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Journal articles on the topic "Mythological themes"
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Lungu, Viorel. "Aesthetic Education through Mythological and Religious Themes." Journal of Art & Design Education 17, no. 2 (1998): 171–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-5949.00122.
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Lefteri, Christy. "Telling the Silenced Story: Mythological Themes in Cypriot Literature." New Writing 6, no. 3 (2009): 276–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14790720903556221.
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Ovlad, F. "Mythological Themes in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land." Critique of foreign language and literature 16, no. 23 (2019): 63–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.29252/clls.16.23.63.
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FIGUERAS, Pau. "Mythological Themes in Palestinian Byzantine Mosaics from the Byzantine Period." ARAM Periodical 15 (January 1, 2003): 49–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.2143/aram.15.0.504525.
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FIGUERAS Pau. ""Mythological themes in Palestinian Byzantine mosaics from the Byzantine period"." ARAM Periodical 15, no. 1 (2005): 49–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.2143/aram.15.1.504525.
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Saadi-Nejad, Manya. "Mythological Themes in Iranian Culture and Art: Traditional and Contemporary Perspectives." Iranian Studies 42, no. 2 (2009): 231–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00210860902764946.
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knutson, chris. "Fishing with Ulysses and Bacchus: Two Roman Mosaics from Tunisia." Gastronomica 7, no. 4 (2007): 7–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2007.7.4.7.
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The mosaics of Roman Africa drew upon themes from mythology as well as daily life. Even "mythological" scenes can lend insight into real-life activities like food production. One such activity, fishing, is especially prominent in Roman African mosaics. Two mosaics from the so-called "House of Ulysses" in Dougga combine mythological themes with fishing scenes. One mosaic depicts Ulysses' encounter with the Sirens, while the second represents the god Bacchus transforming his would-be kidnappers into dolphins. The fishing scenes are incorporated into the mythological scenes and show fishermen harvesting the adjacent waters. The details of these fishing scenes are striking considering the inland location of Dougga, some 60 miles (100 km) from the sea, in the middle of Roman Africa's agricultural heartland. The inclusion of these fishing scenes in the "House of Ulysses" mosaics suggests that the house's owner had a close connection with the sea, and perhaps alludes to the Roman infrastructure that would have brought marine products to the interior.
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Selemeneva, Olga A. "I.A. Bunin’s poetic mythonymicon: connotative aspect." Russian Language Studies 19, no. 3 (2021): 285–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2618-8163-2021-19-3-285-297.
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The article studies the system of mythological names in I.A. Bunins poetic heritage. The relevance of the topic is due to the unexplored problems of word-formation motivation, semantics, structure, and the role of mythological names in I.A. Bunins prose and poetic texts. The aim of the paper is to analyze the connotative potential of different-structured mythological names which are significant for the artistic system of I.A. Bunin. The actual material of the study contains I.A. Bunins poetic texts written in 1888-1952. The main research methods are descriptive, etymological, contextual, semantic methods, and structural analysis. The inventory of more than 700 poetic contexts of I.A. Bunin made it possible to identify 152 mythological names from various sources. The selected units were systematized on four features: semantics, etymology, structure, and frequency of use. The analysis of the connotative potential of some simple, composite and complex mythological names allowed to come to the conclusion that they accumulate additional emotional-evaluative, symbolic meanings. New combinations of meanings, qualitative and quantitative changes in the connotative content of mythological names are provided by the individual authors reinterpretation of primary sources, the complexity of motivational relations between producing units and derivatives, and the semantic environment of a particular unit. Mythological names are associated with the key motifs, themes, ideas, and value oppositions of I.A. Bunins picture of the world. The study of the features of the system of I.A. Bunins mythological names with the tools of linguistics and literary studies, philosophy, and cultural studies is one of the undoubted prospects of research.
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Sayfulina, Flera Sagitovna, Aimukhambet Zhanat Askerbekkyzy, and Guzel Chahvarovna Faizullina. "Mythopoetics of ancient epics of turkic peoples." Personality & Society 1, no. 1 (2020): 20–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.46502/issn.2712-8024/2020.1.3.
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This article deals with the research on dastans, the oral lore of the epic genre of Turkic peoples, featuring daunting stories and rich ethnographic details. Interestingly, the voluminous epic monuments belong to the common cultural heritage of different groups of kindred Turkic peoples: Tatars, Kazakhs, Bashkirs, Nogai, Uzbeks, Azerbaijanis, Turkmens, and others. We analyzed the epic-dastans, widespread and preserved until now in many Turkic nations, including the Tatars and Kazakhs, to identify their mythological attributes and behavioral formulas in the image of their heroes. We have noticed that the heroes of the analyzed dastans act in a "mythological space" and reflect "mythological consciousness." There, ancient mythological ideas of the Turkic nations about the world intervene with the ideas created later under the influence of Islam. By analyzing the behavior and deeds of the heroes of epic-dastans, such as "Er Tishlik", "Alpamysh Batyr", "Edige Batyr", "Koroghly", inherent in both the Kazakh and Tatar nations, we managed to find common features between the epic and mythological heroes, made a number of conclusions regarding their behavioral nature and the continuity of the mythological and artistic systems of the Turkic peoples' thought. Starting with the ancient epic and ending with the heroic dastans of the Turks, their themes and motifs in varying degrees are related to the mythological chronotype. Scientists, who devoted their scientific works to epics research, note the presence of the mythological layer in them. The mythological motif can be most expressly traced in more ancient epics, which denoted the beginning of the ancient Turkic folklore genres' development. Since the second half of the XIX century, the scientist recorded numerous folklore works of Turkic nations, told by their bearers during long scientific expeditions across Altai, Tuva, Khakassia, Shoria, Southern Siberia, East Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Northern Mongolia, and other territories of the Turkic nations' residence.
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Denton, Donald D. "Guilt, Betrayal, and Stain: A Prolegomena to Multiaxial Pastoral Diagnosis." Journal of Pastoral Care 47, no. 1 (1993): 14–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002234099304700103.
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Outlines a scheme of pastoral diagnosis and analyzes teleological and ontological approaches to the task of diagnosis. Proposes that the themes of ethical guilt, covenantal betrayal, and mythological defilement be utilized in organizing case material and in arriving at a multiaxial approach to diagnosis.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Mythological themes"
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Carpenter, Brian L. ""A Marvelously Big Stone": Geological Objects and Mythological Experience in the Writing of Charles Olson." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2005. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/CarpenterBL2005.pdf.
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Ulmer-Leahey, Christiane. "'The lady of the lake' : a motif analysis of the legend 'The lady of Llyn y Fan Fach' and a comparison with twentieth century works." Thesis, Bangor University, 1994. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-lady-of-the-lake--a-motif-analysis-of-the-legend-the-lady-of-llyn-y-fan-fach-and-a-comparison-with-twentieth-century-works(e898167b-ca83-40a0-bba6-42dc618161a4).html.
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The objective of this thesis is to investigate examples of mythological motifs regarding their history and meaning. The thesis aims to show that the symbolic language used in myths, legends, folk and fairy tales have an important role within modern society and still have an effect on people's lives. Chapter I gives an overview of the Lady of the Lake tales contained in John Rhys' work Celtic Folklore Welsh and Manx and investigates whether those tales express in symbolic language actual historic events and issues of the times during which those tales were formulated. Chapter II widens the perspective by looking at various examples of water legends in Wales which are related to the Lady of the Lake cycle. It becomes evident that the uniting factor of all those tales is that they deal with conflicting ethical systems. Chapter III engages a detailed analysis of the motifs contained in the Legend of the "Lady of Llyn y Fan Fach" and combines the historic interpretation approach with a psychological method of interpretation. Chapters IV and V are concerned with tracing the motifs discussed in the previous chapters in twentieth-century works. Chapter IV looks at how one author uses motifs and universal symbols to make personal statements. Chapter V interprets the Walt Disney cartoon "The Little Mermaid". The Conclusion expands on the previously introduced idea of the development of the human mind. It has been suggested that symbolic language can reflect aspects of human reality and an attempt has been made to show how symbolic language operates. The Conclusion discusses the idea that the mythological way of thinking should be amalgamated with the rational capabilities of the human mind in order to create a new and effective understanding of reality.
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Jordan, Whitaker R. "STAGING THESEUS: THE MYTHOLOGICAL IMAGE OF THE PRINCE IN THE COMEDIA OF THE SPANISH GOLDEN AGE." UKnowledge, 2014. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/hisp_etds/15.
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This dissertation uses the seventeenth-century Spanish plays which employ an array of mythological stories of Theseus to analyze the Early Modern ideology of the Prince. The consideration of the different rulers in these plays highlights different aspects of these sovereigns such as their honor, prudence, valor, and self-control. Many of these princes fall well short of the ideal explained in the comedia and in the writings of the arbitristas. By employing the hylomorphic theory in which everything can exist in either its matter or its form, it is shown that in order to have the form of a prince, rulers must act in certain ways to reach that ideal or perfect state. Many princes in the plays, however, at least at certain times, only have the matter of a prince and fall short of the form. By drawing from mythological theories which describe the need for a mediation or an alleviation of an irresolvable contradiction within a society, it is shown that despite the imperfections of the flawed princes that are put on stage, these plays still defend and glorify the monarchical system in which they were created as well as the specific imperfect princes.
The six plays examined here in which Theseus is a primary protagonist are El laberinto de Creta, Las mujeres sin hombres, and El vellocino de oro by Lope de Vega; Los tres mayores prodigios by Calderón de la Barca; El labyrinto de Creta by Juan Bautista Diamante; and Amor es más laberinto by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Juan de Guevara. These plays span a large portion of the seventeenth century and although the authors wrote some of them for the corrales, they created others to be performed before the court.
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Steward, Judith A. "Perspectives from the ranching culture in the 1990's : addressing mythological and environmental concerns." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/33804.
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Ideals of freedom, independence, and land ownership helped form and perpetuate the mythology of ranching in the United States. However, stereotypes emerged as a result of distortion from the media and the move away from the land. Social philosophies changed
regarding the environment, land use, and the health and safety of the food supply in the
late 20th century. In relation to the mythology, stereotype, and social theory regarding the
ranching culture, this research seeks to clarify the fundamental principles, business
philosophy, lifestyle, and values of men and women raising beef as a food product on both
public and private lands in the 1990's. The mythology surrounding ranchers and cowboys
are the result of three historical periods in the United States; however, the last 100 years
have had the most profound effect in developing stereotypes. In this survey, 42 ranchers
in Lake County, Oregon and Modoc County, California describe the challenges,
satisfactions, and the partnership with Nature that is part of their livelihood in the harsh,
high desert environment of eastern Oregon and northeastern California. The low ratio of
private ground in these counties creates a dependency on use of public lands for grazing.
This use if often stereotyped as "welfare ranching," without computation for other
variables that make it comparable with private leasing. Historically, the Taylor Grazing
Act authorizes fee grazing between ranchers and the U.S. government, but current philosophy has shifted its view of free enterprise on public lands, terming it "resource
extraction." Although ranching is high in risk and low in economic return, ranchers stay in
the business because they value freedom, hard work, family cohesiveness, and the
interaction with Nature and the land. The future of ranching is challenged by
environmental policy, government agency relations, public opinion, the high cost of land
and production, and a lack of unity in the beef industry. To survive, ranchers need to
unify, sharpen communication skills, provide education about ranching practices to the
public, and become service-oriented as an organization to change stereotype and meet the
social criteria of the next century.<br>Graduation date: 1998
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Назарова, И. А., та I. Nazarova. "Роль мифологии фэнтези в формировании мировоззрения современного человека : магистерская диссертация". Master's thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10995/31708.
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Целью исследования является определение роли мифологии фэнтези в формировании мировоззрения современного человека. Первая глава работы посвящена анализу специфических черт мифа, в частности, миф описывается в ней как основа эпических жанров. Во второй главе анализируются взаимоотношения мифологических и романтических компонентов в литературе фэнтези и способ их влияния на мировоззрение читателей. В третьей главе описывается социологическое исследование. В этой части работы выявляются специфические черты влияния фэнтези на мировоззрение читателей.<br>The purpose of this research is to define role of mythology of fantasy in the formation of world view of contemporary people. In the first chapter devoted to specific features of myth. Myth is described as base for epic genre. In the second chapter is analyzed relation of mythological and romantic components in the fantasy literature, and the way to influence on world view of readers. In the third chapter is described sociological research. In this part of dissertation are revealed of specific features of influence of fantasy on reader’s world view.
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Выстороп, А. О., та A. O. Vystorop. "Русские и японские волшебные сказки: сравнительный анализ : магистерская диссертация". Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10995/56078.
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This final qualification work is devoted to a comparative analysis of Russian and Japanese fairy tales (tales of magic), the purpose of which is to identify the similarities and differences that exist between them.Comparative analysis is based on the methodology of the Russian folklorist V. Ya. Propp, which allows to make a comprehensive research of the inner structure of fairy tales. In the course of the comparative analysis, the main attention is paid to studying the influence of archaic social and ritual institutions on the origin and formation of the main plots and motifs of Russian and Japanese fairy tales, as well as to identify the causes of similarities and differences between fairy tales of Japan and Russia. Comparative analysis is carried out with the involvement of a wide range of research literature on the Slavic and Japanese cultures, which allows to give a scientific justification for the presence of similarities and differences between Russian and Japanese fairy tales.<br>В работе проводится сравнительный анализ русских и японских волшебных сказок, целью которого являетсявыявление существующих между ними сходств и различий. Сравнительный анализ основывается на методологии русского фольклориста В.Я. Проппа, которая позволяет комплексно исследовать внутреннее строение волшебных сказок. В ходе сравнительного анализа основное внимание уделяется изучению влияния архаических социальных и обрядовых институтов на происхождение и формирование основных сюжетов и мотивов русских и японских волшебных сказок, а также выявлениюпричин возникновения сходств и различий между волшебными сказками Японии и России. Сравнительный анализ проводится с привлечением широкого круга исследовательской литературы, посвященной славянской и японской культурам,что позволяет дать научное обоснование наличию сходств и различий между русскими и японскими волшебными сказками.
Books on the topic "Mythological themes"
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Thompson, Wendy. Poets, lovers, and heroes in Italian mythological prints. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004.
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Munson, Rosaria. Thucydides and Myth. Edited by Sara Forsdyke, Edith Foster, and Ryan Balot. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199340385.013.7.
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This essay shows how in Thucydides, and especially in the Archaeology, the mythological periods of Greek history become the subject of argumentation, rather than narrative exposition. It also points out the absence of references to myth and mythological figures from the speeches of the History. By contrast, Thucydides recorded the past and present formation of myths—for instance, the myth of the tyrant slayers Harmodius and Aristogiton—and the social and political effect of such myths. References to mythological figures were therefore restricted to the narrator, who may recall them at moments when he seems to empathize with the sufferings of the war, such when he tells the story of Theseus’ founding of the city of Athens during his account of the Athenian evacuation of Attica in 431 bce.
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Brian, Kathleen M. Mythological Pedagogies, or Suicide Clubs as Eugenic Alibi. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190458997.003.0012.
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During the final two decades of the nineteenth century, newspapers reported that dozens of “suicide clubs” were operating in the United States. By restoring and pursuing the uncertainty that marked these reports, as well underscoring the ultimate unknowability of the men who became the stories’ main protagonists, this chapter argues that such reports served as mythic pedagogies for naturalizing a quickly consolidating eugenics rationale. The power to mythify entailed not only the bleeding out of biography and history but also the replenishing infusion of politically useful alternatives. In this particular case study, the hemorrhage was necessitated by the political urgency surrounding the labor question and by capitalists’ need for a different story. They needed a different “sense of life” that would reframe material realities, and they did so by ventriloquizing a handful of men who died by suicide.
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Trzaskoma, Stephen. Mythography. Edited by Daniel S. Richter and William A. Johnson. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199837472.013.24.
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This chapter provides an overview of many of the important mythographical texts approximately contemporaneous with the Second Sophistic. The authors of these works sought to systematize or interpret traditional mythological lore and individual myths. Although mythography itself tended to be expressed in subliterary texts, both systematic and interpretive mythographical texts formed an important part of the context of the intellectual world of the Second Sophistic. The chapter concludes with a consideration of the ways in which the influence of mythography as a mode of transmission of mythological data and hermeneutic approaches can be traced in the literary works of the period.
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Croasmun, Matthew. Conclusions. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190277987.003.0007.
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The conclusion considers multiple constructive, theological vistas opened up by the analysis offered in the rest of the book. A provisional analysis of the “Market” as an emergent mythological person is sketched. Various trajectories for constructive hamartiology are explored. The ontology of mythological persons is described in terms of Hartshorne’s dipolar theism; Sin as a false deity can be understood as having only a consequent, and not an antecedent, nature. It is proposed that this multilevel approach to sin can help facilitate ecumenical work against sin in our cities, providing a framework in which we can value ecclesial actions that target each of the three levels of Sin’s dominion—personal discipleship, social action, and ministries of deliverance—and theorize the interactions between these various interventions.
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Heslin, Peter J. Propertius, Greek Myth, and Virgil. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199541577.001.0001.
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This book develops a new interpretation of Propertius’ use of Greek myth and of his relationship to Virgil, working out the implications of a revised relative dating of the two poets’ early works. It begins by examining from an intertextual perspective all of the mythological references in the first book of Propertius. Mythological allegory emerges as the vehicle for a polemic against Virgil over the question of which of them would be the standard-bearer for Alexandrian poetry at Rome. Virgil began the debate with elegy by creating a quasi-mythological figure out of Cornelius Gallus, and Propertius responded in kind: his Milanion, Hylas and several of his own Galluses respond primarily to Virgil’s Gallus. In the Georgics, Virgil’s Aristaeus and Orpheus are, in part, a response to Propertius; Propertius then responds in his second book via his own conception of Orpheus and Adonis. The polemic then took a different direction, in the light of Virgil’s announcement of his intention to write an epic for Octavian. Virgilian pastoral was no longer the antithesis of elegy, but its near neighbour. Propertius critiqued Virgil’s turn to epic in mythological terms throughout his second book, while also developing a new line of attack. Beginning in his second book and intensifying in his third, Propertius insinuated that Virgil’s epic in progress would turn out to be a tedious neo-Ennian annalistic epic on the military exploits of Augustus. In his fourth book, Propertius finally acknowledged the published Aeneid as a masterpiece; but by then Virgil’s death had brought an end to the fierce rivalry that had shaped Propertius’ career as a poet.
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Wickerson, Erica. Myth. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198793274.003.0005.
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Mythology was of great interest to Mann and allusions to well-known myths appear in many guises across his works. It is also of interest in terms of narrative time. This chapter takes a selection of works in which Mann toys—to varying degrees of subtlety—with mythic tales, and explores the way in which nods to well-known mythological tales affect the subjective flow of time. I explore the different models presented in Felix Krull, Blood of the Walsungs, and Doctor Faustus, and compare these to Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum, a work that engages closely with Mann’s writing. This analysis illustrates the temporally stagnating effect of mythological repetition—at the level of both plot and story—as well as the instability caused by divergence from expectation.
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Richman, Paula, and Rustom Bharucha, eds. Performing the Ramayana Tradition. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197552506.001.0001.
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Performing the Ramayana Tradition: Enactments, Interpretations, and Arguments, edited by Ramayana scholar Paula Richman and Rustom Bharucha, scholar of Theater and Performance Studies, examines diverse retellings of the Ramayana narrative as interpreted and embodied through a spectrum of performances. Unlike previous publications, this book is neither a monograph on a single performance tradition nor a general overview of Indian theater. Instead, it provides context-specific analyses of selected case studies that explore contemporary enactments of performance traditions and the narratives from which they draw: Kutiyattam, Nangyarkuttu, and Kathakali from Kerala; Kattaikkuttu and a “mythological” drama from Tamil Nadu; Talamaddale from Karnataka; avant-garde performances from Puducherry and New Delhi; a modern dance-drama from West Bengal; the monastic tradition of Sattriya from Assam; anti-caste plays from North India; and the Ramnagar Ramlila. Apart from the editors’ two introductions, which orient readers to the history of Ramayana narratives by Tulsidas, Valmiki, Kamban, Sankaradeva, and others, as well as the performance vocabulary of their enactments, the volume includes many voices, including those of directors, performers, scholars, connoisseurs, and the scholar-abbot of a monastery. It also contains two full scripts of plays, photographs of productions, interviews, conversations, and a glossary of Indian terms. Each essay in the volume, written by an expert in the field, is linked to several others, clustered around shared themes: the politics of caste and gender, the representation of the anti-hero, contemporary reinterpretations of traditional narratives, and the presence of Ramayana discourse in everyday life.
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Van Keuren, Scott, and William H. Walker. Spirits. Edited by Barbara Mills and Severin Fowles. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199978427.013.45.
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This chapter explores how the lives of ancient peoples in the Southwest were guided by their engagement with spirit worlds. From artifacts to architecture, the material record reflects visions of the universe, mythological narratives, and otherworldly entities. As archaeology has turned its attention to ancient religion and ritual, Southwest scholars are expanding their interpretations of these central dimensions of ancient ecologies. This theoretical turn reflects broader changes in the field as well as collaborations with descendant communities. The chapter builds on contemporary theory as well as classic ethnographies to show how spirit worlds may have been engaged and materialized in the ancient Southwest.
Book chapters on the topic "Mythological themes"
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Betti, Marco. "Amori proibiti in palazzo Mondragone Carnesecchi. Un’inedita cupola di Antonio Puglieschi e una memoria medicea." In Studi e saggi. Firenze University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-181-5.09.
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The recent discovery of a dome painted by Antonio Puglieschi in the Mondragone Carnesecchi palace, representing Mars and Venus surprised by Vulcan, offers the occasion to reflect on the symbols used by Francesco I de’ Medici and Bianca Cappello. According to an ancient rumor, the clandestine love encounters between Francesco and Bianca had taken place in that very same palace and the depiction of the mythological infidelity may alluded to that relationship. The paper analyses different sources which show that Francesco was often portrayed as Mars and Bianca as Venus: specific attention is given to the detailed description of their wedding celebrations which revolved around the theme of the meeting and love of Venus and Mars. It’s possible that the Del Vernaccia family, who owned the palace and commissioned the painting to Antonio Puglieschi, wanted to remember and somehow celebrate events that took place in those rooms more than a century before.
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Bell, Christopher. "Pehar and the Five King Spirits." In The Dalai Lama and the Nechung Oracle. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197533352.003.0002.
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Chapter 1 concerns the iconography and mythic origins of the protector deity Pehar and the Five King Spirits overall. This chapter specifically cites diverse mythological accounts of Pehar’s past, and his relationship to other deities, to not only introduce the reader to this deity but to illustrate how conflicting representations can offer opportunities for promoting certain characterizations. The stories cited in this chapter draw on Nyingma and Sakya texts predominantly, while noting how the imagery and themes in Pehar’s mythos reverberate through different communities who choose to understand the deity in different ways. This convoluted cluster of narratives nevertheless evince familiar tropes found across Buddhist, Tantric, and Tibetan milieus.
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Newman, William R. "Religion, Ancient Wisdom, and Newton’s Alchemy." In Newton the Alchemist. Princeton University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691174877.003.0003.
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This chapter analyzes several related themes, considering, for example, the relationship between Newton's exegesis of biblical prophecy and his method of interpreting the textual riddles presented by writers on the philosophers' stone. It also examines Newton's views on ancient wisdom and mythology in their relation to the aurific art, since many alchemists believed that the entertaining tales of the Greek and Roman pantheon contained veiled instructions for preparing the great arcanum. Previous scholarship has tended to assume that Newton too upheld the belief that ancient mythology was largely encoded alchemy. However, this would have presented a sharp conflict with his views on ancient chronology and religious history. Further evidence shows that Newton may well have considered the mythological themes transmitted and analyzed by early modern alchemists as conventional puzzles reworked from antique sources rather than as true expressions of ancient wisdom.
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Bohlman, Philip V. "The Nation and Its Fragments." In Song Loves the Masses. University of California Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520234949.003.0008.
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The first use of the word and concept, Volkslied (folk song), appears in Herder’s 1773 essay on the Ossian controversy, published in an influential volume of essays containing his own reflections the German character of art and culture, which included contributions by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, among other leading Enlightenment intellectuals. Herder’s Ossian essay gathers fragments from correspondence with an imagined reader, thus allowing him to relate many different themes from eighteenth-century debates about song and poetry, especially the possibilities of translation of ancient myth and epic into modern, national forms. The Ossian poems and songs were published as the evidence of a mythological Scottish bard, but were in fact falsified by the eighteenth-century Scottish writer, James Macpherson.
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"The Ekphrasis Eikonos of Procopius of Gaza: The Depiction of Mythological Themes in Palestine and Arabia During the Fifth and Sixth Centuries." In Christian Gaza in Late Antiquity. BRILL, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047405412_015.
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Buljan, Katherine, and Carole M. Cusack. "From Realistic to Supernatural: Genres in Anime." In Anime, Religion and Spirituality: Profane and Sacred Worlds in Contemporary Japan. Equinox Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/equinox.25889.
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This chapter focuses on anime genres, arguing that these provide a fertile basis from which sprang numerous generic hybrids. They became the norm in anime, with the potential to appeal to various types of audience. The power assigned to female heroines is also investigated and it is argued that rather than reflecting the power of Amaterasu, the Shinto Goddess, their power more resembles Western Pagan ideas about the sacredness of the earth and Gaia as nature Goddess. In this chapter we further underline how the generic conventions of the supernatural subgenre permeate a large number of anime films and series, stressing that conventions of this subgenre are also often found in generic hybrids whose dominant themes do not necessarily fit with the supernatural subgenre (and thus, in that context they have various metaphorical functions). This chapter also analyses the child/young adult anime protagonist in terms of the mythological ‘divine child’ as a mediator between the supernatural and physical worlds. Chapter 3 argues for the strength of the supernatural.
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"13 The Bow of Aqhat: The Meaning of a Mythological Theme." In Poets Before Homer. Penn State University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781575067230-015.
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Swift, Ellen. "Users." In Roman Artefacts and Society. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198785262.003.0008.
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Artefact design is not neutral, but is aimed, whether consciously or not, at different categories of users, as explained in Chapter 1. This chapter will explore design intentions as they relate to different user-groups in more detail, investigating some of the ways artefacts function to construct and maintain social categories, and also how these categories may be resisted or questioned by users. Firstly, we will examine how artefact design relates to the Roman life course, through an exploration of the motifs on finger-rings and the social categories of men, women, and children. Secondly, Roman attitudes to leftand right-handedness may be examined in relation to various items. Thirdly, we will examine some particular types of boxes and their methods of opening, artefacts in which cultural knowledge potentially impacts upon the facility with the objects may be used. In each case, we will consider how the design features may include or exclude certain users and what the implications are for a wider understanding of both Roman social practice, and the role of artefacts in enacting and reproducing social norms and behaviours. Finger-rings, among other personal artefacts, are scaled to a specific part of the body, and through this feature they provide an opportunity to examine how artefacts may have been designed for particular categories of people. Users will need rings with an appropriate diameter that is large enough to fit a particular digit, yet not so large that it risks becoming lost. Finger sizes of course vary according to age and sex, and so provide an opportunity to examine objects designed specifically for women, children, and men. We will focus here on those finger-rings displaying a central motif (usually engraved, although sometimes in relief, or occurring as a modelled form), which exist in large numbers. Most are oval in shape, and they are found in a wide range of sizes, from 9 to 27mm in inner horizontal diameter. Many are gem-set rings, and the gem iconography that they display was remarkably consistent across the Roman Empire, consisting of a range of popular themes such as the principal deities and/or their attributes, personifications, mythological scenes, animals, portraits, and objects.
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"2.9.4 Mythological digression on the daughter of Theias - Smyrna, Ha!. 3.402-408." In Stories from the Mountains, Stories from the Sea. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.13109/9783666252495.75.
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Kilinç, Uğur. "Vitalizing Ancient Cultures Mythological Storytelling in Metal Music." In Advances in Public Policy and Administration. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7661-7.ch042.
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This chapter is focused on the relationship between ancient narratives “music” and “mythology.” Technological developments and changes in social structure caused the occurrence of different music genres over time. “Metal music” is one of these genres. In the present day, it is possible to observe that there is a tendency to mythology in sub-genres of metal music. This tendency is observed in lyrics, album artworks, videos, and gig performances of some bands. In this chapter, metal music is examined based on its root, content, and technical features, primarily. Afterwards, mythology, content of mythology, and cultural and social functions of mythology are discussed. In the praxis of this study, the cover of the album Twilight of the Thunder God (2008) of the Swedish metal band Amon Amarth is analyzed by semiological analysis.
Conference papers on the topic "Mythological themes"
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Hendricks, Genevieve. "Le Corbusier’s Postwar Painterly Mythologies." In LC2015 - Le Corbusier, 50 years later. Universitat Politècnica València, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/lc2015.2015.828.
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Abstract: Le Corbusier’s graphic output was prolific, consisting of hundreds of paintings, thousands of drawings and watercolors, and scores of collages, lithographs, and murals throughout his career. By the late 1940s his double-nature as artist-architect emerged as a key component to his work, as he highlighted the correlations and correspondences that informed his creative endeavors. His post-war works, specifically his series of Taureaux paintings, reveal the development of such themes as well as the transformation of earlier works as he turned to a mythologically-inspired vocabulary of totemic figures and animals, developing a private cosmology of sun and moon, male and female, the machine and Mediterraneità. Keywords: Le Corbusier, Visual Arts, Painting, Taureaux. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/LC2015.2015.828