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You, Xiao. "Archetype and archetypal image in Chinese myths, legends and tales." Thesis, University of Essex, 2018. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/23484/.
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This research aims to examine Chinese myths, legends and tales from the perspective of analytical psychology. Considering that analytical psychologists have paid little attention to Chinese myths and that previous studies on Chinese myths from the standpoint of analytical psychology are lacking, this thesis investigates the universal archetype and its cultural carrier, or archetypal image, in Chinese mythical texts. First, this study examines both Jung’s engagement with Chinese culture, in order to see the function and significance of Chinese thought in analytical psychology, and the reception of Jungian thought in China, in order to demonstrate the lack of research on Chinese myths from the perspective of the theory of analytical psychology. Second, the study defines the concepts of archetype and archetypal image, and adopts the method of myth analysis from Jung and his followers to interpret Chinese motifs and symbols. Third, interpretations from the perspective of analytical psychology are applied to three motifs in Chinese culture: creation myths, flood myths and erotic anima figures. These provide materials for exploring similarities and differences in the mechanism and development of the human psyche between East and West. Fourth, this research concentrates on discussing two important Chinese symbols – Long (dragon) and Qi lin (unicorn) and their counterparts in western culture – by analysing these symbols at both the archetypal and cultural levels. The final part of this study explores the possible therapeutic value of Chinese myths in helping analysts to comprehend the human psyche and analysands to understand themselves in greater depth. This thesis fills a gap in the understanding of Chinese myth by means of Jungian psychology with the hope also of applying analytical psychology to Chinese culture more thoroughly and insightfully in both theoretical and practical contexts.
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Niro, Shelley. "An essential personal journey through Iroquois myths, legends, icons and history." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0006/MQ42249.pdf.
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Pike, Jonathan. "Magic Swords, Mythic Creatures, and Mighty Warriors: Archetypal Patterns in Fantasy Literature." Thesis, Boston College, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/438.
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Thesis advisor: Timothy DuketSynthesizing elements of so many traditions, fantasy has grown into perhaps the most pervasive genre of literature in the western world. The archetypal adventures and themes that have been carried into fantasy through ancient legends and myths have survived over the ages because it was decided long ago those tales had great worth. It was the unpopular and poorly formed legends that died out, while the superior stories were carried from culture to culture under new guises. In this way, fantasy can be seen as the culmination of human legends, filtered throughout history so that only the great tales remain. On what greater pedestal could a form of literature be based? Fantasy has even continued the refinement process in the last fifty years, with active writers like Jordan and Goodkind incorporating elements from the greatest of previous fantasy authors like Tolkien, Howard, and Donaldson. Thus fantasy is continually improving upon itself and evolving in new ways through its modification of old themes. How long can critics refuse to recognize fantasy as a legitimate form? With such admirable authors writing today, it seems logical that the answer would be sooner rather than later. Might fantasy be vanquished by sneering critics and replaced with another form of fiction? Gandalf claims even the Wise cannot see all ends, and while in no way do I profess such wisdom, I find it difficult to believe that, as the successor of mythology, fantasy will ever fizzle and die. A force greater than all the magic swords and rings combined would be necessary to kill four thousand years of human imagination
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2003
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: English
Discipline: College Honors Program
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Brunger, Fern M. "Safeguarding Mother Tamil in multicultural Quebec : Sri Lankan legends, Canadian myths, and the politics of culture." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=28425.
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I examine the concept of "culture" being promoted in the Canadian policy of multiculturalism and by Tamil refugees safeguarding their culture in Quebec. I take culture in its relation to power as my focus. I explore what culture means to the Tamils, and how the Canadian ideology of multiculturalism is implicated in the way Tamil "culture keepers" (re)construct their cultural identity.This research addresses popular "multiculturalism" movements which use anthropological notions of culture but fail to problematize the notion of culture itself. I illustrate how and why the concept of culture is itself culturally embedded and historically shaped, and thus dense with political implications.
It also addresses anthropological approaches which avoid realist ethnography because of its political implications. I argue that a focus on culture in its relation to power is necessary in order to examine anthropology's own continuing involvement in imperialism.
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Cardozo, Marlon Bruno Barros. "AS LENDAS DE SÃO LUIS DO MARANHÃO E UM IMAGINÁRIO EDUCACIONAL: um estudo hermeneutico e simbólico." Universidade Federal do Maranhão, 2015. http://tedebc.ufma.br:8080/jspui/handle/tede/101.
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This study seeks to understand the images of teachers and students schemes from narratives (oral and images). To this end, adopts the fundamental categories of the General Theory of Gilbert Durand Imaginary. This is a qualitative study and with some elements of the phenomenological approach. The subjects were teachers from public and private network and 7th graders of elementary education at a private school. Was based on the observation of the physical structure and projects of schools. With teachers was organizing a meeting and a questionnaire and students were held three meetings where students designed and narrated the legends. The archetype of the Serpent was the most noticed both enters the teachers and the students.
Este estudo busca compreender os regimes de imagens de professores e alunos a partir de narrativas (orais e imagens). Para tanto, adota como categorias fundamentais a Teoria Geral do Imaginário de Gilbert Durand. Tratase de um estudo qualitativo e com alguns elementos da abordagem fenomenológica. Os sujeitos da pesquisa foram professores da rede pública e privada e alunos do 7º ano do ensino fundamental de uma escola privada. Baseou-se na observação da estrutura física e projetos das escolas. Com os professores foi organizando um encontro e aplicado um questionário e com os alunos foram realizados três encontros, onde os alunos narraram e desenharam as lendas. O arquétipo da Serpente foi o mais notado tanto entres os professores quanto nos alunos.
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Aguilar, Angie I. "Not Just a Legend: The Gendered Conquest of a Spanish American Society." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/658.
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After the Mexican War of Independence (1810-1821) ending Spanish rule, Mexico formed a republic. By the 1880s there was ‘reformation’ in the Mexican church and the growth of ‘modernization’ in a caste based society governed by dictators. Amid all these changes, there was a growth of a nationalist ideology which sought to break free of Spanish roots in search of a new “Mexican” identity. As nationalism unfolded, there was a resurgence of some histories that became legends. I’ve noted a trend among legends with female protagonists, legends tend to portray women in a negative way. Two legends that have caught my attention emerge from the lives of two women from colonial Mexico. One is based on the life of Malinalli (Malintzin), a Nahuatl woman from sixteenth-century Mexico who at a young age was sold into slavery, but eventually became a talented interpreter, advisor and negotiator for Hernán Cortés during conquest. The other legend is about María Magdalena Dávalos y Orosco, a widowed woman from eighteenth-century Mexico who was able to gain control of her husband’s estate and manage many of his properties.
More often than not, I’ve found that the legends that transpired from the retelling of an account of past events women’s lives, exclude their accomplishments and emphasize their “deviant” tendencies. Through the use of oral histories, scholarly articles and texts relevant to Malintzin and María Magdalena’s circumstances, I will explore their legends to argue that they have a lot of valuable information to offer.
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Coates, G. "Representations of treachery in foundation myths of Iberia : a diachronic study of the legends of Fernán González, Bernardo del Carpio and Sancho II." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.597789.
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This dissertation examines the representation of treachery in three foundation myths of Iberia: Fernán González and the independence of Castile, Bernardo del Carpio, and Sancho II and the siege of Zamora. The project is a diachronic study which considers literary versions of these myths from both medieval and Golden Age Spain, with a view to comparing the representation of treachery across two historical time periods which share a close interest in the presentation of Spanish history, and through different literary versions of the legends, in epic, chronicle and theatre. Chapters 2 and 3 of the dissertation treat versions of these myths from the thirteenth century, in the Estoria de España (1252-84), and the Poema de Fernán González (c. 1250), whilst chapters 4 and 5 examine the reproduction of these legends in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, in the theatre of Golden Age Spain. I examine two plays by Juan de la Cueva, Comedia de la muerta del rey don Sancho, y reto de Çamora, por don Diego Ordóñez, and Comedia de la libertad de España por Bernardo del Carpio (1579-81), and four works by Lope de Vega: El casamiento en la muerte (1595-97), Las mocedades de Bernardo del Carpio (1599-1608), El conde Fernán González (1606-12) and Las almenas de Toro (1610-19). Broadly understood, the aim of this study is to provide a fuller understanding of the role of treachery in relation to the dynamics of group identity, both in these literary accounts and beyond.
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Ribeiro, Milton Martins. "SÃO DOMINGOS TRADIÇOES E CONFLITOS." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2008. http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/2264.
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Previous issue date: 2008-12-18The present study portrays the situation of São Domingos, a district where the Terra Ronca State Park is situated, not due to its environmental aspects, but especially, because of the oral history bias of its myths, legends and traditions. The objective of the research was to register and to document the diversity of the cultural expressions of the municipal district and to identify reasons for the reduction and disappearance of several manifestations. Therefore, the study opted for an exploratory nature based research, grounded on a qualitative approach. Data collection instruments were defined due to their purposes. Semi-structured interviews, field observations and document analysis were conducted. The Terra Ronca State Park was created in 1989 to protect a valuable speleological complex, in which seven of the thirty largest caves in Brazil are found. That municipal district, located in the goiano northeast, appeared in the period of the gold cycle and is nowadays inserted in an area considered as the poverty corridor of the State of Goiás. Its interior shelters a cultural and religious heritage, which is quite rich and diversified, as the Pilgrimage to Bom Jesus da Lapa , which has its cultural representation with masses, baptisms and parties developed inside a cave. Of the more than three hundred caves which compose the Park, the Terra Ronca cave is the best known and most surrounded by mysteries and legends. Among them, it is said that the cave served as a hiding place for the city s population when the Coluna Prestes , a group of rebels, passed through São Domingos. Nowadays, the people that live in the Park go through problems such as the reduction or disappearance of their cultural expressions, an outstanding characteristic of their regional identity. The results indicated that the implementation of the Conservation Unit of the Terra Ronca State Park was the great motivator of several conflicts, which could be noticed in issues related to the land. The Unit did not consider the reconciliation between the human occupation and the environmental preservation, provoking a strong feeling of rejection, insecurity and dissatisfaction among landowners in the area. This social-environmental conflict provoked serious reflexes on the maintenance and preservation of the cultural aspects, in particular, on the preservation of their myths, legends and traditions.
O presente estudo retrata a situação do Município de São Domingos, onde está inserido o Parque Estadual de Terra Ronca, não pela vertente ambientalista, mas especialmente sob o viés da história oral dos seus mitos, lendas e tradições. O objetivo da pesquisa foi registrar e documentar a diversidade das expressões culturais do município e identificar as razões da redução e desaparecimento de várias manifestações. Assim, optou-se por uma pesquisa de natureza exploratória, fundamentada na abordagem qualitativa. Os instrumentos de coleta de dados foram definidos em função de suas finalidades. Foram utilizadas entrevistas, observações de campo e análise de documentos. O Parque de Terra Ronca foi criado em 1989 para proteger um valioso complexo espeleológico no qual são encontradas sete das trinta maiores cavernas do Brasil. Nesse município, situado no nordeste goiano, surgido no período do ciclo do ouro, hoje está inserido em uma região considerada como o corredor da miséria do Estado de Goiás. O município possui um patrimônio cultural e religioso bastante rico e diversificado, como a Romaria do Bom Jesus da Lapa, que tem sua representação cultural com missas, batizados e festas, desenvolvidas dentro da gruta. Das mais de trezentas cavernas que compõem o Parque, a gruta Terra Ronca é a mais conhecida e a mais cheia de mistérios e lendas, entre elas, a de que serviu de esconderijo para a população da cidade, quando da passagem da Coluna Prestes por São Domingos. Nos dias atuais, a população vive problemas de redução ou de desaparecimento de algumas de suas expressões culturais, característica marcante de sua identidade regional. Os resultados indicaram que a implantação da Unidade de Conservação do Parque Estadual de Terra Ronca foi o grande motivador de diversos conflitos, que puderam ser percebidos nas questões fundiárias, que não considerou conciliar ocupação humana com preservação ambiental, provocando um forte sentimento de rejeição, insegurança e insatisfação nos proprietários de terras daquela localidade. Esse conflito sócio-ambiental proporcionou sérios reflexos sobre a manutenção dos aspectos culturais, particularmente, sobre seus mitos, lendas e tradições.
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Moss, Maria. "We've been here before women in creation myths and contemporary literature of the Native American southwest /." Münster : Lit, 1993. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/30100337.html.
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Maltez, Juliano Fabricio de Oliveira. "A Amazônia na ficção de José Veríssimo e Inglês de Sousa." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8149/tde-07122018-114936/.
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Este trabalho propõe uma leitura da obra ficcional de José Veríssimo (1857-1916) e Inglês de Sousa (1853-1918), especificamente, dos livros Cenas da Vida Amazônica (1886) e Contos Amazônicos (1893), que têm em comum a tomada ficcional do baixo Amazonas. Entendemos que o relato de viagem composto por expedicionários estrangeiros acarretou empréstimo estético e discursivo à narrativa amazônica, como os relatos produzidos por cientistas, por meio dos quais se vinculou o embate civilização e barbárie, o redescobrimento da paisagem amazônica e suas lendas. Além de uma análise mais geral dessas narrativas, traçando pontos de correlação com o relato de viagem, para Cenas da Vida Amazônica foi determinante o estudo da Revista Amazônica (1883-1884), no qual se pode verificar a correlação entre ficção e não-ficção, literatura e história, mito e ciência caminhando lado a lado, resultando nas características formais de O crime do tapuio, para Contos Amazônicos foi esclarecedor alguns texto de sua recepção, na medida em que se verificou uma crítica mais favorável às narrativas declaradas históricas, deixando em segundo plano as narrativas atreladas ao imaginário popular, como ficou renegado O gado do Valha-me-Deus, ainda que, alcançasse como outros textos em Contos Amazônicos uma forma mais refinada do gênero conto.This work proposes a reading of the fictional work of José Veríssimo (1857-1916) and the Inglês de Sousa (1853-1918), specifically from the books Scenes of Amazonian Life (1886) and Amazonian Tales (1893) fiction of the Lower Amazon. We understand that the travel account made up of foreign expeditionary brought an aesthetic and discursive loan to the Amazonian narrative, such as the reports produced by scientists, through which civilization and barbarism was linked, the rediscovery of the Amazonian landscape and its legends. In addition to a more general analysis of these narratives, tracing correlation points with the travel account, for the Amazonian Life Scenes was determinant the study of the Amazon Magazine (1883-1884), in which the correlation between fiction and non-fiction can be verified , literature and history, myth and science walking side by side, resulting in the formal characteristics of \"The crime of tapuio\", for Amazonian Tales was illuminating some text of its reception, in the measure that a criticism was verified more favorable to the narratives declared historical , leaving in the background the narratives linked to the popular imagination, as was denied \"The cattle of Good damn it\", although, as other texts in Amazonian Tales reached a more refined form of the genre.
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Renger, Almut-Barbara. "Zwischen Märchen und Mythos die Abenteuer des Odysseus und andere Geschichten von Homer bis Walter Benjamin : eine gattungstheoretische Studie /." Stuttgart : Metzler, 2006. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/76809073.html.
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Miltgen, Geoffrey. "De Marguerite Donnadieu à la Duras et à M. D. : la construction d’une figure auctoriale à l’époque de la trilogie indochinoise." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2022. https://docnum.univ-lorraine.fr/public/DDOC_T_2022_0005_MILTGEN.pdf.
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La réflexion portera sur l'œuvre de Marguerite Duras, auteure inclassable, complexe, et terreau fertile pour aborder l'épineuse question de la construction d'un mythe littéraire ou de ce que l’on appelle aujourd’hui une posture littéraire, qui est au cœur de ce projet de thèse. Le corpus a donc été défini en fonction de ce projet : les supports principaux de réflexion seront Un Barrage contre le Pacifique, L'Amant et L'Amant de la Chine du Nord, à un moment où l’auteur impose une figure auctoriale assise sur la mise en scène d’un roman familial et d’une légende personnelle. Le triptyque 'romanesque' constitue, en effet, la pièce la plus importante du puzzle de la vérité personnelle qu'elle a su imposer au lectorat. Mais d'autres œuvres seront prises en compte, la bibliographie de Duras étant émaillée de métaphores obsédantes perdues dans le no man's land de la vérité et de la fiction.En centrant la réflexion sur la double question de la posture littéraire et de la figure auctoriale, il s’agira, en délaissant la question de l'autobiographie et de la fiction, sujets maintes fois traités et quelque peu galvaudés aujourd'hui, d'analyser comment Marguerite Duras a réussi, sciemment ou inconsciemment, à tromper ses lecteurs, à s'inventer un destin et à se mettre en scène en tant qu’auteur. Les questions sur Duras convergent vers l'idée de l'écrivain qui construit son image, même au-delà de sa mort, à partir de l'épais brouillard qu'il installe. C'est aussi au cœur même de ce « mensonge » que se trouvent le plus souvent les manipulations secrètes de l'auteur, conscientes ou inconscientes, qui participent, avec l'aide de ses lecteurs, à l'érection de son mythe. Devenue « la Duras », au terme d'un long processus de création, de mémoire, de jeu, de distanciation, de dissociations, elle a fait sortir de son écriture courante sa légende en la tricotant et en la détricotant.Marguerite Duras représente donc un cas d’école pour quiconque s’intéresse à la manière dont un écrivain se construit une image publique, propre à orienter la réception de son œuvre et à en conforter la légitimation par le public et par la critique. Comment la petite Marguerite Donnadieu est-elle devenue « la Duras », puis enfin « M. D. » ? Comment un écrivain, en constante évolution, parvient à se transformer pour entrer dans l'Histoire avec son histoire, quitte à la créer de toutes pièces ? Ces questions sont omniprésentes chez Duras, qui invite également son lecteur à s'interroger sur la façon dont l'écrivain soigne son image, voire « se vend ». Il serait intéressant d'analyser subséquemment la manière avec laquelle celle-ci a joué avec les médias, tout en se jouant d'eux. Monstre médiatique légendaire libérée par la parole « autobiographique » à la publication de L'Amant en 1984, elle s'est en effet forgée une nouvelle identité, en s’érigeant en « papesse » du roman grâce à un mouvement perpétuel entre vie réelle et vie fantasméeBy focusing the reflection on the double question of literary posture and auctorial figure, the point will be to analyse how Marguerite Duras has succeeded, consciously or unconsciously, in betraying her readers, inventing her fate and setting herself up as an author, putting aside the question of autobiography and fiction, issues that have been treated so many times, and have often been overused. Questions on Duras converge towards the idea of the writer who builds her image, even beyond her death, from the thick fog she creates. It is also at the very heart of this “lie” one can find one of the author’s most secret manipulations, conscious or unconscious, that enables, with the help of her readers, the erection of her myth. When she became “La Duras”, at the end of a long process of creation, of memory, of game, of alienation, of dissociations, her everyday writing gave birth to her legend, knitting and unknitting it.Marguerite Duras is therefore a textbook case for whoever is interested in the way a writer builds her own public image, inspiring the reception of her work, and comforting its legitimation by critics and public. How did the little Marguerite Donnadieu become “La Duras”, and then finally “M. D.”? How did a writer, constantly evolving, manage to transform herself so as to enter History with her own story, even if she had to create it thoroughly? These questions are ever-present in Duras, who is also encouraging her reader to question the way a writer takes great care with her image, even selling “her soul”. Subsequently it would be interesting to analyse the way she played with the media, all the while mocking them. A legendary monster created by the media but freed by the “autobiographical” voice when “L’Amant” was published in 1984, she definitely forged herself a new identity by claiming to be the “High Priestess” of the novel thanks to a perpetual movement between real life and fantasized life
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Sánchez, Jean-Pierre. "Mythes et légendes de la conquête de l'Amérique : 1492-1542." Toulouse 2, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1988TOU20001.
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Cette thèse cherche à offrir le panorama le plus vaste possible des manifestations de l'imaginaire à l'époque de la découverte et de la conquête de l'Amérique. Les dates retenues, 1492-1542, qui correspondent à ce qui a été designé comme le "premier 16e siècle", ne sauraient être prises comme des limites contraignantes, surtout dans le cas des mythes. La réflexion porte cependant, en priorité, sur ces 50 années très riches en événements au cours desquelles l'imaginaire tint une grande place et favorisa amplement la poussée expansionniste européenne. L'ensemble du continent americain a été pris en considération, car les tentatives menées par les explorateurs concernent toutes les régions, du Canada à la Patagonie, et sont l'oeuvre de tous les peuples de l'Europe occidentale. Il est tenu grand compte des premiers échanges culturels, entre les indigènes americains et les explorateurs européens, qui se manifestent clairement à travers l'analyse detaillée des mythes et des légendes. Il s'agit essentiellement d'examiner les données géographiques, historiques et sociales qui pourraient expliquer les interventions de l'imaginaire. Ce travail veut amorcer une réflexion sur la mentalité et le comportement des individus de la fin du 15e siècle et du debut du 16e siècle dans le cadre particulier du nouveau mondeThis study offers a vast perspective on the various manifestations of the imagination at the time of the discovery and conquest of America. The dates 1492 - 1542 correspond approximately to the first half of the 16th century but are in no wise intended to be restrictive, especially as concerns myths. The work focuses, nevertheless, on this period of 50 years which is extremely rich in examples of the influence of the imagination on European expansionism. The whole of the American continent is studied, for the first explorers came from all the countries of Europe and ventured from Canada to Patagonia. The work provides an account of the initial cultural interchanges between American indians and European explorers which show clearly through a detailed analysis of the myths and legends of the time. The central feature is an examination of the geographical, historical and social data which may contribute to a better understanding of the role and influence of the imagination in the history of the time. The aim of this work is to lay down the basis for a study of attitudes and behaviour at the end of the 15th century and beginning of the 16th within the specific framework of the new world
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Erdl, Marc Fabian. "Die Legende von der politischen Korrektheit : zur Erfolsgeschichte eines importierten Mythos /." Bielefeld : Transcript, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40115644b.
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Dissertation--FB 3--Siegen--Universität, 2003. Titre de soutenance : Die Rede von der Korrektheit : Überlegungen zur Erfolsgeschichteund Attraktivität eines importierten Deutungsmusters.Bibliogr. p. 384-408.
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Gresens, Nicholas. "Genres of history Mythos, istoria, legend, and plasma in Strabo's "Geography" /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3380153.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Classical Studies, 2009.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 15, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4663. Adviser: Timothy Long. Includes supplementary digital materials.
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Pritchard, Maureen elizabeth christine. "LEGENDS BORNE BY LIFE: MYTH, GRIEVING AND THE CIRCULATION OF KNOWLEDGE WITHIN KYRGYZ CONTEXTS." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1243965149.
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Pritchard, Maureen Elizabeth Christine. "Legends borne by life myth, grieving and the circulation of knowledge within Kyrgyz contexts /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1243965149.
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Arthur, Bríd Caitrin. "Myth and reality : Lhasa's Jokhang temple and the legend of Wencheng /." Connect to resource, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1177610868.
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Arthur, Bríd Caitrin. "Myth and reality : Lhasa's Jokhang temple and the legend of Wencheng." The Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1177610868.
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Yamase, Shinji. "History and legend : an exploration of native Guatemalan texts." Thesis, University of Essex, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327094.
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Hoek-Springer, Sarah E. van der. "The horse in the Viking imagination." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.289156.
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Pérez, María-Kristina. "The myth of Morgan la Fey : motherhood and sexuality in Arthurian legend." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.612904.
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Müller, Sabina J. "Through the mythographer's eye : myth and legend in the work of Seamus Heaney and Eavan Boland /." Tübingen : Francke, 2005. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2897293&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Newell, Nicholas R. "A Reception History of Gilgamesh as Myth." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2013. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/rs_theses/41.
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The story of Gilgamesh has been viewed as an example of several different narrative genres. This thesis establishes how scholarship in English published between 1872 and 1967 has described Gilgamesh as a myth, or denied Gilgamesh status as a myth and discusses new the meanings that the context of myth brings to the story. This thesis represents preliminary work on a larger project of exploring present day artistic meaning making efforts that revolve around Gilgamesh.
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Huggins, Joan. "Portrayal of dominance in children's myth, story and legend, implications for educational administrators." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/MQ33454.pdf.
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Thomson, Alistair. "The Great War and Australian memory : a study of myth, remembering and oral history." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.292571.
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Stauber, Judith F. "Between the life and the image is the myth : the legend of Diane Arbus." Connect to resource, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1240497353.
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Klein, Marie Bastienne. "Dancing with the hangman : symbol, myth and ritual in the medieval German legend, the Schelmensage." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8050.
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Dancing with the hangman is an investigation into the medieval German legend known as the Schelmensage, which has its location in Bergen-Enkheim in Frankfurt, Germany - the town where I was born. It is a legend that concerns the manner in which a hangman became knighted by the emperor Barbarossa. I received the legend from my mother. My initial research question was to find out why the legend was being told for over a period of 900 years. The thesis investigation reveals the legend to be a German trickster myth, achieving this analysis using various theories to define it as myth. The work of Paul Ricoeur on mimesis, is cast in an arc of the prefigured world of action, the act of configuration and the ability of a person to reconfigure a situation or a life, which is applied so as to understand the structures which underlie the legend's meaning. Regarding the word Schelm as the symbolic core of this legend the thesis analyses this symbolism through its etymology, a structural analysis of its five different versions and its ritual performance in the play, Der Schelm von Bergen. The thesis considers the impact of being personally involved with the subject matter. The analysis is woven with personal episodes and this is defended as a reflexive methodolgy.
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Mnatsakanova, Maria. "Le mythe de Napoléon en Russie au XIX et au début du XX siècle." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040085.
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La personnalité de l’empereur, le bilan de son règne ont suscité toujours de nombreuses discussions tant en France qu’à l’étranger et la Russie n’a pas fait exception. Le corpus poétique et historique consacré à Napoléon a retenu mon attention car je me suis demandé quelles ont été les causes de la naissance du mythe napoléonien en Russie et comment sa perception a évolué au fil du temps. En analysant les ouvrages écrits par les historiens russes entre la chute de Napoléon et le début du XXe siècle et les œuvres littéraires des écrivains de cette période, on voit les changements dans l’image de l’empereur. La légende noire était de courte durée et après sa mort Napoléon devint le héros préféré des poètes tandis que les historiens essayèrent d’expliquer les événements ayant eu lieu en Europe au début du siècle. Le transfert des cendres de Napoléon marqua l’apogée de la légende ; en Russie elle commença à s’effacer après la mort de Lermontov et surtout après la parution de Guerre et Paix de Tolstoï. Au début du XXe siècle le mythe napoléonien n’émerveillait plus les poètes russes mais les historiens s’intéressèrent de plus en plus à l’époque impériale, aux relations franco-russes, à la politique intérieure de Napoléon. L’alliance franco-russe et le centenaire de la guerre de 1812 influencèrent positivement les études historiques mais les événements survenus après 1917 ont donné à la légende une autre dimension et d’autres significationsNapoleon’s personality and the results of his reign have always been a source of discussion both in France and elsewhere, nor is Russia an exception to this rule. The corpus of poems and writings on Napoleon attracted my attention: what were the causes of the birth of the Napoleonic myth in Russia, and how did attitudes towards the French emperor change over time? Analysis not only of works by Russian historians written after Napoleon’s death up to the beginning of the 20th century, but also of literary works from the same period, reveals changes in the image of the Emperor. The black legend lasted for only a brief time, and after his death Napoleon became a hero for poets. And historians looked positively on the emperor as they attempted to explain the events that had taken place in Europe at the beginning of the century. The transfer of Napoleon’s mortal remains back to France in 1840 marks the apogee of the golden legend. In Russia, this legend began to wane after the death of Lermontov and especially after the publication of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. At the beginning of the 20th century, whilst the Napoleonic myth no longer excited Russian poets, historians on the other hand grew more and more interested in imperial period, Franco-Russian relations, and Napoleon’s internal policy. The Franco-Russian alliance and the centenary of the Campaign of 1812 influenced historical studies positively, but the events occurring in Russia after 1917 gave the legend another dimension and other meanings
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Varley, David Hugh. "The whirling wheel : the male construction of empowered female identities in Old Norse myth and legend." Thesis, Durham University, 2015. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11057/.
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This thesis examines the body of medieval literature associated with Old Norse myth and legend. Though this is a diffuse corpus produced over a long span of time and from a wide geographical area, it is possible to establish connections between texts and to highlight certain recurring narrative patterns that are deeply entrenched in this literary tradition. The specific focus of the present study is to analyse the narrative patterns that characterise the interactions between male and female figures. It has long been understood that female figures tend to occupy carefully defined social roles in this body of literature, and much work has been done in assessing these. This thesis takes the unique approach of investigating whether these roles can be viewed, not as a product of the mentality of the writers of this literary material, but rather as a product of male characters within the literary narratives themselves. The investigation poses the question of whether men can be seen, through their words, thoughts, and actions, to be responsible for creating female identities. Intimately connected to the concept of identity creation is the idea of power: this thesis will argue that most male attempts to redefine female identity is motivated by a desire to acquire, control, negate, or otherwise alter, the powers possessed by females. Quite often, because fallible males demonstrate an imperfect understanding of female power, there can be a marked disparity between the abilities certain women are thought to possess, and those they actually do. The thesis will examine a large selection of supernatural female figures, across a broad range of literature, ultimately to suggest that the male creation of female power is deeply entrenched in narrative patterns observable in many different contexts.
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Greiff, Bergström Tora. "O Flower of Scotland : Scottishness in Outlander." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-55123.
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The aim of this essay is to examine Scottishness in the television series Outlander, to see if it has the potential to contribute with national identities, despite being a large-scale American production which tends to present stereotypical representations. The depiction is of the Scottish Highlands in the 18th century when the Highland culture was diminished. Using a semiotic approach, I analyse visual signs and find key elements which are used to represent the Highland culture. The series is based on a romantic plot and has stereotypical elements in representing Scotland and its culture. However, I argue that despite the stereotypical representations, the ethnic group in question still can gain national emotion from the depiction. This, because of Scotland’s already romanticized history and heritage culture today. The study comes to the conclusion that a popular media representation, like Outlander, can have an impact on a nation’s identity and even politics, by reconstructing historical legends in a modern world and bringing forth a sense of belonging-ness in excess of the stereotypes accompanied.
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Stebbins, Maegan Ann. "The Werewolf: Past and Future." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77877.
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Since before recorded history, werewolves have captivated human imagination. Simultaneously, they represent our deepest fears as well as our desire to connect with our primal ancestry. Today, werewolves are portrayed negatively, associated with violence, cruelty, cannibalism, and general malevolence. However, in ages past, legends depicted them not as monsters, but as a range of neutral to benevolent individuals, such as traveling companions, guardians, and knights. The robust legacy of the werewolf spans from prehistory, through ancient Greece and Rome, to the Middle Ages, into the Early Modern period, and finally into present-day popular culture. Over the ages, the view of the werewolf has become distorted. Media treatment of werewolves is associated with inferior writing, lacking in thought, depth, and meaning. Werewolves as characters or creatures are now generally seen as single-minded and one-dimensional, and they want nothing more than to kill, devour, and possibly violate humans. Hollywood depictions have resulted in the destruction of the true meanings behind werewolf legends that fascinated and terrified humans for so many ages. If these negative trends were reversed, perhaps entertainment might not only discover again some of the true meanings behind the werewolf myth, but also take the first steps toward reversing negative portrayals of wolves themselves, which humans have, for eons, wrongfully stigmatized and portrayed as evil, resulting in wolves receiving crueler treatment than virtually any other animal. To revive the many questions posed by lycanthropy, entertainment must show respect to the rich history of the legend — and rediscover the benevolent werewolf.Master of Arts
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Salhi, Sonia. "Mythes et légendes dans la didactique du Français langue étrangère." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014TOU20052/document.
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La présente recherche s’inscrit dans le cadre de la didactique des mythes en classe de Français Langue Etrangère. Elle s’interroge sur les différents problèmes rencontrés au niveau de l’exploitation des mythes en classe de FLE en Tunisie et s’articule autour de trois grands axes de recherche. Le premier axe est consacré au cadre théorique se rapportant aux catégories mythiques et leurs enjeux alors que le deuxième consiste à attirer l’attention sur le statut privilégié des mythes dans les programmes officiels tunisiens. Il rend compte de leur exploitation dans les pratiques de classe à travers un module d’apprentissage au programme des troisièmes. Le troisième volet expose les résultats d’une enquête sur le terrain pour ressortir les représentations que se font les élèves du texte littéraire mythique et les problèmes qui s’opposent à la réception de ce genre de récit. L’enquête aboutit à un plan d’action et à des propositions didactiques dont le rôle est de sensibiliser les jeunes à la lecture du texte littéraire impliquant le mythe, agir contre leurs représentations pour aider à la préservation d’un patrimoine culturel universel et à l’amélioration de la qualité du système scolaire tunisienThis research is registered in the outline of myths didactics in classes of French taught as a Foreign Language. It examins the different problems encountered while dealing with myths in classes of FFL in Tunisia. It in fact, goes round three big axes of research. The first axis is about the theoretical plan which is linked to the mythical categories and their stakes whereas the second axis consists in catching the eye on the privileged status of myths in Tunisian official programs. It renders an account of their exploitation in classes practices via a learning module in the third form programm. The third axis sets out the results of a research in progress so as to take out the representation that pupils make of a mythical literary text and the difficulties set against the reception of such genre of account. This research leads to a programm of studies and didactic propositions which role is to make yougesters aware of the importance of a literary text including a myth, act against their representations so as to help in protecting the universal cultural patrimony and the improving of the quality of the Tunisian academic system
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Luzyte, Rasa. "A thealogy of Mary : the non-Christian myth of Mary, the shadow of Mary and an individual connection to the divine self through Mary." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/20251.
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My work on the thealogy of Mary conveys a largely subjective way of thinking, it does not claim to present the view of any group, and it does not profess a theoretical agenda for a cult or a religious movement of Mary. The framework of this work is grounded in symbolic (legends, fairy tales and images), psychological (the structure of the psyche according to Carl Gustav Jung: the Self, the conscious, the unconscious, the Shadow) and imaginative (individual interpretations of narratives and images) spheres that are combined with feminist spirituality theories, religious philosophy and literary analysis. In my thesis, I offer a non-Christian myth of Mary which I form out of the folklore narratives about Mary. In my work, Mary is understood as the female divine archetype on the collective level, and as an expression of the Self on the individual level. Following Jung’s theory, the archetypes are forms and not contents, that is, an archetype can be comparable to an empty shell, which we fill with our own experience or with narratives that are meaningful to us. I take the image of Mary out of the Roman Catholic context and give it a new mythological narrative. This means to me a possibility not only to acquire a non-Christian myth of Mary but also to develop an individual relationship with the divine in its female personification. On the collective level, the thealogy of Mary creates a spiritual and psychological sphere in which the female divine has a possibility to outweigh the one-sidedness of the past few thousand years of the male predominance in the religious philosophy in the West.
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Gaitzsch, Jens. "Mythos Gräfin Cosel: Zur Rezeptionsgeschichte der Anna Constantia von Brockdorff (1680-1765)." Jens Gaitzsch, 2020. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A71023.
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Die Erinnerung an die Lebensgeschichte der Gräfin Cosel verdanken wir den Literaten. Wie bei nur wenigen Personen der sächsischen Geschichte vermischen sich dabei Mythos und Wahrheit, Legenden und Wirklichkeit. Der ausführliche Aufsatz zeichnet den Weg dieser Überlieferung von den Anfängen noch zu Lebzeiten der Gräfin bis in die Gegenwart nach und zeigt, wie sich jede Epoche ihre Cosel schuf.
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Daniotti, Claudia. "On the cusp of legend and history : the myth of Alexander the Great in Italy between the fifteenth and sixteenth century." Thesis, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2016. http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/6350/.
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This dissertation concerns the reception of the myth of Alexander the Great in Italian art during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In particular, I discuss the turning-point in the tradition which took place in Renaissance Italy around the middle of the fifteenth century: the transition from the medieval imagery of Alexander as a legendary, almost fairy-tale, figure to the historical portrait of him as an exemplum of moral virtue and military prowess. On the basis of the corpus known as the Alexander Romance, during the Middle Ages Alexander was depicted as a fabled explorer and knight, whose marvellous adventures enjoyed huge popularity both in the literary tradition and in the visual arts. Around the mid-fifteenth century, with the changing cultural atmosphere associated with the rise of humanism, this medieval conception was superseded by a different image of Alexander, drawing on the newly discovered ancient historical accounts of Plutarch, Curtius Rufus, Arrian and Diodorus Siculus. There are five chapters, all illustrated, plus an introduction and conclusion. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the literary and iconographic tradition of Alexander in Italy from 1100 to 1400, exploring the most popular episodes from the legend. In Chapter 2, I present examples of the persistence of the legendary tradition in the Quattrocento (especially, some fresco cycles of the Nine Worthies). Chapter 3 is concerned with the humanist recovery of ancient sources and its impact on the received view of Alexander; the important contribution of Petrarch and Boccaccio is also examined. Chapter 4 deals with the emergence of a new Renaissance portrait of Alexander around 1450, notably in paintings on marriage chests. In Chapter 5 I discuss the development of this new image of Alexander in the sixteenth century, with the establishment of an iconographic repertoire, centring on novel episodes taken from ancient historical sources.
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Olson, Ted. "The 1927 Bristol Sessions and Ralph Peer: A Myth and A Legend Losing Luster in the Cold Light of Recent Scholarship." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1203.
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Excerpt: The so-called 1927 Bristol sessions—the recording sessions conducted in Bristol, Tennessee/Virginia, during July-August 1927 by A&R (Artists & Repertoire) producer Ralph Peer and his employer, the Victor Talking Machine Company—garnered relatively little attention until the 1970s. At that point, a few scholars (notably, music historians Charles K. Wolfe, Bill C. Malone, Tony Russell, and Nolan Porterfield) and some serious music fans began to view this long-ago event in a small Appalachian city as one of the most important recording sessions of all time.
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Gomes, Andréa Caselli. "O culto à Oxorongá nos templos de candomblé: um fenômeno contemporâneo na cidade do Recife." Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, 2015. http://www.unicap.br/tede//tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1086.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorO presente trabalho propõe enfoque sobre uma recente mudança nas formas de religiosidade das casas de candomblé da região metropolitana do Recife: o culto às Iami, entidades femininas presentes na mitologia iorubá. Desde o início do século XXI, o culto originalmente secreto e exclusivamente feminino às entidades ancestrais designadas como Iami tem sido assunto polêmico e controverso entre os adeptos das religiões afro-brasileiras, principalmente entre os que buscam a reafricanização em suas vivências religiosas. No estado de Pernambuco há templos e adeptos que exercem esse culto deliberadamente, muitas vezes sem conhecer profundamente suas raízes tradicionais; observa-se um resgate contemporâneo de uma atividade que há muito tempo perdeu seu significado original, visto que as novas práticas acarretam recentes elaborações de mito e de rito sobre o aspecto feminino. A referida atividade vem sendo adotada e explorada por homens, sendo eles os responsáveis pela recente popularização do culto, principalmente entre os novos adeptos. Os instrumentos metodológicos utilizados foram a bibliografia histórica sobre o tema, a literatura de lendas e mitos coletados por etnógrafos e referências por autores das áreas da antropologia, da história, e da psicologia; a garantir que a pesquisa tenha caráter transdisciplinar e que favoreça o diálogo inter-religioso. O material foi sistematizado em um referencial teórico fundamentado nas concepções do antropólogo Gilbert Durand sobre imaginário, do antropólogo Nestor Garcia Canclini sobre hibridismo cultural e do etnólogo Pierre Verger sobre ancestralidade iorubá. Foram verificadas, através de pesquisas qualitativas, as origens e influências que resultaram neste fenômeno, e igualmente os fatores sociais que possibilitaram seu surgimento e sua rápida expansão, entre as quais se incluem o resgate do axé feminino e a formação de novas identidades na religiosidade afro-brasileira em um contexto pós-moderno de rápida transformação.
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Castleman, Michele Daniele. "Meeting Gods: The re-presentation and inclusion of figures of myth in early twenty-first century young adult and middle grade children’s novels." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306352172.
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Ferreira, Lourdes Nazaré Sousa. "Narrativas míticas nas obras Série Lendas Amazônicas de Waldemar Henrique e Orfãos do Eldorado de Milton Hatoum: marcas identitárias amazônicas." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2012. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14709.
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Previous issue date: 2012-10-26The thesis proposes detect by analyzing compositions of five so-called "Amazon Legends Series" by Waldemar Henrique Pará, and the novel "Orphans of Eldorado", the Amazon Milton Hatoum, the marks of mythic narratives in shaping regional identity.The Amazonian mythic narratives are based on imaginary hillbilly rich and fantastical episodes, which now serve as the theme over the years, for inspiration and poetic literary constructions. Authors like Waldemar Hatoum and stand out, such as promoters and imaginary in his works reveal the values, beliefs, experiences and behaviors experienced by his characters in the Amazon region. A collection of (poetry) songs of poet and composer Waldemar Henrique translates through mythic narratives sung, the riverine life full of language itself in the Amazon region and indigenous traditions, enriched content about seduction, charm forest, private wealth, religiosity; respect for beings of the forest. The poet seems to perpetuate the Amazonian culture through art spoken and sung. In Hatoum, narratives of native people reveal a space full of conflict, establishing his characters search for a perfect place, the lost Eden in the early times and continually sought by man. Waldemar and Hatoum show that the myths and legends, even if understood as a product of the imagination, in fact interfere with those who believe in them and mark the characterization of identity Amazon. The adopted methodological resources are divided into literature, documentary and analysis tools (and narrative compositions) of the authors in question.To achieve the objectives, the research develops a descriptive way, which shows that Waldemar and Hatoum, record that the Amazon myths still flourish robust, contributing to a polyphony of voices heard in the region, disclosing a place of vast imaginary dimensions, whose inventory accounts, will never be closed
A Dissertação propõe detectar por meio da análise de cinco composições das chamadas Série Lendas Amazônicas , do paraense Waldemar Henrique, e da novela Órfãos do Eldorado , do amazonense Milton Hatoum, as marcas das narrativas míticas na formação identitária regional. As narrativas míticas na Amazônia são fundadas no imaginário caboclo e ricas de episódios fantásticos, os quais passaram a servir de temática ao longo dos anos, para a inspiração poética e construções literárias. Autores como Waldemar e Hatoum destacam-se, como divulgadores desse imaginário e revelarem em suas obras os valores, as crenças, experiências e comportamentos vivenciados pelas suas personagens no contexto amazônico. A coletânea de (poesias) canções do poeta e compositor Waldemar Henrique traduz, por meio de narrativas míticas cantadas, a vida ribeirinha recheada de linguajar próprio da região amazônica e de tradições indígenas, enriquecidas de conteúdos sobre sedução; encantos da floresta; riquezas particulares, religiosidade; respeito aos seres da mata. O poeta parece querer perpetuar a cultura amazônica por meio da arte falada e cantada. Em Hatoum, as narrativas do povo nativo revelam um espaço cheio de conflitos, estabelecendo a busca de suas personagens por um lugar perfeito, o Éden perdido no início dos tempos e continuamente procurado pelo homem. Waldemar e Hatoum mostram que os mitos e as lendas, mesmo sendo compreendidas como produto do imaginário, interferem na realidade daqueles que nelas acreditam e marcam a caracterização da identidade amazônica. Os recursos metodológicos adotados dividem-se em pesquisa bibliográfica, documental e análise dos instrumentos (composições e narrativa) dos autores em questão. Para alcançar os objetivos, a pesquisa se desenvolve de forma descritiva, a qual mostra que Waldemar e Hatoum, registram que na Amazônia os mitos ainda vicejam robustos, contribuindo para uma polifonia de vozes ouvida na região, divulgando um lugar de amplas dimensões imaginárias, cujas contas do inventário, jamais serão fechadas
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Souza, Mirian Matulio de. "A RELIGIOSIDADE DO GUARANÁ NA CULTURA DOS SATERÉ-MAUÉ." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2011. http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/830.
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Previous issue date: 2011-03-15This dissertation examines and emphasizes the religiosity aspect and its relevance in the cultural history of guarana, in which the key point is explained and meaning in the myth of origin of sateré-maué. It was developed as the important data have been cataloged in order to provide sustainability to the foundation and purpose of this analysis. This dissertation is an attempt to explain from the point of view of anthropology, philosophical and theological issues surrounding his myth and the guarana. In the first chapter introduces the concept of culture and its relationship with the religious phenomenon. In the second chapter explains the religiosity of guaranaculture sateré-maué from the concept of myth and analysis of their oral tradition about the origin of guarana. The third chapter, highlights the city of Maués as geographical and cultural space in which the guarana is an element of identity of the people.
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Temperton, Barbara. "The Lighthouse keeper's wife, and other stories (novel) ; and Ceremony for ground : narrative, landscape, myth (dissertation)." University of Western Australia. English, Communication and Cultural Studies Discipline Group, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0005.
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The focus of this project is on poetry, narrative, landscape and myth, and the palimpsest and/or hybridisation created when these four areas overlay each other. Our local communities' engagement with myth-making activity provides a golden opportunity for contemporary poets to continue the practice long established by our forebears of utilising folklore and legendary material as sources for poetry. Keeping in mind the words of M. H. Abrams who said
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Moukaled, Sina. "(الرموز الدلالية عند أنسي الحاج وجورج جرداق (أعلام بين الصحافة والأدب." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCF004.
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Cette thèse porte sur les codes sémantiques chez Ounsi el-Hajj et Georges Jurdaq en comparant leurs écrits entre le journalisme et la littérature. La thèse traite le rôle de la presse dans la propagation du symbole et du symbolisme dans le mouvement de la littérature. Ounsi el-Hajj et Georges Jurdaq se sont servi et ont profité de la presse pour pouvoir investir les symboles dans leurs essais. Ces symboles deviennent des moyens pour exprimer des intentions de traiter l’histoire, la religion, le mythe et le patrimoine. La thèse aborde les symboles et leurs significations chez les deux écrivains-journalistes ; le symbolisme ne se limite plus à la poésie uniquement en raison de l'ambiguïté qu’il entretient mais il la dépasse pour atteindre la littérature et en particulier la littérature de l’essaiThis thesis deals with the semantic codes used by Ounsi el-Hajj and Georges Jurdaq and it compares their writings between journalism and literature. The thesis deals with the influence of the press in the propagation of symbolism in the movement of literature. Ounsi el-Hajj and Goerges Jurdaq took advantage of the press to be able to invest symbols in their essays. These symbols become means of expressing intentions to deal with history, religion, myth and heritage. The thesis deals with the symbols and their meanings used by the two writers-journalists; symbolism is no longer restricted to poetry solely because of the ambiguity it maintains but it goes beyond it to reach literature and especially the literature of the essay
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Johannmeyer, Anke. ""For Music Has Wings" : E. M. Forster's 'Orchestration' of a Homophile Space in The Longest Journey." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-120397.
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Santos, Tania Lima dos. "A (re)escritura mítica do sebastianismo no Romance d A Pedra do Reino, de Ariano Suassuna." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2009. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/6237.
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This work proposes a study of the sebastianist legend as mythical matter in Romance d A pedra do Reino (RPR). We assume, supported by Northrop Frye, Carl Jung, Mircea Eliade, Joseph Campbell and Gilbert Durand the perspective in which the myth remains but restore itself infinitely by images and archetypical symbolism. First, we reach to rebuild the conforming cultural essence of the fictional s sebastianist legends of Portugal and Brasil identifying its archetypical components. Thus, we look for sebastianist messianic references, for its thesis and discourse, in the plurilinguistic design of RPR, considering its relevance in the mythical discourse s configuration of the narrative. We notice a forceful tension between apocalyptical and demoniac images, resulting from narrator-protagonist idealistic view and his involvement in realistic world incongruence, pointing myth s dislocations and ironic manner predominance in the narrative. Besides the external and unconcluded character s contest, connected to the judicial process and to the production of his Obra de Gênio da Raça (Genius Lineage/Race Work), foundation stone to his sebastianist messianic kingdom of the Fifth Empire, we distinguish some inner demand linked to his way to maturity which doesn t consolidate effectively. The character s project and their temporary dismissal state plus his expectation of its accomplishment in a not far future constitutes the most important sebastianist messianic bias in the production, strengthened by other thematic recurrences in the Pedra Bonita s sebastianist legend, and make possible still the establishment of a more fertile analogy to the Portuguese manifestation. These different fronts of myth s restoration grant universality and absence of temporality to RPR.
Este trabalho propõe um estudo da lenda sebastianista como matéria mítica no Romance d A Pedra do Reino (RPR), de Ariano Suassuna. Assumimos, com o auxílio das teorizações de Northrop Frye, subsidiadas por Carl Jung, Mircea Eliade, Joseph Campbell, e Gilbert Durand, a perspectiva de que o mito permanece e se atualiza infinitamente por meio de imagens e simbolismos arquetípicos. Buscamos inicialmente reconstruir os veios culturais conformadores do imaginário das lendas sebastianistas de Portugal e do Brasil e identificar seus componentes arquetípicos. Em seguida buscamos as recorrências do messianismo sebástico no tecido plurilinguista do RPR, temática e discursivamente, considerando sua relevância na configuração do discurso mítico na obra. Verificamos a existência de uma forte tensão entre imagens apocalípticas e demoníacas, decorrente da incongruência entre a visão idealista do narrador-protagonista e o mundo realista em que se encontra envolvido, evidenciando os deslocamentos do mito na obra e o predomínio das convenções do modo irônico. Ao lado da demanda exterior e não concluída do personagem, ligada ao processo judicial e à criação de sua Obra de Gênio da Raça , pedra fundamental para a instalação de seu reino messiânico-sebastianista do Quinto Império, distinguimos uma demanda interior ligada a seu percurso rumo à maturidade, o qual não se consolidada efetivamente. O estado de suspensão nos projetos do personagem e a expectativa de sua concretização num futuro próximo constituem o viés messiânico-sebastianista mais importante na obra, fortalecido pelas demais recorrências temáticas da lenda sebastianista de Pedra Bonita, e possibilitam ainda o estabelecimento de uma analogia mais fértil com a manifestação sebastianista portuguesa. Essas diferentes frentes de atualização do do mito na narrativa conferem ao RPR sua universalidade e a intemporalidade.
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Santos, Luzia Aparecida Oliva dos [UNESP]. "Mito, lenda e história em Matrinchã do Teles Pires: a construção do terreno ficcional." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/99132.
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santos_lao_me_sjrp.pdf: 426599 bytes, checksum: 3176945f8cf0bbb0c9d25106ac0a4943 (MD5)O exercício de análise acerca da obra Matrinchã do Teles Pires tende emergir os aspectos literários que a constituem na construção da temática do mito da busca, na recriação da lenda do profeta João Maria e na releitura de acontecimentos históricos. O percurso de leitura e de produção de sentido percorre os três elementos principais, o mítico, o lendário e o histórico, desfibrando-os para reconhecer, em seu interior, a coerência no conjunto dos procedimentos estéticos que lhe asseguram o caráter de ficção. O aspecto mítico retoma, parodisticamente, o enredo do Livro do Êxodo e manifesta-se na travessia de milhares de brasileiros que deixaram suas terras, suas tradições para irem em busca de seu sonho: a terra prometida. A lenda do profeta reconstrói-se a partir das variantes que se estendem em vários espaços, desde Sorocaba, São Paulo, passando pelo conflito do Contestado e se recriando em Eleutério, personagem central da obra em estudo. Um andarilho que assume o caráter messiânico após a morte de seu ídolo histórico, Getúlio Vargas, e duplica as ações do primeiro monge em terras mato-grossenses. A presença do fator histórico na narrativa marca-se no resgate da era Vargas e dos projetos de expansão nacional que vão desencadear o movimento migratório para o norte do estado de Mato Grosso. Para o desenvolvimento do estudo desses pontos na composição da estrutura são utilizadas teorias e bibliografias específicas. Posteriormente, consideram-se os fundamentos da narrativa para a constituição do narrador, centro da investigação, que funciona como elemento catalisador entre as outras categorias como tempo, espaço, enredo e personagens. Todos esses fragmentos são cimentados no mosaico ficcional pela ironia sutil e pela pluralidade de vozes que dão a obra um perfil pós-moderno.
The analysis exercise concerning the novel Mantrinchã do Teles Pires tends to emerge the literary aspects which constitute in the thematic construction of the myth research, in the legend recreation of the prophet João Maria and in the re-reading of historical happenings. The reading course and the sense production go through the three main elements: the mythical, the legendary and the historical, analysing them to recognize, in its interior, the coherence in the aesthetic set of procedures that assure it the fiction character. The mythical aspect retakes, in a parody way, the plot of Exodus Book and manifests in the crossing of thousands of Brazilians who left their lands and tradition to go through their dream: the promised land. The prophet legend reconstructs from versions that extend in several spaces, from Sorocaba, São Paulo, passing by Contestado conflict and recreating itself in Eleutério, the main character of the book. A hiker who assumes the messianic character after his historical idol death, Getúlio Vargas, and doubles the first monk action in the lands of Mato Grosso. The historical factor presence in the narrative fixes itself in the rescue of Vargas Era and of national expansion projects which will trigger off the migratory movement to the North of the state of Mato Grosso. For the study development of these points in the structure composition we will use specific theories and bibliographies. Afterwards, we will consider the narrative basis to the narrator constitution, the main point of this research, which works as the catalyst element between the other categories like time, space, plot and characters. All these fragments are cemented on the fictional mosaic by subtle irony and by plurality of voices which give to the work a post-modern profile.
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Lukajic, Radana. "L'écriture de l'histoire et l'écriture de soi dans l'oeuvre de Marguerite Yourcenar." Thesis, Tours, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010TOUR2031.
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Dans notre travail qui porte sur les productions romanesques majeures de Marguerite Yourcenar, nous nous sommes proposé de suivre deux axes d’investigation : d’un côté, l’écriture de l’histoire, qui s’avère être indissolublement liée à une vision mythique du monde ; et de l’autre, l’écriture de soi, celle-ci amplement définie par les conceptions empruntées au bouddhisme qui cherchent à dénoncer l’illusion du « je » et la vacuité substantielle de toute notion identitaire. Ceci dit, nous avons tâché de montrer que l’écriture autobiographique de notre auteur devient amplement problématisée pour être muée enfin en une écriture hétérobiographique. De même, nous avons essayé de dégager une certaine réversibilité de thèmes et de procédés narratifs qui est à l’origine de la fluctuation générique des œuvres romanesques de M. YourcenarIn our paper, we suggest two planes of the examination of Marguerite Yourcenar’s major novels: on the one hand, her novels are seen as a form of a narrative indistinguishably associated with a mythic vision of the world; on the other hand, they are seen as the writing of the self, utterly defined by the concepts based on Buddhism that denounce the illusion of ‘’I’’ and substantially leave out the notion of identity. Having stated this, we endeavor to show that the autobiographical writing of the author in question becomes greatly problematized as it is being misinterpreted as a heterobiographic piece of writing. We have also tried to clear out some uncertainties about themes and narrative procedures which are the basis of generic fluctuations of Marguerite Yourcenar’s novels
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Santos, Luzia Aparecida Oliva dos. "Mito, lenda e história em Matrinchã do Teles Pires : a construção do terreno ficcional /." São José do Rio Preto : [s.n.], 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/99132.
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Orientador: Sérgio Vicente MottaBanca: Antonio Roberto Esteves
Banca: Sônia Helena de Oliveira Raymundo Piteri
Resumo: O exercício de análise acerca da obra Matrinchã do Teles Pires tende emergir os aspectos literários que a constituem na construção da temática do mito da busca, na recriação da lenda do profeta João Maria e na releitura de acontecimentos históricos. O percurso de leitura e de produção de sentido percorre os três elementos principais, o mítico, o lendário e o histórico, desfibrando-os para reconhecer, em seu interior, a coerência no conjunto dos procedimentos estéticos que lhe asseguram o caráter de ficção. O aspecto mítico retoma, parodisticamente, o enredo do Livro do Êxodo e manifesta-se na travessia de milhares de brasileiros que deixaram suas terras, suas tradições para irem em busca de seu sonho: a terra prometida. A lenda do profeta reconstrói-se a partir das variantes que se estendem em vários espaços, desde Sorocaba, São Paulo, passando pelo conflito do Contestado e se recriando em Eleutério, personagem central da obra em estudo. Um andarilho que assume o caráter messiânico após a morte de seu ídolo histórico, Getúlio Vargas, e duplica as ações do primeiro monge em terras mato-grossenses. A presença do fator histórico na narrativa marca-se no resgate da era Vargas e dos projetos de expansão nacional que vão desencadear o movimento migratório para o norte do estado de Mato Grosso. Para o desenvolvimento do estudo desses pontos na composição da estrutura são utilizadas teorias e bibliografias específicas. Posteriormente, consideram-se os fundamentos da narrativa para a constituição do narrador, centro da investigação, que funciona como elemento catalisador entre as outras categorias como tempo, espaço, enredo e personagens. Todos esses fragmentos são cimentados no mosaico ficcional pela ironia sutil e pela pluralidade de vozes que dão a obra um perfil pós-moderno.
Abstract: The analysis exercise concerning the novel Mantrinchã do Teles Pires tends to emerge the literary aspects which constitute in the thematic construction of the myth research, in the legend recreation of the prophet João Maria and in the re-reading of historical happenings. The reading course and the sense production go through the three main elements: the mythical, the legendary and the historical, analysing them to recognize, in its interior, the coherence in the aesthetic set of procedures that assure it the fiction character. The mythical aspect retakes, in a parody way, the plot of Exodus Book and manifests in the crossing of thousands of Brazilians who left their lands and tradition to go through their dream: the promised land. The prophet legend reconstructs from versions that extend in several spaces, from Sorocaba, São Paulo, passing by Contestado conflict and recreating itself in Eleutério, the main character of the book. A hiker who assumes the messianic character after his historical idol death, Getúlio Vargas, and doubles the first monk action in the lands of Mato Grosso. The historical factor presence in the narrative fixes itself in the rescue of Vargas Era and of national expansion projects which will trigger off the migratory movement to the North of the state of Mato Grosso. For the study development of these points in the structure composition we will use specific theories and bibliographies. Afterwards, we will consider the narrative basis to the narrator constitution, the main point of this research, which works as the catalyst element between the other categories like time, space, plot and characters. All these fragments are cemented on the fictional mosaic by subtle irony and by plurality of voices which give to the work a post-modern profile.
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Abdul, Nabi Saleh Ali. "The concept of the Sufi Saintly Miracle: A Literary Approach." University of Western cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7302.
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Masters of Artstudy analyses the concept of al-Karāmah al-Sūfīyah (the Sufi Saintly Miracle) in both its religious and literary dimensions. The researcher will shed more light on this genre of narrative literary phenomena by developing its definition and placing it in the social and historical context of the Sufi thought as a whole. Many communities in the Islamic world embrace and practice the Sufi doctrine and also believe in the Ṣūfī Sheikhs’ saintly miracles and its paranormal aspects, which they also consider to be parallel in its sacredness to the miracles of the Prophets. Furthermore, in this study the researcher will not only focus on the religious significance of the saintly miracle but also on their literary approach and aesthetic dimensions. In fact many of the contemporary Arab scholars and Litterateurs categorize this narrative discourse to fall under the cloak of al-Adab al-‘ajāibī (miraculous literature) due to the nature of its narrative style and structure from which it achieves its goals, such as: Myth – Legend – Superstition – Storytelling, etc. The study will be mainly qualitative. It is a content analysis study in the sense that the researcher will analyse the stylistic, formal and rhetorical techniques of the saintly miracles’ discourse with specific reference to extracts taken from al- Sheikh al-Hassan al- Shadili and al-Sheikh Abdelssalam Bin Machich. The study will use an eclectic theoretical and conceptual framework which combines the historical approach with the reception theory.
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Ellinger, Pierre. "Recherches sur les "situations extrêmes" dans la mythologie d'Artemis et la pensée religieuse grecque : autour de la légende nationale phocidienne et des récits de g uerre d'anéantissement." Paris, EHESS, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988EHES0014.
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A partir de l'etude de la legende nationale phocidienne, cycle de recits racontant les guerres d'independance du peuple phocidien contre les thessaliens a l'epoque archaique, celebrees au sanctuaire federal phocidien d'artemis elaphebolos d'hyampolis, il est montre que les grecs de l'epoque archaique et classique ont developpe une pensee complexe et systematique des exceptions a leurs propres regles de la guerre hoplitique. Contre les guerres d'aneantissement qui menacent l'existence meme des peuples et des cites, il est fait appel a artemis, pour qu'elle insuffle l'audace et le courage de faire face au risque le plus grand, qu'elle inspire les parades qui permettront de l'emporter dans ces guerres qui transgressent toutes les limites admises, et de faire triompher la civilisation la-meme ou elle paraissait devoir s'abimer dans la sauvagerie. Cette reflexion grecque sur les formes extremes de la guerre est a replacer dans le cadre plus vaste d'une pensee des "situations extremes", par laquelle, en s'opposant au radicalisme extremiste de courants mystiques comme l'orphisme, qui la denonce comme le mal absolu, la cite s'efforce d'explorer et de tracer les limites de la condition humaine a distance gardee aussi bien du pire que d'un impossible meilleur. Ainsi concu, ce travail tout entier se veut une contribution a l'etude des rapports du mythe et de l'histoireStarting from the phokian national legend which consists in a cycle of tales reporting the wars of independence of the phokians against the thessalians in the archaic age, celebrated at the phokian federal sanctuary of artemis elaphebolos in hyampolis, it is shown that the greeks of the archaic and classical periods developped a complex and systematic thinking about exceptions to their own rules of hoplitic war. When wars of annihilation threatened the very existence of peoples and cities, artemis was called to instil the boldness and the courage to face the greatest risks, to inspire the devices to win these wars which transgress every admitted limit and to make civilization triumph where it seemed doomed to sink into wildness. The pondering of the greeks about the extreme forms of war is to be placed in the larger frame of a consideration on "extreme situations" by which the city, opposing the extreme radicalism of mystic trends like orphism which branded her as the absolute evil, endeavoured to explore and draw the limits of human condition at a distance of both the worst and the impossible best. Thus conceived, this whole work is intended as a contribution to the study of the relations between myth and history