From the Road Movie to Wilderness Travel: The Quest for Adventure on the Road and the Myth of the Heroic Traveller by Pascale Argod

“…The aesthetics of the image, panoramic landscape and grandeur of nature are thought to be a legacy of the notions of ‘picturesqueness’ and the ‘pioneer front’, while the renewed myths of both the wandering hero (Benoliel, 2011) and the quest for a new world seem to have developed from the literary references of On the Road and the Beat Generation’s ‘Beat ethos’.…”
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Asset choice in British central banking history, the myth of the safe asset, and bank regulation by William A. Allen

“…It explores the relationship between government securities, central bank assets and bank liquidity regulation, exposes as a myth the belief that government securities are perfectly safe assets, and challenges the idea that central banks should confine their asset holdings to government securities. …”
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Linda H. Peterson. Becoming a Woman of Letters : Myths of Authorship and Facts of the Victorian Market by Fabienne Moine

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No More Myth: Unveiling the Knowledge-Based Customer Value Co-Creation Prototype of SME Hotels by Kornthong Tesprasit, Mongkolchai Wiriyapinit, Uthai Tanlamai, Krerk Piromsopa

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L’égalité des droits à l’éducation en Angleterre : mythe ou réalité ? by Yvette Léon-Aubert

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Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause by Joseph Gratale

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Sophie Marret & Pascale Renaud-Grosbras, eds. Lectures et écritures du Mythe by Jacqueline BERBEN-MASI

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Rape Myth Acceptance in the Digital Age: The Effects of Using Dating Apps and the Moderation Role of Gender by Luye Li

“…Rape myth acceptance (RMA) is a crucial predictor of rape proclivity. …”
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En Afrique, pourquoi meurt-on ? Essai sur l’histoire d’un mythe africain by Jean-Loïc Le Quellec

“…Among the myths of origin of death, that of the perverted message has a very particular distribution in Africa. …”
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Hill Jonathan D., Made-from-bone. Trickster myths, music, and history from the Amazon by Emmanuel de Vienne

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Sarraounia, une reine africaine entre histoire et mythe littéraire (Niger, 1899-2010) by Elara Bertho

“…The writer Abdoulaye Mamani, using oral myths from the area of Lougou, Niger, re-wrote the story of Queen Sarraounia, who was said to have fought the French Voulet-Chanoine column in 1899. …”
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Les quatre éléments dans « Karain » de Joseph Conrad : du mythe au manque by Catherine Delmas

“…However Conrad subverts the opposition by casting light on the illusion and artificiality of the representation and deconstructing the orientalist myth. The four elements first highlight the motif of human illusions and contribute to the symbolic function of the East ; they also serve a literary topos by enhancing the tragic muthos which is then immediately deconstucted ; the orientalist mode of representation is also called into question by impressionism, conveyed by fragmentation and the relativity of the point of view. …”
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L’aéroport du Bourget et son territoire. Du mythe à la réalité by Antoine Furio

“…This article, offering a synthesis of the 2015 publication entitled L'Aéroport du Bourget entre les lignes, tries to distinguish between myth and reality in the history of Le Bourget.…”
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Traditional Minangkabau disaster mitigation in the Semangko Fault in West Sumatra based on ecological site myths by Anwar Khairil, Khallifhatul Khanh Varhanno, Qurratu Ayuni Khanh Vitrya, Narny Yenny

“…This paper discusses traditional Minangkabau disaster mitigation based on the myths of Minangkabau ecological sites located in the Semangko Fault area in West Sumatra. …”
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Sandrine Legrand, Hector au Moyen Âge – Définition et évolution d’un personnage épique et romanesque by Sandrine Legrand

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Francis Dupuis-Déri, La crise de la masculinité. Autopsie d’un mythe tenace by Patrick Farges

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Revolution, Eschatology, and Myth. Religious and Nature Metaphors of Temporality in Swedish Socialist Press in the Years of the Russian Revolutions by Karin Jonsson

“…This was achieved by reintroducing a kind of myth of eternal return into a teleological and eschatological conception of history.…”
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Myth-making and Uchronia: The Advent of a Fascist America in Nathanael West’s A Cool Million (1934) by Frank Conesa

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Charles Quint maître du monde : entre mythe et réalité. Juan Carlos D’Amico by Jean-Louis Fournel

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Béatrice Laurent (ed.), Sleeping Beauties in Victorian England: Cultural, Literary and Artistic Explorations of a Myth by Julie Sauvage

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