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Dardzinski, Thomas. "The regenerative paradigm: male initiations in Joseph Conrad's The Nigger of the "Narcissus", Heart of Darkness, and the shadow-line." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=106260.

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The following thesis looks at the male initiation motif in Joseph Conrad's The Nigger of the "Narcissus," Heart of Darkness, and The Shadow-Line from the perspective of contemporary anthropology. I argue that Conrad was not only well versed in late-Victorian science, but also used anthropological data on so-called primitive races in his fiction to challenge the covert political ideologies of social Darwinism. He recognized that new developments in Darwin's theory of evolution, which propagated widespread anxiety over the cultural and biological degeneration of Western civilization at the fin d

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Apichella, Michael. "Interstate '69 : the separation, initiation, and transformation of the fatherless hero in myth and literature." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2008. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.742419.

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Das, Anup Kumar. "Open Access to Knowledge and Information: Scholarly Literature and Digital Library Initiatives - the South Asian Scenario." UNESCO, New Delhi, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106335.

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The South Asia sub-region is now in the forefront of the Open Access movement within developing countries in the world, with India being the most prominent partner in terms of its successful Open Access and Digital Library initiatives. Institutional and policy frameworks in India also facilitate innovative solutions for increasing international visibility and accessibility of scholarly literature and documentary heritage in this country. This publication has its genesis in the recommendations and proceedings of UNESCO-supported international conferences and workshops including the 4th Inte

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Kouagou, Noel [Verfasser]. "Reise als Initiation in Hermann Hesses Romanen Siddhartha und Die Morgenlandfahrt / Noel Kouagou." Aachen : Shaker, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1098041259/34.

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Doherty, Helen. "The motif of initiation in selected works by Joseph Conrad." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002263.

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This thesis explores the archetypal theme of initiation in selected texts by Joseph Conrad. The Introduction first surveys critical attention to initiatory motifs in Conrad with the objective of demonstrating the need for an approach to the topic informed by a more formal and theorized understanding of initiation. It then offers a prima facie case for the centrality of the idea of initiation in Conrad's oeuvre, based on references culled from a range of the author's writings. Chapter One seeks to contextualise initiation by providing a history of anthropological research into and theorisations

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Milsted, Collyn E. "Initiation in the Novellas of Henry James." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/86.

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This Master’s Thesis seeks to explain the process of initiation undergone by Henry James’s characters. Characters are chosen for initiation into forbidden knowledge, and, like the Biblical Adam and Eve, are exiled as a result. Though initiation is erotic, it is not sexual, and society falsely perceives a sexually charged relationship between the initiator and the initiate, also called the complementary pair. The initiate faces exile and death because of his forbidden knowledge. He no longer has a place in his society, which leads to his social death and eventually physical death. James’s

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Addei, Cecilia. "Childhoods dis-ordered: Non-realist narrative modes in selected post-2000 West African war novels." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5447.

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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD<br>This study explores how selected West African war novels employ non-realist narrative modes to portray disruptions in the child’s development into adulthood. The novels considered are Chris Abani’s Song for Night (2007), Ahmadou Kourouma’s Allah is Not Obliged (2006), Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation (2005) and Delia Jarrett-Macauley’s Moses, Citizen and Me (2005). These novels strain at the conventions of realism as a consequence of the attempt to represent the disruptions in child development as a result of the upheavals of war. A core proposition of t

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Batista, Miguel. "Bildung and initiation : interpreting German and American narrative traditions." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14616.

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This thesis is divided into two main parts. The first, comprising the three initial chapters, looks, in chapter one, at the specifically German origins of the Bildungsroman, its distinctive features, and the difficulties surrounding its transplantation into the literary contexts of other countries. Particular attention is paid to the ethical dimension of the genre, i.e. to the relation between the individual self and the exterior world, and how it affects individual formation. The focus then shifts to American literature, and the term 'narrative of initiation' is recommended as a credible alte

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Brodnicka, Monika Luiza. "The ancient wor(l)d of knowledge invoking Amadou Hampaté Bâ's living tradition in West African tales of initiation, Sufi practice, and literature /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2007.

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Theodoropoulou, Athanasia. "Stories of initiation for the modern age : explorations of textual and theatrical fantasy in Jules Verne's Voyage à travers l'impossible and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/4294.

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While the theatrical works of Jules Verne have gathered some critical attention over recent years, the text of the Voyage à travers l’Impossible has remained an obscure space in the author’s oeuvre or deemed unworthy by Vernian scholars. Jules Verne has predominantly been seen as a writer of adventure novels whereas the fantastic elements in his work have commonly been overlooked by critics. This thesis examines the ways in which the Voyage à travers l’Impossible amalgamates ideas that are representative not only of the Vernian work in general but also of the pre-freudian spirit of the ninet

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Darnis, Pierre. "Lecture et initiation dans le récit bref cervantin." Phd thesis, Université Toulouse le Mirail - Toulouse II, 2006. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00116592.

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La première partie étudie la conception de la réception dans l'ensemble de l'œuvre cervantine. On mesure pourquoi l'auteur dénonce les récits chevaleresques, pastoraux et sentimentaux, coupables de provoquer une emprise fictionnelle exagérée et de proposer de dangereux modèles de comportements.<br />Les Nouvelles exemplaires (Novelas ejemplares) leur répondent par la reprise de scénarios tirés des contes de fées et des mythes tragiques (2e).<br />L'exemplarité se définit par la poétique sous-jacente à ces deux modèles : celle de l'initiation (3e). La thèse dégage deux axes d'éducation : l'init

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Owens, Megan E. "Reading as a Resource: Exploring Reading Habits and Multicultural Awareness and Acceptance in Undergraduate Students." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3095.

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Considerable research has been conducted examining the benefits of diversity on campus and diversity programming for undergraduate students. However, minimal research has been focused on connecting reading fiction as a potential resource for diversity programming. Diversity courses, racial awareness workshops, and service learning opportunities are all supported by research for their transformational influence on students’ attitudes and perceptions towards minority and underrepresented groups on campus. Emerging studies have established that reading narrative fiction can enhance readers’ empat

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Björklund, Marcus, and Jonas Hjelmar. "Adopting Software Product Lines : Guidelines based on the Maturity of Organizations." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-5196.

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Software Product Lines (SPL) is a relatively new way of working in software development. A SPL is an enforced architecture and a collection of components common for more than one product within a domain. Development using SPL utilizes tools and techniques for creating software systems from a common set of core assets in order to satisfy a certain market. In this study we investigate how to proceed when transitioning to a SPL development approach by evaluating proposed and used adoption approaches, methods and frameworks. We performed a systematic literature review using three main sources; Com

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Parvis, G. "IL TEMA DEL VIAGGIO INIZIATICO NELLA LETTERATURA DELL'AFRICA SUBSAHARIANA DALLA TRADIZIONE ORALE ALLA MODERNIZAZIONE ROMANZESCA (AMADOU HAMPATE' BA, AHMADOU KOUROUMA)." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/150563.

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This research work speaks about the initiation trip's subject in the African subsharian literature. Through a comparison between some oral tradition's tales (transcribed by Amadou Hampaté Ba) and two contemporary novels (L'étrange destin de Wangrin of Amadou Hampaté Ba and Monnè, outrages et défis of Ahmadou Kourouma), we analyze the subject's development from the oral to the written literature. In particular, we show how the colonization has changed the essence of this subject depending on the traditional vision. This study is seconded by the analysis of two essential variants of the selected

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Makaula, Phiwe Ndonana. "Aspects of moral education in Bhaca mamtiseni and nkciyo initiation rituals / Makaula P.N." Thesis, North-West University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/4850.

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The main objective of this mini–dissertation is to investigate the basic form and content of moral education as it manifests itself in the mamtiseni and nkciyo female initiation rituals of the Mount Frere region of the Eastern Cape Province of the Republic of South Africa. The main theoretical position taken is the reemergent African Renaissance coupled with African indigenous knowledge systems, first revived by (former) President Thabo Mbeki. Accordingly the main purpose of this study is to address the transmission of moral aspects of female Bhaca initiation inherent in behavioural/cultural e

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Fritts, David C. "The Warrior Gets Married: Constructing the Masculine Hero in Beowulf and Chr¿¿¿¿tien de Troyes’ Erec et Enide." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1339690252.

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Gille, Comte-Sponville Aurélie. "Modernité et archaïsme des lieux dans les romans d'enquête et d'aventure pour la jeunesse pendant les Trente Glorieuses en France." Thesis, Artois, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016ARTO0008/document.

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Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la France vit une période de croissance économique remarquable qui s’achève après le premier choc pétrolier de 1973 et que l’on désigne communément sous le nom de « Trente Glorieuses ». L’édition profite pleinement de cette ère de prospérité : de nombreux ouvrages pour la jeunesse paraissent dès la fin de la guerre et conquièrent leur lectorat. Quelques collections connaissent alors leur apogée : Bibliothèque rose et verte ou Signe de Piste par exemple. Mais alors que la modernité envahit peu à peu la plupart des foyers, de nombreux romans pour la jeunesse met

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Vukovic, Kresimir. "The Roman festival of the Lupercalia : history, myth, ritual and its Indo-European heritage." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2765ebe9-20ef-47c0-9d48-63c7e8a2fb34.

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The Roman festival of the Lupercalia is one of the most discussed issues in the field of pre-Christian Roman religion. Hardly a year goes by without an article on the subject appearing in a major Classics journal. But the festival presents a range of issues that individual articles cannot address. This thesis is an attempt to present a modern analysis of the phenomenon of the Lupercalia as a whole, including literary, archaeological and historical evidence on the subject. The first section presents the ancient sources on the Lupercalia, and is divided into five chapters, each analysing a parti

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Folio, Jessica Joëlle. "La poétique de l'abjection dans la littérature gothique américaine postmoderne : le cas de Stephen King (1947- ), Peter Straub (1943- ) et Chuck Palahniuk (1962- )." Phd thesis, Université de la Réunion, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00716880.

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La littérature est une source d'où jaillissent les flots intarissables du paradoxe ; c'est dans cet entrelacement de dichotomies que nous nous sommes immergées pour percevoir l'unité sous-jacente derrière l'oxymore que constitue le titre de notre thèse : " une poétique de l'abjection dans la littérature gothique américaine postmoderne. " Si nous nous sommes tournées vers Stephen King, Peter Straub et Chuck Palahniuk et avons mis l'accent sur trois de leurs œuvres précises, notre démonstration se veut être transposable à l'ensemble de leurs écrits. Nous nous sommes interrogées sur la nature de

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Harsany, Katarzyna. "Le sujet infini face au miroir de l’autobiographie onirique. La narration fragmentaire dans Król-duch de Juliusz Słowacki et dans Aurélia de Gérard de Nerval." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040093.

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Le parallèle entre Król-Duch de Juliusz Słowacki et Aurélia de Gérard de Nerval est une comparaison narratologique des deux œuvres (en dehors de l’étude d'influences réciproques, comme de l’étude de sources). Le rapprochement des deux auteurs (enrichi par l’apparition, en arrière-fond, de Novalis - toujours dans la perspective d'un parallèle) se construit autour du thème de l’écriture de la révélation onirique. Elle laisse apparaître une rupture fondamentale entre le contenu de la révélation – une existence continue du moi - et la forme discontinue et inachevée sous laquelle elle s’exprime. L’

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Samson, Sylvain. "Saint Exupéry et Villiers de l'Isle-Adam : Les épicentres de la construction de l'Univers, du parcours et de la figure du héros dans le Théâtre de Luigi Dallapiccola : une esthétique du sacré et de l'initiatique." Thesis, Tours, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011TOUR2031.

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L’opéra occupe une place essentielle dans la pensée de Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975). Ses deux premiers opéras, Volo di notte et Il Prigioniero, sont influencés par Antoine de Saint Exupéry (1900-1944) et Auguste de Villiers de l’Isle-Adam (1838-1889). Ces deux auteurs, fondamentaux pour l’ensemble du corpus musico-théâtral du compositeur, s’avèrent décisifs dans sa conception de l’Univers, du Parcours et de la Figure du Héros : ils annoncent une esthétique du Sacré et de l’Initiatique. En écrivant lui-même ses livrets, Dallapiccola retravaille ses sources, qu’il questionne et qu’il associe à

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Pereira, Alexandre Gonçalves. "A arquitetura mítica da narrativa rosiana: as raízes do monomito na travessia heróica de Augusto Matraga." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2009. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14906.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:59:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Alexandre Goncalves Pereira.pdf: 920270 bytes, checksum: b74d5a26245b74e2ce72895710738b72 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-08-11<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior<br>The research investigates Guimarães Rosa s mythical speech through the construction of the mythical character, according to Campbell s model of the monomyth. The corpus adopted is the short story A Hora e Vez de Augusto Matraga. It also focuses the sources of the literary creation in which the author got his inspiration to co

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Wanjema, Richard Wachira. "INTERACTIVE MEDIA and CULTURAL HERITAGE: Interpreting Oral Culture in a Digital Environment." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1343405232.

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Brites, Alice Dantas. "Monitoramento dos efeitos ecológicos e socioeconômicos da comercialização de produtos florestais não madereiros." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/90/90131/tde-24032011-215203/.

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A comercialização de produtos florestais não madeireiros (PFNMs) popularizou-se como atividade promotora do desenvolvimento socioeconômico de comunidades florestais com baixo impacto ambiental. Há evidências, contudo, de que a exploração possa produzir efeitos ecológicos e socioeconômicos negativos, sugerindo que é necessário monitorar tais iniciativas. A comercialização frequentemente ocorre em áreas remotas e em contextos de pobreza, como é o caso de muitas daquelas da Amazônia brasileira. Desta forma, é necessário que o monitoramento restrinja-se a avaliar os efeitos evidenciados como mais

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HUI, LU TE, and 呂得輝. "The Mind Catchers of Initiation and growth in Youth novels-Winning Chiuko Modern Children’s Literature." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3463g4.

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碩士<br>國立臺東大學<br>兒童文學研究所<br>94<br>Abstract Different encounters in life make different stories because of everyone’s unique living surrounding. The topics of Chiuko Modern Children’s Literature Award made the youth as the leading roles to describe the initiated trip of their changes and growth process. These works are like mirrors when the young stand in front just like to experienced the every moment and feeling in their life. They feel so close as to these works and learn to adapt themselves from others’ steps. There are five chapters in this study. First, in addition to introducing t

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Vitásková, Magdaléna. "Symbolika v díle Ibn Síny: Interpretace iniciačních příběhů." Doctoral thesis, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-267934.

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The aim of this thesis is to interpretate the stories The Living, son of the Vigilant, The Bird and Salaman and Absal, written by one of the greatest scholars of medieval Islamic East, Ibn Sina (980-1037). Unlike his philosophical and medical writings these stories have a different character and create a coherent narrative cycle. Based on their themes, narrative methods and symbolism they should be in my opinion called initiation stories. The main aim of this dissertation is thus to verify this hypothesis by means of the hermeneutic interpretation. These stories, read as a coherent cycle, show

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Feneja, Fernanda Luísa da Silva. "A reinvenção do paradigma épico na ficção inicial de John Dos Passos : uma leitura de One Man’s initiation, Three Soldiers e Manhattan Transfer." Doctoral thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/783.

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Tese de Doutoramento em Literatura na especialidade de Literatura Norte-Americana apresentada à Universidade Aberta<br>O corpo de narrativas de John Dos Passos que é objecto deste estudo comporta possibilidades de reflexão em torno de traços que poderão ser considerados matriciais na ficção deste escritor, gizados a partir da sua primeira obra, One Man’s Initiation, e consolidados nos trabalhos posteriores. Constituem eixos centrais a esta investigação dimensões que, por um lado, se prefiguram como comuns aos três textos em análise e, por outro, como globalmente estruturantes. A expressão de

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Melichová, Magda. "Cesty a zastavení: role hostince ve fantasy literatuře." Master's thesis, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-388958.

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(in English) The thesis aimed to explore the topos of inn in relation to the topos of journey in fantasy literature. The first step was to define the term fantasy literature with regard to the set of texts selected for the analysis; namely their connection to mythology and fairy tales, genres working with hero's initiation journey. Integral part of the thesis was to consider theoretical works focused on the image of pubs in literature, as well as a short description of the form and function of this topos in other genres. The subject of the analysis were inns from six fictional worlds represent

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Mendes, Ana Catarina Simões Martins. "Impact of social media data on postmarket safety evaluation of medicines: a literature review on automatic mining initiatives of adverse drug reactions." Master's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/125980.

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Dissertation presented as the partial requirement for obtaining a Master's degree in Information Management, specialization in Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence<br>Introduction/Background: The impact of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) on public health and national healthcare systems is substantial. The current pharmacovigilance method is time-consuming, incomplete and prone to data loss. Also, due to characteristics inherent to the reporting process, a great portion of ADRs are never reported. Social media (SM) data, due to its volume and immediacy, shows promise for a patient c

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Dynda, Jiří. "Byliny o bohatýru Svjatogorovi: Strukturální a komparativní analýza narativu." Master's thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-339587.

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Jiří Dynda Byliny of bogatyr Svyatogor: Structural and Comparative Analysis of Narrative (MA Thesis) Abstract This thesis is an analysis and interpretation of the thirty seven textual variants of the byliny of bogatyr Svyatogor. After the general introduction to the Russian folk epics and after the presentation of issues concerning the study of oral epic literature, author's own structural concept of myth and cultural representations is presented. In the central part the thesis attempts to apply these principles to the narrative of the byliny of Svyatogor and by means of a thorough analysis it

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Mikulová, Tamara. "Mircea Eliade - rozprávač - zasvätiteľ. Iniciačný rozmer jeho fantastických próz." Doctoral thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-350961.

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Our work is devoted to the Romanian philosopher and author of fantastic prose, Mircea Eliade. The unique feature of his fiction lies in the narrative building upon the initiating structure, and reflecting the mythological consciousness, which is perceived by the author as a means of escaping historical relativism. In order to analyse his work we applied the hermeneutic approach, which is in our view best suited for interpretation of Eliade's prose. The hermeneutic approach shows that the author-narrator assumes the function of a religious initiator, who is in possession of a vision of the worl

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Ouanghari, Abdallah. "Écriture, altérité et identité dans La quarantaine de JMG Le Clézio." Thèse, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/5484.

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L’œuvre de JMG Le Clézio se caractérise par sa perpétuelle évolution. Elle échappe aux classifications génériques et maintient son statut subversif et indépendant. L’écriture de cet écrivain traduit les diverses influences qui l’ont marqué, les problèmes auxquels il fait face et la thématique majeure dans laquelle il inscrit son œuvre. À travers l’étude de La quarantaine, paru en 1995, nous essayerons lors du premier chapitre de comprendre comment Le Clézio réinvente son écriture pour remédier au problème de l’impureté du langage qui caractérisait son œuvre d’avant les années quatre-ving

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Slabbert, Mathilda. "Inventions and transformations : an exploration of mythification and remythification in four contemporary novels." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2267.

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The reading of four contemporary novels, namely: Credo by Melvyn Bragg, The Catastrophist by Ronan Bennett, Everything You Need by A.L. Kennedy and American Gods by Neil Gaiman explores the prominent position of mythification and remythification in contemporary literature. The discussion of Bragg's novel examines the significance of Celtic mythology and folklore and to what extent it influenced Christian mythology on the British Isles and vice versa. The presentation of the transition from a cyclical, pagan to a linear, Christian belief system is analysed. My analysis of Bennett's novel sup

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