Amérindiens : devoir de mémoire, devoir d'imagination (Brésil, États-Unis) by Pauline Franchini

“…Fiction becomes – paradoxically – a mean to access History's concealed truth and to denounce it, aswell as its secrets, as a fiction itself, should we think about the myth of « discovery », to the glorification of pioneers and to the stereotypes spread about americindians. …”
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Territórios e identidades dos ribeirinhos pescadores vazanteiros do rio Araguaia em Araguatins, Tocantins by Eliseu Pereira de Brito, Matheus Miranda Shimasaki

“…Territorial identity was treated according to the three pillars: myth, history and territory and according to the identities of persistence proposed by Brito (2016). …”
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Persephone by Laure-Hélène ANTHONY-GERROLDT

“…It is also part of a wider artistic project that includes paintings, photographs, a short film and other creations, which all work as so many reverberations and refractions of the poems themselves.The project was partly inspired by H.D.’s poem “Eurydice,” a piece that really made me want to work with myth and to give a voice to women whose perspective is rarely portrayed in literature. …”
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The Role of Education in Achieving the Right for Decent Human Life by A. G. Kislov, Y. M. Kropaneva

“…The authors made an attempt to reconcile the pathos of the human right adherents and the skeptics reducing the idea to the declarative unverifiable myth or ideology. The research output can be used both for goal-setting in educational sphere and normative legal acts development concerning education and human rights.…”
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Music videos as cultural artefacts of the eighties by Retha Van Niekerk

“…The connotative level or the level of representation includes television codes (non-filmic and filmic), narrative codes and intertextual codes The level of myth or the level of ideology includes stylistic or textual devices such as metaphors, allegories, fetishism, voyeurism and parody. …”
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The Vosges, border of Alsace (1871-1914) by Sébastien Stumpp, Julien Fuchs

“…Some considered it to be a unifying border that perpetuated the myth of the lost provinces, ritualised the crossing of the Franco-German border, and symbolised their strong ties with the French Alpine Club. …”
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The Renewal of the Twenty Years in Theater: Revisions Based on The Danton Case by Stanisława Przybyszewska from 2008 by Katarzyna Fazan

“…The mentioned stage production of the twenty-first century draw attention to the current of aesthetic-political engagement in Polish interwar theater, and inscribe this theme in the program of dismantling earlier theatrical hierarchies built on the concept of a national community united by Romantic myth. Despite the fact that Stanisława Przybyszewska was not part of the feminist movement, the renewal of the meanings and form of her drama can be linked today, firstly, to the appreciation of her as an important voice of a politically and socially conscious author, proposing Brechtian-style theater, and secondly, to the revision of the twentieth century seen anew as a moment of women’s attempt at breaking the masculocentric order of social life. …”
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Sedrata : l’élaboration d’un lieu de mémoire by Cyrille Aillet, Sophie Gilotte

“…Lethielleux contributed to the last developments in the forgery of the myth by his writings where local traditions are confusingly entangled with historical reports. …”
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Skinner Sweet, American Vampire by James J. Donahue

“…Reborn as a vampire during the American west of the 1880s, Skinner Sweet embodies an American identity defined by the myth of the west and the American Dream it gave birth to. …”
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La vie affective des objets. Sur quelques reliques de l’atelier d’Ingres by Clara Lespessailles

“…This participation in the construction of the artist’s myth is manifested in the singular fetishism attributed to the creative space and, ultimately, to the objects within it. …”
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Fra armesterke bondesønner til akademikerbarn by Paul Larsson

“…This article documents the movement of the Norwegian police away from the recruitment of "arm strong country boys" at the end of the 1960 's in favour of the sons and daughters of the relatively well-educated middleclass. The myth of the strong country boy is well supported by research. …”
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The Lithuanianisation of Adam Mickiewicz by Viktorija Šeina

“…In this article, I explore two ways that Mickiewicz was Lithuanianised: through a myth surrounding his ethnic origins and by introducing distortions into Lithuanian translations of the poet’s works. …”
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The Roman catastrophe of 1527 in the Italian Wars, or Sacco di Roma: analysis of the historical interpretation of the event by several contemporaries by Pavlov Kirill Vladimirovich

“…The study analyses the perception of historical event contemporaries that represents a “perfect myth” from its accomplishment: the Roman catastrophe in the Italian Wars of 1527, or “Sack of Rome” (Sacco di Roma), when the troops of the Habsburg Empire occupied Rome and forced Pope Clement VII to flee the city. …”
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