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Jorgensen, Dan. "Placing the Past and Moving the Present." Culture 10, no. 2 (2021): 47–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1081338ar.

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A striking feature of myth among the Telefolmin of Papua New Guinea is the way in which narrative events are situated in known and named places. Myth’s inscription on the landscape contributes to ritual’s evocative power, but, beyond this, it gives myth a bridgehead in the everyday world that invites a mythic construction of contemporary events. Using the visit of Papua New Guinea’s Governor General as an example, I argue that Telefolmin were able to effectively mobilize the power of the sacred site of Telefolip — and its mythic associations — in novel historical circumstances, a possibility e

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Mills, Antonia. "Apache Mythic Present:Thunder Rides a Black Horse: Mescalero Apaches and the Mythic Present." Anthropology Humanism 20, no. 2 (1995): 179–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ahu.1995.20.2.179.

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Hansen, William. "Mythic gaps." Nordlit, no. 33 (November 16, 2014): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.3185.

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Different kinds of omissions sometimes occur, or are perceived to occur, in traditional narratives and in tradition-inspired literature. A familiar instance is when a narrator realizes that he or she does not fully remember the story that he or she has begun to tell, and so leaves out part of it, which for listeners may possibly result in an unintelligible narrative. But many instances of narrative gap are not so obvious. From straightforward, objective gaps one can distinguish less-obvious subjective gaps: in many cases narrators do not leave out anything crucial or truly relevant from their

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Gautam, Mani Bhadra. "Mythic of Newar Arts, Literature, Tales, Oral Histories and Rituals in Patan and Kritipur: Cultural Study." Pragya Darshan प्रज्ञा दर्शन 5, no. 2 (2023): 42–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/pdmdj.v5i2.59602.

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Mythic realities in Newar arts and cultural representations of the socio-cultural activities noted in the folklores, tales, practices and performances in Patan and Kirtipur are mysteries. Ritual activities like Lakhe Dances, Jatras and other rituals are related with the historical events, facts and imaginary-mysterious beliefs. Myth is an excavating tool for meaning making of the artistic, cultural and historical sayings noted in the tales that can catch out the themes observing the coverage of crafts in applying the artistic and literary techniques. Newar Arts, Newa Dance, Dhime Dance, Lakhe

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Lang, Nancy, and Claire R. Farrer. "Thunder Rides a Black Horse: Mescalero Apaches and the Mythic Present." MELUS 23, no. 2 (1998): 203. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/468020.

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Caliva, Kathryn. "The Past Made Present: Mythic References and Pragmatic Effects in Sappho." American Journal of Philology 140, no. 3 (2019): 415–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ajp.2019.0026.

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Campbell, Gregory R., and Claire R. Farrer. "Thunder Rides a Black Horse: Mescalero Apaches and the Mythic Present." Ethnohistory 43, no. 1 (1996): 195. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/483359.

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Teampău, Radu. "Anti-theatre and Mythic Horizon." Theatrical Colloquia 7, no. 2 (2017): 183–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/tco-2017-0018.

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Abstract The present paper starts, in its analysis, with the attempt to identify possible connections between the mythical universe and Eugène Ionesco’s play The Chairs. Noticing that the definition given to Ionesco’s theatre as a theatre of the absurd is outdated and that alternative concepts, such as parabolic drama, are already being proposed, we examine Ionesco’s theatricality from the perspective of the anti-theatre. Also, due to the fact that theatre is defined, by the representatives of political theatre, as ritual, we make a few considerations upon Ionesco’s anti-theatre viewed as anti

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ZIN, Mnemo. "Myth-making in Everyday Life: The ‘West’ in Childhood Memories and (Post)socialist Futures." Zeitschrift für Pädagogik Beiheft, no. 1 (March 6, 2023): 215–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3262/zpb2301215.

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Although postsocialism is often discussed in terms of revisiting and dispelling the myths of the socialist past, this article suggests that it is more productive to understand postsocialism in terms of different kinds of mythic constructions – ‘myths from the future’, namely the myths of the capitalist West and East. Situating our research in the historical context of the Cold War, we approach the study of mythic constructions in state socialist and postsocialist societies through the analysis of childhood memories. In particular, we focus on how mythic constructs relate to mundane objects and

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Lachazette, Xavier. "Daphne du Maurier’s remythification of landscape in ‘The Old Man’ and ‘The Lordly Ones’." Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 15, no. 1 (2025): 37–49. https://doi.org/10.1386/fict_00121_1.

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Daphne du Maurier’s ‘The Old Man’ (1952) and ‘The Lordly Ones’ (1959) share thematic and structural similarities, particularly in their exploration of evocative landscapes imbued with mythic significance. Both stories also depict parental neglect and cruelty, as well as animal–human hybridity, reinforcing Cornwall’s literary tradition as a liminal space where myth and psychological tension coexist. Du Maurier’s landscapes function as chronotopes, collapsing past and present into mythic time, and as palimpsests, layering folklore, memory and personal experience. Drawing from psychogeographic tr

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წურწუმია, ნინო. "მოდერნისტული პოლიქრონოტოპია: ქრონოტოპული კონფიგურაციები ჯეიმზ ჯოისის რომანში ულის". Contemporary Issues of Literary Studies - International Symposium Proceedings 17 (20 грудня 2024): 184–90. https://doi.org/10.62119/cils.17.2024.8712.

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The purpose of the present paper is to examines the representation of Dublin in James Joyce's Ulysses (1922) through the lens of „overarching” chronotopes (Romantic/Idyllic, Naturalistic/Documentary, Decadent/Self-referential, and avant-garde/modernist). The paper will focus on the juxtaposition of historic (diachronic) and mythic (synchronic) aspects of Dublin as a transhistorical city. The naturalistic description of urban space in "Wandering Rocks" makes sharp contrast with the hallucinatory atmosphere and phantasmagoric symbolism of "Circe" episode. In the "Penelope" episode the dichotomy

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Pezzoli-Olgiati, Daria. "Erkundungen Von Gegenwelten: Zur Orientierungsleistung «mythischer» Reisen Am Beispiel Zweier Mesopotamischer Texte Erkundungen Von Gegenwelten: Zur Orientierungsleistung «mythischer» Reisen Am Beispiel Zweier Mesopotamischer Texte." Numen 52, no. 2 (2005): 226–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568527054024740.

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AbstractThe present article focuses on the function of mythic journeys with regard to the problem of death and the transience of human life in two selected Mesopotamian literary sources: the Gilgamesh-Epic IX–XI and the Descent of Ishtar to the Underworld. The selected texts are analysed and compared from the perspective of a functionalist definition of religious symbol systems, with particular attention to the transformation involved in travelling through different cosmic regions. The structure of the journey, the characterisation of the different regions visited by the protagonist, and the c

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Lombard, J. "Mitisiteit as basis vir vergelykende literatuurstudie, met verwysing na waterslangsimboliek." Literator 25, no. 1 (2004): 91–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v25i1.247.

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Mythicity as basis for comparative literature, with reference to water snake symbolism Mythicity can be defined as the deliberate intention of probing the numinous dimensions of human existence by means of literature, i.e. mainly narrative forms. In this article the water snake is chosen as prominent archetypal symbol in order to investigate the functioning of mythicity. The water snake is an important symbol in the Southern African context, with its origins in Khoesan ritual and mythology. Recently several stories about water snakes and related mythological creatures have been published in Af

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Howley, Ellen. "The Mythic Sea in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Poetry." Comparative Literature 74, no. 3 (2022): 306–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00104124-9722363.

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Abstract Myths of the sea are some of the most enduring cultural associations with oceanic spaces. In particular, literature written from islands and coastal locations often shares an interest in these mythic narratives. With a focus on this comparative element, this article investigates how contemporary poets from Ireland and from the Anglophone Caribbean engage with the myths of the sea in their work. It examines the poetry of Lorna Goodison (Jamaica), Seamus Heaney (Northern Ireland), Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (Republic of Ireland), and Derek Walcott (Saint Lucia), demonstrating the ways in wh

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Chen, Fanfan. "From the Experiences of the Mountains and the Seas to the Experiments of Alchemy." IRIS, no. 35 (June 30, 2014): 49–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.35562/iris.1736.

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This essay explores the Chinese imagination and “logic” that construct both literal and figurative ways of ascending to heaven from the mythic or imaginary facts to the pragmatic and spiritual practice. Many Taoist philosophers and alchemists draw on figurative language and allegories to demonstrate abstract notions and wisdom. This figurative mediation is reminiscent of Plato’s approach in staging Socrates as a “teller of myth”. The present study thus resorts to the theory of the imaginary to better illuminate the underlying symbolism and the universal imaginary in Chinese texts and thought.

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Kaur, Paramjit. "MYTH, MAGIC AND PATRIARCHY IN INDIAN DRAMA: A CULTURAL STUDY OF GIRISH KARNAD’S THEMATIC VISION." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 6, no. 2 (2018): 366–73. https://doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v6.i2.2018.6195.

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The present study aims to analyse the text Nagamandala by the famous modern Indian playwright, actor, director Girish Karna through its various aspects like the struggle between the myth, reality and dream like situation that the protagonist of the play faces. The extensive study of the play reveals how Karnard has used materials from Indian folk lore as a backdrop of the dramatic analysis of contemporary life. The playwright employs all the devices used in folktales and mythic patterns, such as the imputation of superhuman qualities to human beings and non-human entities, to highlight the dep

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Fedosova, Maria. "WHY HEROES FAIL: NATIONAL IDENTITY IN JIN YONG'S MARTIAL ARTS NOVEL THE BOOK AND THE SWORD." Fìlologìčnì traktati 13, no. 1 (2021): 124–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.21272/ftrk.2021.13(1)-12.

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Martial arts fiction presents a number of signs that define Chinese cultural separateness and reflect national identities of Chinese communities around the world. In this paper, we select the novel The Book and the Sword of Jin Yong, the most celebrated martial arts author, to analyze how the wuxia conventions can be applied to represent the formation of a new emigrant identity under the foreign rule and under the influence of abandoned Mainland China. Setting his novels in the mythical past allows Jin Yong to freely discuss the cultural, social and political circumstances of his present that

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Riviere, Peter. "A dialogue among indigenous groups: the experience of two encounters mediated by the video." Revista de Antropologia 38, no. 1 (1995): 191–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.1995.111445.

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In this paper, Peter Riviére, deals with Lowland South American notions of transformation as presente is mythic narratives and cosmologies as well as in social practices. Human nature is understood as varied and intricated, this condition being expressed by clothing and skin coverings. These, in turn, are means of domesticating an "animal" component essential and always present in human nature. The outer coverning of the individual also mediates between the inner self, society and the cosmos. References are made to the Trio, the kayapo, Kaxúyana, Matsigenka, Warao, Yanomamo, Tukano and Piaroa.

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Riviere, Peter. "A dialogue among indigenous groups: the experience of two encounters mediated by the video." Revista de Antropologia 38, no. 1 (1995): 191–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/1678-9857.ra.1995.111445.

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In this paper, Peter Riviére, deals with Lowland South American notions of transformation as presente is mythic narratives and cosmologies as well as in social practices. Human nature is understood as varied and intricated, this condition being expressed by clothing and skin coverings. These, in turn, are means of domesticating an "animal" component essential and always present in human nature. The outer coverning of the individual also mediates between the inner self, society and the cosmos. References are made to the Trio, the kayapo, Kaxúyana, Matsigenka, Warao, Yanomamo, Tukano and Piaroa.

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Meyer, Michaela D. E. "Utilizing mythic criticism in contemporary narrative culture: Examining the “present‐absence” of shadow archetypes inspider‐man." Communication Quarterly 51, no. 4 (2003): 518–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01463370309370171.

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Яровенко, С., and S. Yarovenko. "Historical Cognition: Interpretation As Mythologizing." Scientific Research and Development. Socio-Humanitarian Research and Technology 6, no. 4 (2017): 17–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/article_5a2e67e2872140.31386440.

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The subject ofthe present studyis the phenomenon ofmy theologizing of historical knowledge.The problem of the mythologization of history is actualized by the unavoidable interpretation of historical cognition, which connects it with the mythological components of the personal attitudes of the subject of historical knowledge, partly determined by the contemporary sociocultural myth-environment, and, accordingly, allows us to considerthe interpretation ofhistorical events and factsas a wayofmythologizing. The problem is examined in two different aspects: on the one hand, it is the "anti-historic

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Hall, Peter C., and Richard D. Erlich. "Beyond Topeka and Thunderdome: Variations on the Comic-Romance Pattern in Recent SF Film." Science Fiction Studies 14, Part 3 (1987): 316–25. https://doi.org/10.1525/sfs.14.3.0316.

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In Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome traditional mythic patterns are reshaped, and this has the effect of obviating ethical and aesthetic problems inherent in the comic-romance form when used for post-apocalyptic film. Earlier films had tended to present post-apocalyptic stories as variations upon the traditional comic-romance pattern, leading to the hope for a possible rejuvenation of the wasteland. In Dr Strangelove and A Boy and His Dog, the problems posed by that wasteland are met with a shift into the ironic mode, with a savagely satiric frustration of the comic-romance pattern. Beyond Thunderdo

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Lima, Thayse Leal. "O espaço mítico na obra camoniana: Sião e A Ilha dos Amores." Revista do Centro de Estudos Portugueses 23, no. 32 (2003): 87. http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/2359-0076.23.32.87-104.

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<p>O presente trabalho pretende efetuar um estudo comparativo entre o poema lírico “Sôbolos Rios” e o episódio referente à Ilha dos Amores narrado no canto IX de “Os Lusíadas”. Ambos têm como temática principal o espaço mítico que no poema é representado por Sião, a terra prometida do mito judaico, e na epopéia afigura-se na Ilha dos Amores, local de encontro entre o divino e o humano. Procuraremos analisar o sentido que o espaço mítico irá tomar nessas obras, bem como suas implicações para a poética camoniana.</p> <p>The present work intends to effect a comparative study bet

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Jensen, Lionel M. "Wise Man of The Wilds: Fatherlessness, Fertility, and the Mythic Exemplar, Kongzi." Early China 20 (1995): 407–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0362502800004570.

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There is no more salient figure in early Chinese literature than Kongzi and yet he remains a figure about whose beginnings we know very little. The present essay explores this paradox of bibliographic salience and biographic silence through an in-depth examination of the principal narratives of the Kongzi legend from the Shiji and the Kongzi jiayu, paying particular attention to the language of their respective accounts of the birth of the sage. Finding a distinct lack of fit between the form and content of these these stories, I propose a narrative alternative drawn from the early Han weishu

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Johnston, Sarah Iles. "The Authority of Greek Mythic Narratives in the Magical Papyri." Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 16, no. 1 (2015): 51–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/arege-2014-0006.

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Abstract I begin by summarizing work that has been done concerning a persistent question in the study of ancient magic: how did practitioners balance empirical reality against their own imaginations? I go on to suggest that my recent work on Greek myths, which uses ideas developed in media studies and social psychology, can help. This work suggests that myths’ authority rested in large part on their effectiveness as lively, cognitively-engaging narrations, which in turn enabled audience members to build strong relationships with the myths’ characters, who were the gods and heroes worshipped in

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Ome, M. Rad Shakil. "Mythopoesis: From Simplicity to Sublimity, Uplifting Aspects in Coleridge, Keats, and Shelly’s Poetry." Journal of Critical Studies in Language and Literature 6, no. 3 (2025): 43–49. https://doi.org/10.46809/jcsll.v6i3.357.

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This dissertation pursues the exploration of the innermost sublime nature of romantic poetry composed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Such aspects of literature are brought forth by the inclusion of a rather vivid method, the method of myth creation otherwise known after Hellenistic Greek as mythopoesis. Instead of devising a literary work with just reality or rigid mythic elements the process of mythopoesis allows the poet to create a blend of fact and fiction with the freedom of imagination. In turn, mythopoesis inserts a form of wisdom that works well to ep

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Noys, Benjamin. "The Crisis of the Present Moment and the Crisis of Contemporary Theory." South Atlantic Quarterly 123, no. 2 (2024): 343–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00382876-11086587.

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Instead of crisis as a punctual event the contemporary experience is one of overlapping forms and modes of crisis resulting in a complex rhythm. While attempting to respond to this situation contemporary theory has often struggled to focus on the present moment of crisis. Instead, it has turned to a fundamental rift in the past or to the need to invent a utopian future as ways of escaping the present crisis. This is due to the influence of Heidegger and, especially, Nietzsche. The result is a tendency to abandon the present as destitute and to treat the current situation as an epochal crisis o

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Rushefsky, Michelle L. "Bloody Petticoats: Performative Monstrosity of the Female Slayer in Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies." Humanities 13, no. 2 (2024): 52. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h13020052.

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In 2009, Seth Grahame-Smith published Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, sparking a subgenre that situates itself within multiple genres. I draw from the rebellious nature of nineteenth-century proto-feminists who tried to reclaim the female monster as an initial methodology to analyze Grahame-Smith’s Elizabeth Bennet. I argue that the (white) women in this horror rewriting inadvertently become the oppressors alongside contextualized zombie theory. This article also explores Grahame-Smith’s Charlotte Lucas as a complex female monster, as she is bitten and turned into a zombie, which reflects in

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Gautam, Mani Bhadra. "Cultural Performances and Practices in Kirtipur: A Mythic Perspective on Lakhe Dance, Arts and Literature of Newars." Cognition 4, no. 1 (2022): 71–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/cognition.v4i1.46450.

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Kirtipur is a historical place of Nepal that is important for its geographical location, arts and cultural performances. Majority of the people living in Kirtipur are Newars and they perform special Newar Dance, Lakhe Dance, Satgaunle Jatra, Ghatemangal etc. The performances help to study the Newars arts, culture and literature which are quite interesting while studying from mythical perspective. Myth centers on transformation of consciousness, the hero journey, human feelings, understanding, observation, actions, experiences and, life and death rituals. This study undergoes on cultural perfor

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de Jong, Irene. "Herakles als ‘stichter’ van de Olympische Spelen bij Pindarus." Lampas 54, no. 2 (2021): 194–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/lam2021.2.002.jong.

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Abstract The origin of the Olympics is a topic much researched by historians and archaeologists, who are eager to reconstruct ‘wie es eigentlich gewesen’. An ancient poet like Pindar had a very different take on this issue: he constructs a past that is attractive to the victors in the games, and does so by modelling the mythic past closely after the historic present. This phenomenon of invented tradition is illustrated in detail for the two odes in which Heracles is portrayed as inventor of the Olympic Games.

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Cooper, Alan, and Bernard R. Goldstein. "The Cult of the Dead and the Theme of Entry Into the Land." Biblical Interpretation 1, no. 3 (1993): 285–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156851593x00179.

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AbstractIn a number of biblical texts, including both prescriptive texts and narratives, the erection of stones, pillars, or altars commemorates entry into the land of Israel. The present paper is an investigation of the mythic and cultic basis for this action. It is suggested that the erection of the or together with accompanying ritual actions, may be traced to the Israelite ancestor cult. The underlying ritual pattern constitutes the ceremonial installation of the ancestors on the land, and manifests an assertion of ownership in perpetuity.

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Ghosh, Subho. "Jayanta Mahapatra’s Poetry : A Mythic Mirage of Social Introspection on the Bedrock of Reality." INTERANTIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT 07, no. 11 (2023): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.55041/ijsrem27373.

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Jayanta Mahapatra’s impregnation of socio-cultural backdrops that he discerns in his locale fetches him face to face with history and myth when his “self” is connoted in the act of attention. The intimacies amid the self and reality - the reality that flees but comprises self and culture form the bedrock of Mahapatra’s poetry. To him, it is the investigation of myths and it is leashed with the world of art and sculpture. He keeps on his quest for a divine spirit and for charm in the relationship between man and man, and God and God, men and sculptured art. Mahapatra holds forth to have the con

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Babbage, Frances. "The Past in the Present? A Response to Stan's Cafe's Revival of ‘The Carrier Frequency’." New Theatre Quarterly 16, no. 1 (2000): 97–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x0001349x.

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The premiere of The Carrier Frequency took place in 1984, the result of a collaboration between Leeds-based Impact Theatre Cooperative and the novelist Russell Hoban. Impact was founded in 1978 by Claire MacDonald, Pete Brooks, Steve Schill, Graeme Miller, Tyrone Huggins, and Richard Hawley, with Nikki Johnson and Heather Ackroyd joining in subsequent years. Many companies since have cited Impact as a major inspiration, with The Carrier Frequency in particular achieving almost mythic status. Today, Impact has long since disbanded, and little documentation of their work remains to enable their

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Leader-Elliott, Ian D. "Prohibitions Against Heroin Use: Can They Be Justified?" Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 19, no. 4 (1986): 225–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000486588601900404.

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Legislative responses to the drug problem in Australia have been predominantly penal in character. In the case of heroin, a drug which has assumed a mythic or totemic status among the illicit drugs, the calculated effect of criminal prohibitions has been to worsen the plight of the individual user. Few, if any, attempts have been made in this country to present a rational and principled justification for our current practices. The article presents an analysis of the operation of existing laws as they affect the heroin problem. The question whether these effects can be justified as an example o

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Feinstein, Joshua. "Constructing the Mythic Present in the East German Cinema: Frank Beyer's Spur der Steine and the 11th Plenum of 1965." Central European History 32, no. 2 (1999): 203–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008938900020902.

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Spurder Steine (Trail of Stones) is probably the best-known of the approximately two dozen East German films that were banned by state officials. Combining epic proportions with subversive humor, the picture still retains the ability to fascinate and amuse audiences well over three decades after its completion in 1966. In one scene, its most arresting protagonist, the foreman Balla, leads his small band of carpenters across the Iunar landscape of the chemical plant under construction, where the film is set. As martial music blares in the background, the “Ballas,” conspicuously dressed in the b

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Pirok, Alena. "Specters of the Mythic South: How Plantation Fiction Fixed Ghost Stories to Black Americans." Southern Cultures 29, no. 4 (2023): 16–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/scu.2023.a917560.

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Abstract: The author challenges the notion of southern ghost stories as inherently subversive. Beginning with the stories in late nineteenth-century plantation fiction, this essay explores how wealthy white southerners used the genre to redeem and remake the region's past and present. White authors' claims of fraternity with largely nameless and faceless Black contacts are central to the story and reveal how these ghost stories helped to suppress reality, in favor of mythic tales. A comparison of the planation ghost stories and ghost stories accurately attributed to Black southerners shows tha

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Wright, Laura. ""Go Back to Africa": Afrocentrism, the 2016 NFL Protests, and Ryan Coogler's 2018 Black." Postcolonial Interventions: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Postcolonial Studies (ISSN 2455 6564) Vol. IV, Issue 1 (January 31, 2019): 45–72. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2554496.

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The concept of an imagined homogenizing shared cultural heritage worked to further the 19th Century “back to Africa” movement, which urged members of the African American diaspora to return to ancestral homelands in Africa (to which, because of their ancestral forced removal during slavery, they had no access), even as that narrative flattened conceptions of African identity to a mythical ideal. Further, the production of mythic fictional Africas – whether negative, as those recently constructed by Donald Trump’s assertion that African nations are “shithole”

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Kastely, James L. "The Recalcitrance of Aggression: An Aporetic Moment in Cicero's De inventione." Rhetorica 20, no. 3 (2002): 235–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rh.2002.20.3.235.

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In De inventione Cicero defends rhetoric by presenting a myth of the progress of the human species from asocial brutes to rational and social creatures. However, as Cicero explains the corruption of rhetoric by cunning individuals moved only by private interest, his myth reveals the present situation to be every bit as divided and contentious as the mythic state of nature. His myth discovers that rhetoric cannot escape corruption. Stasis theory, however, offers the possibility of an ethical rhetorical practice. By formalizing the agonistic clash of interests as a method of invention, stasis th

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Tiffany, Rafael, and Susan Moffat. "Monumental Hydraulics." Boom 6, no. 3 (2016): 40–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/boom.2016.6.3.40.

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Water system infrastructure and the monuments that commemorate it in California and Mexico are evidence of similarities in their cultures’ water regimes. Mexico’s Lerma Waterworks site argues the importance of reliable water provision for Mexico City’s modern identity. The mid-20th c. architecture and the murals designed by Diego Rivera, entitled “Agua, Origen de la Vida,” narrate the journey of water as it flows continuously from the indigenous past and into the modern present. Along the way, Rivera represents water as bridging distinct locations, cultures, and social classes. This mythic ren

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Fuertes Arboix, Mónica. "El discurso mítico de la Edad Media en la Historia General de España de Modesto Lafuente." Lectura y Signo, no. 12 (February 6, 2018): 275. http://dx.doi.org/10.18002/lys.v0i12.5320.

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<p>Modesto Lafuente es el artífice de la Historia General de España escrita en el siglo XIX, redacción a la que<br />dedicó los últimos años de su vida. La visión de España que se describe en sus páginas es la de un país constituido como tal desde la antigüedad. Esta visión mítica y fundacional de España responde, entre<br />otras causas, al discurso político nacionalista del siglo XIX: la búsqueda en el pasado para justificar el<br />presente y construir un futuro en el que los españoles como nación social y política se puedan identificar.<br />En este trabajo tr

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Złocka-Dąbrowska, Magdalena Alina. "Cratos, Crisis and Cognition in Reference to Generative Anthropology and the Scene of Language/Culture Origin." "Res Rhetorica" 8, no. 1 (2021): 137–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.29107/rr2021.1.8.

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This article will interpret Cratos, a mythic character and rhetorical personification present in the works of Hesiod and Aeschylus, as a multilayered and metaphoric figure of cognition, defining him in reference to the hypothesis of the origin of language and culture advanced by Eric Gans’s Generative Anthropology. Cratos was a violent oppressor of Prometheus, involved in provoking a crisis among both gods and humanity. This faithful and ruthless performer of the will of Zeus is viewed here as representing one of the deeper cognitive layers of mythological transfer, that is, as a representatio

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O'Donnell, Marcus. "Jack Bauer: The Smart Warrior's Faustian Gift." Media International Australia 129, no. 1 (2008): 33–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0812900105.

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Jack Bauer of the television series 24 is a highly charged contemporary mythic character who exists in powerful relationship to past and present real-world and fictional figures. If Rambo was a classic Reagan era cinematic ‘hard body’ (Jeffords, 1994), Jack is the archetypal Bush ‘smart warrior’ in a post -Patriot Act era. Like Rambo, Reagan's displays of bravado were decisive and successfully staged; however, George Bush has faced a multiplying set of uncertainties. This sets up a more complex set of relations between Jack, George W. Bush and contemporary masculinities than those presented by

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Christenson, Allen J. "The Sacred Tree of the Ancient Maya." Journal of Book of Mormon Studies (1992-2007) 6, no. 1 (1997): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/44759810.

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Abstract Sacred trees, representing the power of life to grow from the underworld realm of the dead, are a common motif in the art and literature of the ancient Maya of Mesoamerica. Such trees are similar in concept to the tree of life described in the Book of Mormon, as well as to the mythic traditions of many other contemporary world cultures. Hieroglyphic inscriptions and sixteenth-century highland Maya texts describe a great world tree that was erected at the dawn of the present age to stand as the axis point of the cosmos. In its fruit-laden form, it personified the god of creation who fa

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Braun, Willi. "The Oldest Past of Christianity." Religion and Theology 31, no. 1-2 (2024): 11–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15743012-bja10071.

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Abstract The article argues that just as religion is manufactured or invented, so is tradition and history. This starting point is worked out with reference to history as a discursive construction, the past as fictioned in the present. The past does not exist independently of historical practice. History is a tool for ideological persuasion and ideological criticism in the chaotic, disputed and contested present. This understanding of historiography is brought to bear on the scholarly discourse on Christian origins, highlighting the performativity or mythic character of conventional reconstruc

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Neiberg, Michael. "Dennis Showalter and the study of the First World War." War in History 29, no. 1 (2022): 35–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0968344520937136.

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Dennis Showalter’s influence on the scholarship of the First World War is unmatched among American historians. His work is especially important for two reasons. First, it studies the German Army using primary sources and original research, a particularly valuable contribution given the mythic and just plain false associations that many amateur scholars place on the German military. Second, Dennis’s career involved long stretches of teaching cadets and military officers. His work thus combined an appreciation of the problems of the past with the challenges of the present day. The second half of

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Perrin, C. E. "Document, Text and Myth: Lavoisier's Crucial Year Revisited." British Journal for the History of Science 22, no. 1 (1989): 3–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087400025516.

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Published texts, unpublished documents and, to a lesser extent, artefacts are the stuff from which historians of science fashion their interpretations of the past. From these residues we attempt to reconstruct the lost fabric of personalities, activities and institutions that constituted the practice of science, and to comprehend the flow of thought that was its substance. Like the sensory data of the empirical sciences, these raw materials are not pure chunks of reality. They must be interpreted in the light of contemporary discourse and practice of which they were part. Over time, and in the

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Geinger, Freya, Michel Vandenbroeck, and Griet Roets. "Parenting as a performance: Parents as consumers and (de)constructors of mythic parenting and childhood ideals." Childhood 21, no. 4 (2013): 488–501. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0907568213496657.

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The existing critical literature on constructions of childhood and parenthood is only beginning to listen to what parents have to say. As a result, parents may paradoxically be viewed as passive victims and therefore reduced to be the spectators of what is supposed to be their ‘problem’. The present study analyses dominant parent advice texts in the Flemish community of Belgium, as well as the voices of parents on the Internet. The study confirms the tendencies noticed in critical literature: the tendency to individualize responsibilities and the focus on autonomy in the neoliberal era. In add

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Lindstedt, Iwona. "The Polish School of Composition in 20th-Century Music – A Recapitulation." Musicology Today 15, no. 1 (2018): 32–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/muso-2018-0005.

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Abstract The present paper concerns the concept of ‘the Polish School of Composition’, well established in writings on music composed in the 2nd half of the 20th century, but still resisting attempts to define it clearly. I sum up the ways authors have talked about the Polish School of Composition to date, both from the internal (Polish) and external (foreign) points of view. I also examine the musical differentia specifica (such as aspects of style, composition technique and expression in works associated with this phenomenon) and the extramusical (mostly social and political) contexts which

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Warda-Tun-Naeem and Areej Agha. "Reimagining the Past: The Use of Mythology in Contemporary Literature." Journal of Arts and Linguistics Studies 3, no. 1 (2025): 355–83. https://doi.org/10.71281/jals.v3i1.227.

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This study shall examine that modern-day writers have started using ancient myth as a new source of inspiration for fresh compositions that address contemporary social problems. This paper looks at the ways modern writers such as Madeline Miller and Neil Gaiman adapt mythology, analyzing how their use of mythic figures and myths conveys contemporary sexual and power relations and identity Issues. Creatives shield mythology from trivial pastimes, because such readings position mythic elements as devices that interrogate urgent social and cultural challenges of today. In her 2018 novel Circe, Ma

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Forest-Hill, Lynn. "‘Tree and flower and leaf and grass’: anachronism and J.R.R. Tolkien’s botanical semiotics." Journal of Inklings Studies 5, no. 1 (2015): 72–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ink.2015.5.1.4.

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Tolkien’s use of plants in his works has, over many years, been the subject of limited critical attention in spite of the diversity and complexity of that use. This paper examines a selection of Tolkien’s best-known botanical references from the perspectives of various literary theories, to reveal the significance of anachronism in The Lord of the Rings. This in turn highlights the levels and forms of interpenetration by the past into the present of Middle-earth. Although the past is explicit throughout the work, attention to plants associated with specific characters and events reveals a subt

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