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Tanzharikova, A., D. Satemirova, and B. Kelgembayeva. "ARTISTIC FUNCTION OF MYTH IS IN KAZAKH PROSE." BULLETIN Series of Philological Sciences 72, no. 2 (2020): 368–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.51889/2020-2.1728-7804.57.
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The use of the myth in modern Kazakh prose in different senses is of interest to the reader. This allows us to determine how the authors' attitudes towards different literary trends are conveyed in the choice of basic myths to reflect the ideas presented in the myth. Using myths, the author enters into a dialogue with several traditions, and secondly, reinterprets a well-known mythological plot, creates his own image, as a result of which the narrative becomes a myth. The protagonist's mythological worldview is characterized by a special perception of time and space. This scientific article analyzes the features of the use of folk myths in Kazakh prose and identifies their artistic function.The prerequisites for renewed interest in myth in Kazakh prose at the end of the 20th century are being clarified. The relationship of mythological traditions and new literary trends in Kazakh prose is considered. The artistic function of myth is determined in the image of real life through mythological models and images.
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Prilutskiy, Aleksandr. "Vaccination vs Microchipping: Triggers of Eschatological Mythology in the Context of Anti-Epidemic Measures." Vestnik of Northern (Arctic) Federal University. Series Humanitarian and Social Sciences, no. 3 (July 21, 2021): 108–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.37482/2687-1505-v107.
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The coronavirus epidemic and anti-epidemic measures, such as quarantine restrictions on social activity, wide use of disinfectants, requirements for the use of personal protective equipment, as well as changes in church liturgy, rituals and sacraments lead to the creation of medical conspiracy myths. This article analyses two most important conspiracy mythologemes that are formed as a result of a conspiracy interpretation of the epidemic: the vaccination mythologeme and the microchipping mythologeme. The author proceeds from the assumption that modern eschatological conspiracy myths are based on the original non-eschatological myth, which provided a rational non-religious hermeneutics of epidemics. The eschatological version of the vaccinophobic conspiracy myth is formed on the basis of a non-eschatological conspiracy as a result of medical conspiracy theories merging with the modern version of the technophobic myth. The invariant core of the latter consists of mythologemes and mythotheologemes that interpret modern technologies within the framework of eschatological semiotics. As a result of convergence, these mythologemes form a single mythotheological complex, which, in turn, becomes a trigger for a new eschatological mythology. The paper analyses the semantic structure of this mytho-theological complex, its semiotic features, pragmatic potential and reasons for its popularity. The research was carried out within the framework of a semiotic and hermeneutic study of mythological discourse applying the method of categorical semiotics. As illustrations the author used fragments of original texts posted on conspiracy websites devoted to eschatological issues.
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Nadezhda, Aleksandrova. ""Jewish Myths" in the National History: Jews in Ancient Russia." TECHNOLOGOS, no. 1 (2021): 55–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.15593/perm.kipf/2021.1.05.
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This article is devoted to the consideration, formation and development of two historical myths in Russian Jewish studies: the "Khazar myth" and the "Kenaanites myth." The key works of A.Ya. Garkavi devoted to the statement of "Jewish myths" in Jewish studies have been discussed in the article. The author reveals the background of this problem appearance in Jewish studies and prerequisites which determined its father’s interest in this topic. The need to turn to the consideration of "Jewish myths" in the historiography of the problem "the history of Jews of Ancient Russia" is dictated primarily by the actualization of scientific interest in the beginning of the history of Jewish diasporas in Russia. Discussions between historians and researchers of Jewish studies have obtained the characteristic of the "modern historical paradox," as far modern researchers turn to the long-forgotten hypotheses of historians of the 19th century with the aim of proving them today on the basis of relevant material. The purpose of this article is to consider two forms of historical representation on the example of studies of two Jewish myths (the Khazar myth and the later Kenaanites myth). We pose a problem to analyze the process of myth formation, its interpretation during this formation and the growth of its thematic content. The theoretical basis of the article is P. Ricoeur's ideas about the "historiographic process." Although the philosopher recognizes strict methodological operations and methods he nevertheless attributes the decisive importance to the historical intentionality of the researcher and the skill of representing the historical narrative. At the end of the article the author makes a conclusion about the difference between the forms of representation of the Khazar myth and the myth of Kenaanites in the works of modern Russian researchers in Jewish studies.
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Utkin, Abbot Vitaly. "“Joannism” as Interpretive Myth: Politics, Mass Media and Church." Almanac “Essays on Conservatism” 102 (March 1, 2020): 143–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.24030/24092517-2020-0-1-143-159.
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The article is devoted to the mass popular mystic movement of “Joannites” who were the followers of saint holy John of Kronstadt. The author believes that “Joannism” like the “Imiabozhie” and “Khlysts” sects were largely interpretive myths. They were created by the missionary society as well as by the clerical and secular mass media. This myth was actively used for political purposes. The author includes new materials on the police attacks on Joannite orphanages in St. Petersburg. He brings forth the problem of “Joannism” connection with ecclesiastical consciousness in the post-war and contemporary periods.
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Urbanitsch, Peter. "Pluralist Myth and Nationalist Realities: The Dynastic Myth of the Habsburg Monarchy—a Futile Exercise in the Creation of Identity?" Austrian History Yearbook 35 (January 2004): 101–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0067237800020968.
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What is a myth? This question cannot be easily answered; the notions and concepts used in various scientific disciplines are too divergent and, as with many other terms, they possess different meanings in different societies. For the purpose of this article, a definition by Philip Manger is useful. According to this author, a myth is “a form of poetic truth, the sifting out of an essence, a hypothetical, metahistorical core that contained an intrinsic meaning,” a meaning that joins the past to the present and thus establishes another, perhaps higher, form of reality. This holds true for all kinds of myths, but especially for the “political” myth that will be dealt with in this paper.
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Mazurkiewicz, Michał. "The Types, Interpretations and Functions of Myth." Respectus Philologicus 22, no. 27 (2012): 45–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/respectus.2012.27.15336.
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In this article, the author analyses the phenomenon of myth—a significant element of culture—by presenting miscellaneous types of myths that have accompanied human beings from the dawn of time to the present, interpreting them from the point of view of (for example) philosophy or psychoanalysis, the functions of myths, and their ways of influencing human beings in the contemporary world. Myths are complex cultural phenomena, difficult to assess unambiguously. One of the main reasons is the fact that they are not only holy tales having some religious background; we can also talk about secular myths, for example in art or in sport. As far as our contemporary world—brazenly hi-tech and filled with the spirit of logos—is concerned, it is an interesting fact that myths do not surface but remain hidden, as it were; they are in many cases a subconscious way of seeing things. It depends on the individual whether he or she somehow notices those wisdoms existing somewhere under the mask of the world, industrialized and permeated by unemotional technology as it is. Without a shadow of a doubt, myths fulfil many important functions—they are a wonderful source of wisdom, teach people humility, and give hope and strength in difficult periods. Undoubtedly, they are not—as some people would probably prefer—mere relics of a distant past. The forms of myths may, however, evolve. Looking closely into this phenomenon, one can notice that myths may occur (in different realms of life) in somewhat changed, modernized forms. The author of this article has based his analysis on numerous works of a group of illustrious researchers who specialize in exploring the phenomenon of myth, e.g., among others: Bronisław Malinowski (a Polish anthropologist, one of the most important anthropologists of the 20th century), Mircea Eliade (a Romanian historian of religion, one of the leading interpreters of religious experience), and Sigmund Freud (an Austrian neurologist, founder of the discipline of psychoanalysis).
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MORAN, JOE. "Don DeLillo and the Myth of the Author–Recluse." Journal of American Studies 34, no. 1 (2000): 137–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875899006301.
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The subtly entrapping nature of celebrity has been a common theme of Don DeLillo's work since his third novel, Great Jones Street (1973), narrated by a twenty-six-year-old rock star, Bucky Wunderlick, who tires of fame in the middle of a national tour and goes to ground in a seedy New York bedsitter. This theme, however, finds its fullest expression in DeLillo's 1991 novel Mao II, where it is linked to a specific concern which may be closer to home for him – the paradoxical fascination with author–recluses in American celebrity culture. DeLillo, who came to reluctant terms with major league celebrity from the mid-1980s onwards after a long period of respectful reviews and polite notices, has praised reclusive authors for “refusing to become part of the all-incorporating treadmill of consumption and disposal,” in spite of the “automatic mechanism” of the media which tries “to absorb certain such reluctant entities into the weave.” Mao II is about what happens when this absorption takes place, and whether or not this wholly devalues the author's own tactics of silence and renunciation.
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Vladimirova, Tatyana E. "Semantic Continuumof Myth." RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics 11, no. 2 (2020): 161–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-2299-2020-11-2-161-174.
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Language, the first cultural phenomenon, received textual expression in myths, of which the oldest tell of the mystical relationship of the tribe with the animal. Consideration of the concepts that arose on this basis, and then of “conceptual myths” (OM Freidenberg) about the totem-ancestor makes it possible to analyze their semantic-semantic fields. Moreover, we relied on the cultural-historical concept of G.G. Shpet, which allowed us to trace the evolution and subsequent transformation of the semantic-semantic fields of myth and thus reveal the algorithm for the formation of the mythopoetic tradition, its fading and eternal return. In the center of this work is semantic-semantic fields of myths about the Heavenly deer / moose cow, the cult which stretched over the more than six millennia. Observing the astral objects that served as a spatial-temporal reference point in the hunting and reindeer herding, primitive tribes felt their unity with the star ancestors. For example, two constellations of seven stars, which served the primitive hunters and reindeer breeders as a guide on the way, began to be identified in the russian North with the horned Reindeer Mother / moose cow and her daughter, from which the well-being of people depends. The attempt of comparative-historical reconstruction of semantic-semantic fields in article based on the material of myths about totems-forefathers made it possible to distinguish three main layers. These are 1) the energetically “charged” field of the myth of the shaman visiting the fantastic deer in labor, in which the religious and mythological consciousness received expression; 2) a semantic-semantic field of myths that belong to the artistic and heroic consciousness and narrate about a cultural hero who is ready for a feat for his family-tribal community; 3) the semantic-semantic field of the myth of the Horned mother-deer in the story of Ch. T. Aitmatova’s “White Steamboat (After the Tale)”, the rescue of orphans who became the ancestors of the Bugu tribe (‘deer’), and contains deep thoughts of the author, the bearer of cultural-historical and philosophicalcultural consciousness. As for the semantic-semantic fields, specific to the various interpretations of plots about a moose cow and a calf, close to a household fairy tale, a hunting story and a joke, so they correspond to the scientific and technical type of consciousness that has lost its connection with myth.
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Пономарева, Ирина, and Irina Ponomareva. "State: Truth and Myths." Journal of Russian Law 4, no. 12 (2016): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/22718.
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The article is devoted to the investigation of the category of truth and the category of myth in the sciences of state. The phenomenon of the state was analyzed as a specific sphere of the science integration. Despite the considerable achievements of the modern juridical science, many questions on the real essence of state and the methods of its research sill do not hane any answers. Modern explanatory state-legal theory has essential faults. Dealing with these questions, the author proposes their solving in the context of the informational and systematic approach. The author paid a particular attention to the problems and prospects of integration of the latest philosophical, epistemological and methodological achievements in the sciences of state. The author appeals to some works by Plato, who studied the problems of truth and myths. Relevant fragments of the dialogues were found in “Theaetetus”, “Republic” and “Statesman”. The article deals with Plato’s (mathematical) version of state organization which looked forward to ideas of modern natural sciences. Etymology of the concepts “truth” and “myth” was analyzed in present article.
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Balatov, S. A. "Tickets for the steamboat of modernity." Voprosy literatury, no. 6 (December 28, 2020): 126–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2020-6-126-143.
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The article examines the poetry collections printed by Voymega publishers in their new series ‘Pyroscaphe.’ Authors of the six collections published so far are young poets who participated in the literary seminar ‘The way to literature. Continued’ held by the Moscow Writers’ Union in 2019: M. Bessonov, D. Nozdryakov, B. Peygin, K. Tarayan, E. Uliankina, and V. Fedotov. Despite their very dissimilar poetics, the study of their works enables the critic to trace certain common features that define the new generation of poets. In particular, Batalov believes that each author tells their own myth. What unites those myths are the concept of the post-Soviet childhood (with all realia typical of the 1990s), the crossing of the border between life and death, and idealization of the provinces; it is also pointed out that each of the authors eventually arrives at the myth of Hades, the kingdom of shadows, where human souls are roaming in solitude. In conclusion, Batalov proposes to poets that if they cannot overcome the inertia of mythological thinking, they should at least mitigate it by addressing reality.
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Kiriakov, Oleksandr. "Specific Historical Circumstances of the Formation of the Boeotian Ethnic Group." Ethnic History of European Nations, no. 59 (2019): 4–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2518-1270.2019.59.01.
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The article devoted to the study of the formation of ethnic identity in Greek antiquity. The author focuses on the migration myth of the Boeotian ethnic group. This storytelling by Thucydides became a basis of the historiographical tradition. A lot of historians trusted to the migration myth like a real fact of past time. The author makes an attempt to reveal a real fact, which become a ground to the formation of migration myth of the Boeotian ethnic group.
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Stodnick, Jacqueline A. "Cynewulf as author: Medieval reality or modern myth?" Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 79, no. 3 (1997): 25–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/bjrl.79.3.5.
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Smole, Simon. "The anatomy of a myth." Maska 35, no. 200 (2020): 132–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/maska_00017_1.
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The text analyses myth-making practices in the literary field. Literary studies place certain authors on the right side of history, while delegitimising others and letting them slip into oblivion. The analysis of the formation of the literary cult of Danilo Kiš is placed in a wider context of the reproduction of author positions and writing styles that are not independent of power mechanisms. Based on the historical example of the polemic on plagiarism in the book A Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kiš, I analyse the formation of the literary field in Yugoslavia. This concrete example helps deconstruct the literary myth that allows us to see the subterranean forces in the field of culture and the specific role of literature in the ideological formation of society.
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Kozel, David. "Time Models in Myth and Music of the 20th Century." Musicological Annual 55, no. 1 (2019): 177–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/mz.55.1.177-194.
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The study deals with the relationship between myth and music of the 20th century. Myth is a structuring principle affecting music by remythologisation. The author analyses time models in mythological thinking in confrontation with new models of time in music. Myth and music contain a vertical and non-linear dimension with specific manifestation.
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Sljukic, Srdjan. "Smith’s understanding of relation between national identity and myth of election." Zbornik Matice srpske za drustvene nauke, no. 139 (2012): 283–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/zmsdn1239281s.
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The British scientist Anthony D. Smith, one of the best-known contemporary researchers of the problems of nation and nationalism, pays special attention to the issue of national identity. In this paper the author tries to present and evaluate Smith?s understanding of the relation between national identity and myth of election (as one of the most important national myths). At the end of the paper, the importance of Smith?s views for explanation and understanding of the contemporary Balkan conflicts is pointed out.
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Zvereva, Tatyana Vjacheslavovna. "“TWILIGHT OF GODS” IN SERGEY STRATANOVSKY'S POETIC BOOK “ANIMATION OF THE TAMBOURINE”." Yearbook of Finno-Ugric Studies 14, no. 4 (2020): 651–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2224-9443-2020-14-4-651-658.
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The paper analyses the book Animation of the Tambourine by Sergey Stratanovskii. The research focuses on the poetic interpretation of the Russian peoples’ myths (Karelian-Finnish, Mari, Mordovian, Udmurt, Chuvash, Mansi , Tatar, Bashkir, Buryat, Chukchee, Nivkhi, Yakut, etc.). Special emphasis is made on the analysis of the poetry which refers to Finno-Ugric legends and myths. The author considers that S. Stratanovskii not only educes the unique character of certain cultures but also reveals universal archetypical structures which moderate surface differences on the primal level. The main conflict of the book is the clash between heathen beliefs and Christian faith which replaced them. Most texts deflect S. Stratanovskii’s ‘basic myth’, i.e. the ‘civilization myth’ about the Teacher’s arrival. Reference to fiction pretexts ( Calevala , A. Blok, K. Zhakov and Y. Rytkheu, etc. ) play an important role in sense making. Text analysis lets the author draw the conclusion of conventionality of artistic time continuum which correlates with past and present as well which means the hic et ubique situation rather than a given period in human history. Animation of the Tambourine raises a most important problem for the present-day Russia, namely the problem of interrelationship between the Russian and indigenous ethnic groups’ cultures. The fact ascending to folklore - fundamental variability of the book - is noted as there are a few copies of Animation of the Tambourine written by the author himself which differ in number of texts and genre composition.
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Menezes, Luiz Maurício Bentim da Rocha. "Myth in Plato's philosophy." Investigação Filosófica 10, no. 1 (2019): 07. http://dx.doi.org/10.18468/if.2019v10n1.p07-13.
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<p>The aim of this paper is analysis the myth in Plato’s work based on the paper of Ludwig Edelstein. In his work, Edelstein presents to us the reason why Plato uses the myth and the function it plays in his philosophy. The author thus contributes to the development of thought on the subject and provides a lever for later studies on the myth in Plato. Finally, we will present a critical conclusion on the subject.</p>
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Williams-Thorpe, Olwen. "Reply to ‘Megalithic transport and territorial markers: evidence from the Channel Islands’ by Mark Patton." Antiquity 67, no. 254 (1993): 120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00045130.
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The surviving author of ‘The myth of long-distance megalith transport’ (ANTIQUITY 65: 64–73) stresses the support given by megalithic sites in the Channel Islands to the exposure of this persistent myth.
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Wróblewski, Maciej. "Funkcje realizmu w fantastyce dla młodego czytelnika." Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka, no. 28 (February 19, 2017): 121–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/pspsl.2016.28.6.
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In the article the author examines fantastic novels by contemporary Polish writers (Andrzej Maleszka, Paweł Beręsowicz, Rafał Kosik and other) for young readers in a cultural context. In his essay he uses two well-known cultural categories “myth” and “magic” to his analysis of fantastic novels. According to the author, the myth and magic have two important functions in fantastic children’s literature. First, they lead young readers to knowledge about the world and depict different, complex phenomena of cultural dimension. Second, the myth and magic create a particular space (what “engulfs” young readers) of play and entertainment. Moreover, the myth and magic attract young readers to fabulous worlds including the elements of realistic literary convention. Thereby the writers increase their credibility among the youth. A “myth-magic” in the presented word of contemporary Polish fantastic novels assures balance between incredible entertainment represented by wizards, witches, dragons and the real world with characters having various digital devices within reach.
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Spychała, Jarosław Marek. "Herakles, Jezus Chrystus i Lord Vader na rozstajnych drogach. O etycznym przesłaniu metody LEGO-LOGOS." Filozofia Publiczna i Edukacja Demokratyczna 2, no. 1 (2018): 48–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/fped.2013.2.1.1.
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The article is devoted to the myth of ‘Hercules at the crossroads’ and its ethical aspects. The myth was created in circles of Pythagoreans, and was kind of incentives to the right – according to the Pythagoreans – way of life. The echoes of the myth we can find in Plato’s philosophy, the life of Christ, as well as in popular movies such as Star Wars or The Matrix. The author of article adapts the myth of Hercules in their philosophical workshops ΛΕΓΩ-ΛΟΓΟΣ (LEGO–LOGOS). During the workshops ΛΕΓΩ-ΛΟΓΟΣ, participants read the texts of various philosophers: Plato’s, Aristotle’s, Cicero’s, Marcus Aurelius’, and later thinkers’: Leonardo Da Vinci’s, Descartes’ and others’. All texts are selected by a philosophical key, with a strong ethical message in the background built on the canvas of the myth of Hercules at the crossroads. This idea is presented by the author in order to illustrate its meaning with the help of classical philosophy and modern, philosophically saturated movies.
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Kulikova, О. V. "The media myth creation in the anthropocentric dimension (the english social and political discourse studies)." Philology at MGIMO 7, no. 2 (2021): 53–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2410-2423-2021-2-26-53-63.
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The paper considers linguistic and discursive features of anthropocentric myth creation in the social and political media. Myth creation in the social and political context is viewed as creation of social and political myths correlating with real and fictional events, public persons or social and political phenomena. The author brings into light the role of the media audience as one of the leading factors ensuring successful creation of the media mythological image appealing predominantly to the emotional sphere in the mass recipient’s consciousness. Strange as it might seem, the anthropocentric mythological discourse demonstrates the minimal amount of explicit emotiveness, which creates conditions for independent evaluation of the information by the audience itself. Narrative is considered to be the basic myth creation format. It is represented as a series of stories about the myth creation object. Given the diachronic aspect of myth creation and its chronotope which can span quite a long period of time, it is suggested to speak of the narrative continuum focused on a media person who is in the centre of public attention. It is pointed out that media myth creation takes place on the basis of implications which appear in the process of reception of factual information by the media audience. The interaction of verbal and non-verbal means typical of the media fosters creation of a full-bodied anthroponymic mythological image, which calls for a special study.
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Waring, M. Barton, and Laurence B. Siegel. "“The Myth of the Absolute-Return Investor”: Author Response." Financial Analysts Journal 62, no. 4 (2006): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.2469/faj.v62.n4.4180.
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Waring, M. Barton, and Laurence B. Siegel. "“The Myth of the Absolute-Return Investor”: Author Response." Financial Analysts Journal 62, no. 6 (2006): 11–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.2469/faj.v62.n6.4345.
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Schmukler, Ricardo. "Myths as errors and inventions: the shadow of tradition in pa praxis." International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior 21, no. 3 (2018): 158–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijotb-04-2018-0044.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the impossible segregation of founding myths from any actual understanding of life in common, the public good and PA theorizing. The notion of shadow as used by Robert Denhardt to designate the “other side” of rational motives in organizing fits well with the approach to PA myths here intended, in consonance with the theme of unity in apparent opposites and the “intensely meaningful acts of heroes and heroines” (Denhardt, 1981, p. xii). Finally, the questionable opposition between logos and myth will be reviewed along the discussion of the sacred and the secret in PA tradition. Design/methodology/approach The author examines PA myths and discusses conjectures and explanations. Findings PA founding myths are not false believes or illusionary entities but genuine precursors and effective backstage arrangers of theory and praxis. The processes of languaging, musicking and organizing, basic human traits and fundamental events for human life to occur and get structured as it does, cannot prescind from them. Myths are intertwined with reasons and desires, inseparable, coexisting in the unified and pluriversal forms of doing, knowing and valuing that configure human life. Nothing different corresponds to PA and its myths as key components of the processes of thought, action and judgment that constitute the public domain. Originality/value PA myths persist not only through the ages of the administrative state but through the transformations of thoughts also occurred in each theorist’s own life experience. At different times, situations and conditions all of us – the author guess – have addressed this or that PA myth for motives worth deserving the reiterated discussion. It was never the same discussion; it could not have been, it is not, and it will not ever be.
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IMBIEROWICZ, AGNIESZKA. "The Polish Mother on the defensive? The transformation of the myth and its impact on the motherhood of Polish women." Journal of Education Culture and Society 3, no. 1 (2020): 140–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.15503/jecs20121.140.153.
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The subject of this presentation is the attempt to defi ne and to present the origins, socio-cultural content and the evolution of The Polish Mother myth, present in the polish national consciousness. The author tries to show how this myth was born, what functions it fulfi lled and what forms it took in the changing historical and social reality, from the moment of loss of independence, through a period of real socialism, until the present day. The impact of this myth in the lives of real women and their motherhood is taken into consideration. Then, the author comparing the results of the latest polish sociological rese-arches on the family and its transformation, and transformation of value systems together with theories about the specifi cs of life in the period of postmodernity, wonders whether it’s time to deconstruct the myth of The Polish Mother, because it does not fi t the conditions of today’s world, which is characterized, above all, by the apotheosis of individuality, self--realization and freedom, or perhaps in polish society there is still strong traditionalism in thinking about motherhood, and the myth of The Polish Mother is still alive?
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Mekhtiev, Vurgun Georgievich. "The semantics of Lermontov's poetic myth of the Demon N. S. Leskov’s “The Islanders”." Litera, no. 3 (March 2021): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8698.2021.3.35024.
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The subject of this research is the negative-axiological, satirical layers of the novel &ldquo;The Islanders&rdquo;, associated with the image of the demonic character, which M. Y. Lermontov turned into the archetype and poetic myth in the Russian literature. The object of this research is the stylistic techniques and ideological motifs of N. S. Leskov underlying &ldquo;desacralization&rdquo; of the romantic myth. The author meticulously examines the following aspects: 1) role of Lermontov's poem &ldquo;The Demon&rdquo; and romantic poetry of the 1840s in creation of the myth of the demonic character; 2) semantic deformations that led Leskov to wander from the conventional meanings of the myth ; 3) satirical modus used as the key technique in creation of the the image of Istomin. Particular attention is given to Leskov&rsquo;s satire in its function of &ldquo;recoding&rdquo; of the myth. The conclusion is made that the image of the painter Istomin is appointed with the task to dispel the romantic myth. Therefore, the axiological-emotional lexis, as well as elements of satire that reflect the point of view of the &ldquo;subjective&rdquo; narrative are arrayed around him. All of that imparts semantic transparency to the character, which contradicts the &ldquo;mysterious code&rdquo; of the myth of romanticism. The author&rsquo;s special contribution consists in the establishment of correlation between the myth of about the demon and the myth of Prometheus, which is important for assessing the complexity and multifacetedness of the semantic core of the phenomenon under review. The novelty of this research lies in revelation of underlying motif of the satirical style of N. S. Leskov. Its point is not to create a &ldquo;myth about the myth&rdquo; or an &ldquo;anti-myth&rdquo;; the novel forms the &ldquo;non-myth&rdquo; to achieve complete elimination of the literary myth of the demonic character. The writer uses satire for typification, rather than individualization of the character.
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Alcock, John. "The myth of genetic determinism – again." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22, no. 5 (1999): 885–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x99222200.
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Lifelines mounts a vigorous attack on sociobiology on the utterly mistaken grounds that sociobiologists believe that genes single-handedly determine social behavior. The many previously published rebuttals to this pernicious criticism are conveniently ignored by the author.
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Kheifets, B. "BRIC: Myth of Reality?" World Economy and International Relations, no. 9 (2010): 72–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.20542/0131-2227-2010-9-72-80.
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The article analyzes the main features of BRIC's development with regard to the intensifying criticism towards the existing format of this intergovernmental institution. Special emphasis is laid upon Russia's role in BRIC, as well as upon consequences of the 2008–2009 global crisis for each BRIC country. The author draws a conclusion that BRIC as a new informal institute is a reality of international economic and political relations and is of undoubted interest for all its members. For Russia it is important to use the BRIC to advance new international initiatives, as well as for exchange of economic development experience on many key issues.
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Vasiljeva, Ekaterina V. "METHODS AND TECHNIQUES OF MYTHOLOGIZATION IN S. RUSHDIE’S NOVEL ‘THE GROUND BENEATH HER FEET’." Вестник Пермского университета. Российская и зарубежная филология 13, no. 1 (2021): 73–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/2073-6681-2021-1-73-82.
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The study is devoted to the analysis of methods and techniques of mythologization in the novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet written by the British author of Indian origin S. Rushdie. The paper explores the narrative organization of the novel, in which images and motifs of ancient mythology are used as a special code for artistic interpretation of European culture of the second half of the 20th century. The article examines the artistic reality of the novel, which combines the modern history of rock culture and classical mythology of Ancient Greece. S. Rushdie addresses problems related to the nature of creativity using as the main plot-forming motifs such mythologemes as the love story of Orpheus and Eurydice, the myth of alldevouring Tartarus, twin myths. The study shows that a typical technique for creating expressive threedimensional multivocal images in Rushdie's novel is a combination of real facts from the world of rock culture and mythological allusions, intertwining, overlapping and collision of various motifs and plots of Greek mythology, which, taken all together, generates the original artistic reality. The article analyzes how the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice acquires a cultural dimension in the novel and what techniques are used by the author to activate the extensive cultural memory of the Orphic myth. The concentration and interpretation of iconic images and motifs of ancient mythology are used in the novel for artistic analysis of the state of culture in the second half of the 20th century and of its attempts to counter the catastrophic tendencies of destruction and death of the modern civilization.
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Matveenko, Valentin. "“Trustworthiness is the Foundation of Right”: Confucian Trustworthiness as an Existential Principle of Japanese Political Culture of the Nara Period." Sotsiologicheskoe Obozrenie / Russian Sociological Review 18, no. 3 (2019): 77–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/1728-192x-2019-3-77-115.
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The author attempts to analyze several categories of the Japanese political culture of the Nara period of the 7th–8th centuries AD, such as harmony (wa 和), and righteousness (gi 義). The author supposes that the existential disposition of trust forms the basis for such categories. In Confucian tradition, this disposition is expressed through trustworthiness (sin 信). The article begins with an overview of the Japanese political culture of the Nara period in order to clarify the place of wa, gi, and sin in Japanese political thought. The author pays close attention to the roles of language and myth in Japanese culture as well. It is argued that political culture is a sort of superstructure for language, which is a substructure. Since language is the logos of culture as a whole, it is possible to identify the existential meanings of categories of political culture that are ontologically rooted in language. The author claims that the patterns of political thinking in Japanese tradition are reflected in myth. In order to prove this, the authors offers an analysis of the use of such characters as wa 和 and gi 義 in the Japanese chronicles Kojiki and Nihongi, highlighting the variety of their meanings and the close connection with trustworthiness as their basis.
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Skočir, Marija. "From Cheap Films to Museum Collections: The Author’s Significance for the Magnum Archive - Archiving of Invasion 68 by Josef Koudelka." Cabinet, Vol. 2, no. 2 (2017): 82–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.47659/m3.082.art.
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The article is based on an insight into the workflows of the Paris agency Magnum Photos. The theoretical framework introduces a modernist model of the author’s concept, which corresponds to Magnum’s type of photographer, based on the specific historical circumstances of the agency’s founding and its modus operandi. The concept of the author as a heroic individual with a unique photographic career and biography is in a reciprocal relationship with i.e. the “myth” which, as the latest study of Magnum’s history has shown, is maintained by the agency throughout the seven decades of its existence. This myth does not exist without the “author”, while the agency does not exist without the “myth”, therefore, according to Foucault, neither the “death of the author” in a Barthesian sense, nor his replacement with the “author’s function” is possible. The author, who makes exclusive decisions regarding production, distribution, use and archiving of his photographs, affects all the processes of the agency’s work. This becomes less ambiguous in the question of the importance of Magnum’s archives, which can be claimed to have a broader relevance for social history. The archiving practice is described on the example of Josef Koudelka’s Invasion 68 series, which, with its unconventionality, shows the challenges of archiving and explains the author’s original solutions. Keywords: analogue recovery, contact sheet, Josef Koudelka’s “Invasion 68”, Magnum Photos, photographer as the author
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Utkin, Abbot Vitaly. "Historiosophic Constructions of Yu.F. Samarin: Literary Myth of Rostov Bishop Feodor." Almanac “Essays on Conservatism” 54 (May 20, 2019): 247–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.24030/24092517-2019-0-2-247-267.
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The author of the article undertakes reconstructing the origin of the literary myth of Feodor, the Bishop of Rostov, that symbolized the first attempt in the 12th century to establish in North-Eastern Russia (“Rus’”) the archdiocese that was independent of Kiev in the context of Yu.F. Samarin’s historiosophic views. The author believes that this literary myth was created by the Bishop of Suzdal Dionysius. It was entered into the Laurentian Codex as part of the struggle against Archimandrite Mikhail (“Mitaya”) who was one of the candidates to become Moscow Metropolite after the death of Saint Alexius and was supported by Dmitry Donskoy. In connection with the story of Bishop Feodor the author also analyzes ancient Russian disputes on fasting that is viewed by the prevailing historiographic paradigm as important marker of dual faith that allegedly existed in Russia. The author proves the Orthodox character of the views of the Prince Andrey Bogolyubsky. According to the author Samarin’s statements on the absence in ancient Russia of heathenry serious resistance against Christianity are still relevant.
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Balle, Thorstein Johannes. "Myten om Grundtvigs indflydelse på den danske folkeskole." Grundtvig-Studier 65, no. 1 (2015): 65–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/grs.v65i1.20938.
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Myten om Grundtvigs indflydelse på den danske folkeskoleThorstein Johannes BalleThe Myth of Grundtvig’s Impact on the Danish Public SchoolIt is often said that the ideologies of N.F.S. Grundtvig deeply impacted the development of Danish society and the identities of Danish people. This article deals with a specific part of Grundtvig’s thinking and how it affected the formation of the Danish public school (the so-called “folkeskole”) which figures into societal and individual notions of Danishness. By interviewing twenty influential figures who have had central roles in discussions about the Danish school, the author observes that conceptions of—rather than facts about—Grundtvig’s ideas and their influence come to dominate. The author proposes that these conceptions might be thought of collectively as a “myth” because they are based on a pre-understanding or ideological tendency that rules society, rather than any direct knowledge about Grundtvig, his thoughts, or his writings. The author discusses the power of this myth and the role it plays in how the school leaders and members see its role and function in society. His conclusion is that the myth of Grundtvig’s impact on the development and daily life of the Danish folkeskole has a greater impact on the development and daily life of the Danish folkeskole than Grundtvig’s actual ideas, as recorded in his writings.
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Rudnytska, A. R., and F. İ. Arnaut. "Change of mythological motifs in the chain "folklore-mythology-literature" (on the example of myths “King Oedipus”, “Rustem and Suhrab” and Orhan Pamuk's novel “The Red-Haired Woman”)." Science and Education a New Dimension IX(253), no. 45 (2021): 51–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.31174/send-hs2021-253ix45-12.
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There are many works devoted to the study of the evolution of literary motifs common for a folklore and myths “King Oedipus” and “Rustem and Suhrab”. However, there are quite a few thorough studies on their use in the literature of the postmodern era. In the postmodern period, the concept of "originality" completely disappears, which makes the reference of the author of a novel to other works of oral and written literature, in particular myths, quite frequent. Due to the fact that the mythological motif borrowed by the author undergoes changes in the process of interpretation, there is a threat that the myth will acquire a new form, which may lead to its complete remoteness from the original source. This article is devoted to the study of the process of deformation of such motifs in the chain "folklore-mythologyliterature" and determining the stage at which the myths are located. Prospects for further research lie in the analysis of the functioning of the motives we have studied in other novels written in the postmodern era
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Akhyat Sulkhan, Khumaid. "Mitos Good Influencer dan Politik citra Awkarin dalam Pusaran Demonstrasi Mahasiswa Menolak RKUHP." Jurnal Komunikasi 15, no. 1 (2020): 19–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.20885/komunikasi.vol15.iss1.art2.
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This paper discusses how Awkarin reproduces the myth of good influencers as part of her political image in the student action against the RKUHP on September 24, 2019. With the semiotic method developed by Roland Barthes, the author examines the meaning of denotation and connotation in Awkarin's Instagram photos that record her involvement in the action at Senayan. As a result, the authors found that Awkarin built the image of an influencer who cares about social and political issues and mobilizes all their potential to help the public. However, the myth of the good influencer Awkarin is problematic, because she only involves herself in issues that are popular in society without going into further detail
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Chiriţoiu, Daniel Alexandru. "THE ‘MYTH’ OF THE PHALANX: BATTLE FORMATIONS AND CULTURAL INTERACTION." Cambridge Classical Journal 66 (March 4, 2020): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1750270520000032.
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The article will discuss the importance of the phalanx as a way to point out cultural links and cultural competition between Greeks and Romans. It will argue that there is a wider discourse in military literature on the phalanx as a cultural commodity, by both historians and authors of ‘military manuals’, each author building on the arguments of the other, and that the Taktika of Aelian and Arrian are a key link in understanding this discourse in the context of the second century AD.
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Kharitonov, M. S. "In reading Don Quixote." Voprosy literatury, no. 3 (June 22, 2021): 252–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2021-3-252-261.
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The article is devoted to close reading of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha. The author supplies his literary-critical and existential comments to various episodes in the novel. He discusses the novel’s relation to myth and parody as well as the possibility of such an interpretation of ‘quixotism’ and statements that would resonate with the present-day realia. Reading the book again, the critic recognises it as the epitome of parody. Thomas Mann referred to parody as a myth (imitation, following in somebody’s footsteps). Here, parody gave rise to a new myth. The scene of the book burning would probably read more interesting if one had the knowledge of those books and could perceive the poignancy of this highly relevant intimation, this literary jibe — to the fullest extent, as we do while reading certain jibes in the modern press. But for this to happen, Cervantes will need his own Bakhtin. The critic suggests that Cervantes’ idea of the book underwent changes in the process of the novel’s writing, and so did the writer’s self-awareness: the author in the second part is noticeably different from the author in the first.
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Gromkowska-Melosik, Agnieszka. "Kopciuszek: zagubiony szklany pantofelek i metamorfozy kobiecości." Studia Edukacyjne, no. 46 (January 19, 2020): 63–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/se.2017.46.5.
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The article is devoted to the reconstruction of Cinderella myth in contemporary culture in the relation to the changing concepts of femininity. The Author takes into account several contexts of this issue. First, it can be understood in the terms of life as a lottery thanks to which in one moment a person is famous or rich (e.g. thanks to television success). Also, the author analyses the Cinderella in a light of sociological theory of competitive mobility. Besides sociotherapeutic Cinderella complex is analysed as well as feminist interpretation of Cinderella are reconstructed. The different versions of Cinderella fable are confronted with the various kinds of relations between women and men in contemporary. The Author shows also the examples of using the Cinderella myth in commercial advertising as well as politics and economy (Cinderella industry).
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McConnell, James V. "Psychology of the Scientist: LII. John B. Watson: Man and Myth." Psychological Reports 56, no. 3 (1985): 683–705. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1985.56.3.683.
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The author describes how he learned the “inside” story of John B. Watson's early studies on sexual arousal, and how later discovery of the actual equipment Watson used confirmed what the author had previously heard from one of Watson's associates. The author then traces the history of the behavioral solution to the mind-body problem from Watson through Skinner to the cognitive behaviorists. The author concludes by offering his own behavioral solution to this problem, based in part on recent studies of hemispheric laterality.
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Omelchenko, Victoria. "ON THE QUESTION OF MODERN MYTHS. POLITICAL MYTH AS APPLIED MYTHOLOGY." Sophia. Human and Religious Studies Bulletin 17, no. 1 (2021): 44–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/sophia.2021.17.9.
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In this article, the author argues that philosophy is a "methodology" of understanding. Hermeneutics is the theory and methodology of interpretation especially the interpretation philosophical texts. H.-G. Gadamer asserted that methodical contemplation is opposite to experience and reflection. We can reach the truth only by understanding or mastering our experience. According to H.-G. Gadamer, our understanding is not fixed but rather is changing and always indicating new perspectives. The most important thing is to unfold the nature of individual understanding. Hermeneutics is not just "art", but the methodology of "understanding." Accordingly, philosophy is the methodology of understanding and interpretation. Philosophy is a science with its own subject and object. Legal laws are not absolute, therefore they should be interpreted. It is the task of philosophy. Philosophy speaks the language of concepts and evidence. Concepts should be specific, clear, defined. Philosophical work is the formulation of concepts. On the basis of such understanding of philosophy, we will now study the question of "political myth". Scientific exploration is devoted to the study of the concept of "myth" and identifying the essential features of the "political myth". What is "political myth" of modernity? What language is he speaking? What appealed? In this intelligence proved that "political myth" is a communication system that distorts reality. It is established that every "political myth" has its own shelf life and the boundaries of its interpretation. It is confirmed that "political myth" is one of the most effective tools to meet political goals, such as achievement of power and its legitimation. It is proved that political discourse is irrational, and political speeches appeal to the argument of sensuous, not rational. "Political myth" models own "world picture", which is a simplified, taken for granted, self-evident. It is proved that the ability of critical judgment, ability to work with information and qualitative analysis from the mouth of the unbiased media and the expert environment, though not a panacea, but partially negate the "force," "political myth". Myth has an irrational basis, and controls the emotions with the help of stereotypes. The myth creates its own reality and creates the effect of solidarity of the masses. The essence of "political myth" is that he always addressed to specific audiences, takes into account the peculiarities of mentality. A dominant position in the "political myth" plays a stereotype. Any stereotype is formed on the generalizations. What is the difference between the stereotypes and myths? "A stereotype is a label", which is the context, but it there is no story. That is, the stereotype is a form, and the myth is content history. In addition, in this exploration of the role and value of such concepts as "political magic" and "political spectacle" in the context of "political mythology" as applied mythology.
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Pozharov, Aleksey I. "Contemporary “Postapocalypse” as a Form of Eschatological Myth Represented in the «S.T.A.L.K.E.R.» Computer Game." Observatory of Culture, no. 5 (October 28, 2014): 39–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/2072-3156-2014-0-5-39-43.
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Discusses the phenomenon of “postapocalypse” or a modern form of the eschatological myth representation in mass culture. The author analyses the structure of the myth implemented in the computer game and argues that contemporary culture endlessly reproducing different scenarios of the last day of the Universe is not able to answer what a changed world is to become after passing through a series of apocalyptic catastrophes.
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Tengan, Alexis B. "Dagara bagr: ritualising myth of social foundation." Africa 69, no. 4 (1999): 595–633. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1160877.
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AbstractThe article explores the ritualising processes of a myth of social foundation, the bagr myth, among the Dagara of north-west Ghana and south-west Burkina Faso. It describes how rituals form part of the daily life of the Dagara and shows how bagr rituals form a series of private and public events lasting the whole year or the bagr season. The article describes the social life in the neighbourhood within which most ritual activities take place and outlines the historical events which are possibly responsible for the creation of the bagr myth itself as a narrative text. The rest of the article is devoted to the ritualising processes of the bagr myth. Much of the article, particularly this section, is structured around the author's own experiences and participant observation of ritual activities. The aim is to show why the public rituals of bagr are not about initiating particular individuals into a secret society or lodges but are about how Dagara society constitutes itself. The day and night ritual narration of the bagr myth involving different segments of society and described in detail in the second half of the article seems to justify this claim. The article includes excerpts from bagr narratives recorded by the author to illustrate how the text is being constructed and the sort of information it is intended to communicate.
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Zhuravel, Olga D. "The Autocratic Myth in the Late Journalism of Valentin Rasputin: The “Russian Idea” in an Eschatological Context." Vestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology 19, no. 6 (2020): 70–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2020-19-6-70-87.
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The article is devoted to research of features of mythological model, which is reflected in the late journalism of Valentin Rasputin. The complex of interconnected myths is revealed, their historical roots are traced. The eschatological myth is considered; the author shows that the messianic idea of Russia’s unique role in the world is accompanied by the construction of the enemy image. Images of internal enemies (liberals) and external enemies (Europe and America) are demonized. The eschatological experiences of the crisis moments of “adjustment period” and the beginning of the 21st century are accompanied by utopian nostalgia for the “Golden Age”, which the writer saw in the historical background of Russia, particularly in the Soviet era. The article considers Rasputin’s utopian idea of power and the government leader. Denying liberal values, the writer asserts the idea of a strong ruler, whose main function is to “fulfill God’s laws”. Stalin is recognized as an example of a leader who expressed the «national spirit». Rasputin’s mythology has common features with the concept of “Third Rome” and with some categories of Old Russian autocratic ideology of the 16th century, as well as with the ideas of Old Believers. The article traces the ways of constructing the author’s myth. The writer’s mythology is based on non-critical use of concepts and myths and is based on archetypes of national mythology. Besides, the writer constructs the myth with the help of language tools, creating neologisms and using estimation vocabulary. Rasputin's mythological model reflects the conceptual core of conservative ideology.
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Bazhenova, E. A. "On the Authenticity of Protagoras’ Myth and its Role in Plato’s Protagoras." Siberian Journal of Philosophy 17, no. 1 (2019): 176–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/2541-7517-2019-17-1-176-184.
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The article discusses the thesis according to which Protagoras’ myth in the dialogue of the same name by Plato originates in its core from the historical Protagoras. Although the author aligns with this thesis’ supporters, the analysis of the myth in the context of the dialogue as a whole, including dramatic features of the latter, allows her to presume that the myth is intended not so much to convey the views of the famous sophist as to contribute to the creation of the satirical image of his through which Plato ridicules Protagoras’ philosophical and pedagogical ambitions.
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Ситнов, Алексей, and Alyeksyey Sitnov. "Audit of the XXI Century — a Myth or Reality." Auditor 4, no. 2 (2018): 16–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/article_5a8d644a3b4702.36687324.
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Th is article fi rst disclosed and systematized the contemporary challenges presented to the audit in the information society, i.e. the society of the XXI century. Th e author off ered his views on the development of methodology and audit tools meet the current needs of social development. In the study the author outlined his point of view on the problem facing the audit as a science and as a professional activity.
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Phillips, Thomas. "An Absent Author? Myth in Augusto Roa Bastos's Yo el Supremo." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 88, no. 6 (2011): 695–709. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/bhs.2011.37.
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Pimonov, V. I. "THE RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX AS A MATHEMATICAL ALLEGORY." Izvestiya of the Samara Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Social, Humanitarian, Medicobiological Sciences 22, no. 75 (2020): 123–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.37313/2413-9645-2020-22-75-123-128.
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Object the article: The riddle of the Sphinx in the Oedipus myth. Subject of the article: The riddle of the Sphinx as a mathematical allegory. Purpose of research: The author argues that the interpretation of the riddle of the Sphinx on a meta-linguistic level as an allegory of the mathematical notions (e.g. triangle) reveals the semantic parallels between the number code of the riddle and the number symbolism in the Oedipus myth. Research metods: Philological research methods applied. Results: The riddle of the Sphinx is a mathematical allegory as it is a narrative in which a concrete fictional character - a creature changing the number of feet - is used to convey abstract mathematical notions. The incorporation of the riddle into the myth in the post-Homer versions resulted in an “accommodation” of the literary story of Oedipus to the riddle by adding the images related to the number “three” (third day, crossroads, the forked motif in the double goad, “three-footed” Oedipus with a cane). Field of application: Literary studies. Conclusion: The interpretation of the riddle of the Sphinx as a mathematical allegory underscores the significance of the number motif in the riddle and myth. The semantic harmonization between the mathematical notions conveyed in the riddle and the number images in the literary versions of the legend, reflect a deep structure of the Oedipus myth. The author is indebted to Oleg B. Zaslavsky, Svetlana Gracheva and Dan F. Whitman for assistance and helpful advice
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Mayer, Jeffrey S. "Re-Membering Catholicity: Higher Education, Racial Justice, and the Spirituality of the Posthuman University." Religions 12, no. 8 (2021): 645. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12080645.
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In the reinscribing of white supremacy in the United States, the contemporary university as a place of exclusion presents a problem of religion. Approaching religion as “the search for depth” and addressing the “techno-myths” of betterment, longevity, and the rituals of enacting these myths that capture today’s social imaginaries, this paper proposes an alternative to religious faith in “rising” and the rhetoric of the contemporary American technocratic-meritrocratic paradigm. Adopting the posthumanist methodologies of reflexivity and diffraction, the author argues for an embodied catholicity of the university as a community, an open system rather than a pre-formed locus to which racially minoritized students are “added” or “included”. In advancing the co-creativity of a Catholic-pluriversal university via an ethic of love and care, the author presents a Christian spirituality that is itself a technology that offers the hope of enacting a more life-giving congruence between the sacred and the secular than the myth of Manifest Destiny and the racialized violence that is the continued manifestation of that mythos. Embodied in the posthuman mystic’s practices of “re-memory,” the author presents Christianity as a performative-pluralistic religion of evolution, one of common action with the potential to draw into something new the energies of creativity in today’s university.
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Kiriakov, O. "THEBES IN THE BOIOTIANS’ MYTHOLOGICAL NARRATIVE." Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. History, no. 143 (2019): 18–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/1728-2640.2019.143.4.
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he article is devoted to the study of the Boiotians’ myths. These legendary stories were a basis of the imagined past. So myths had formed the mentality of the Ancient Greek society. The main for Boiotian people was a myth about the own migration. We can find this tale in the “History” by Thucydides. But it was only a later retelling of the myths of the epic text. The first version of the tale we need to look for in the epic texts such as Homer’s “Iliad” and Hesiod’s poems. So myth about migration of Boiotians was the basis of the imagined past of the people of this region. Main role of the tale was played by Boiotians, who became eponym of the people. The author tried to recover myths about the polis of Thebes. Differences between regional and polis tales may answer the question: what was a real role played by polis of Thebes in the imagined past of Boiotian people. Ancient Greeks created a great number of myths about Thebes. A lot of these tales were a basis for Attic classical tragedy. But none of the earliest mythological narratives of Thebes intersect with myth of the Boiotians origin. The biggest polis of the region didn’t play any role at the imagining past of the Boiotian people. But imagined past could be changed. One of the examples we can find at Corinna’s poems. This source told us that first king of Thebes was a son of Boiotos. It was the newer tradition than an epic migration story. This tale appeared at the period of Thebes’ hegemony. And it has sense only as propaganda of polis of Thebes in the region. Mythological origin genealogy was softly rewriting of the imagined past. A new reality was created by using a poem in ritual. So, Thebes had a political motive to change imagine past and used for that soft mythical genealogy. The repeating through the ritual should have justified this new tradition. This research is based on the ancient written sources and academic studies. The article is an attempt to understand how myths were created and influenced the life of Ancient Greeks.
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Prozhiko, Galina Semyonovna. "The Myth of the Authenticity of the Wartime Newsreels." Journal of Flm Arts and Film Studies 5, no. 3 (2013): 22–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/vgik5322-32.
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With all the debate on the accuracy and forging of documentary footage, the basic assumption is the possibility of an absolute truthfulness as an inherent quality of this way of fixing reality. The author questions the validity of this aesthetic myth.