Deucalion et les os de la mère by Aline Magnien

“…Even though materials possess objective characteristics, they also contain a whole part of mythology in the meaning given to this term by Roland Barthes or Roger Caillois, for the stone. …”
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Saint-Germain-des-Prés, un mythe de la culture moyenne dans les hebdomadaires des années 1950 by Marie-Astrid Charlier

“…Using the American-style news magazine while retaining the devices of the small press of the 19th century and then of the interwar period, the four weeklies created a "Saint-Germain-des-Prés" mythology for middlebrow culture, which was also fed by a large number of novels and films.…”
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Phenomenology of Fire Image in the Poems of Akhavan Sales based on Gaston Bachelard Thoughts by Nematollah Iranzadeh, Shahnaz Arsh Akmal

“…He also believe on four nodes, in connection with the fire, that like Freud borrowed their names from mythology and scholars. This study relying on Bachelard ideas, tried to read and analysis the poems of Mehdi Akhavan Sales, to reach the fire and related concepts in images and poetic interpretations.…”
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“A good deal about California does not, on its own preferred terms, add up”: Joan Didion between Dawning Apocalypse and Retrogressive Utopia by Eva-Sabine Zehelein

“…Identity and landscape fuse into an auto-psychoanalysis, which at the same time reveals a great deal about the American condition, its constantly strained relationship between rhetoric or auto-mythology and lived reality. This article draws primarily on Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) and Where I Was From (2003), but also on After Henry (1992) and The White Album (1979), to illustrate these points.…”
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The Resurrected Youth and the Sorrowing Mother: Walter Pater’s Uses of the Myths of Dionysus and Demeter by Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada

“…In the mid-1870s, Walter Pater wrote two essays on Greek mythology, ‘A Study of Dionysus’ and ‘Demeter and Persephone’, in which he wondered about the relevance of Greek myths to the modern mind and advocated empathy with the primitive mind. …”
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Deadwood : la naissance d’une ville by Nathalie Massip

“…Yet, ultimately, it becomes evident that change and progress are not wanted, in Deadwood, and the series, deviating from most of its genre’s predecessors, seems to blur the frontier between savagery and civilization, in an attempt to debunk America’s mythologized past.…”
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De l’État au citoyen, redistribution des cartes : éléments d’une histoire de la cartographie by Élisabeth Habert

“…They illustrate information about the use of land, the mythology, the local customs, the know-how, the rituals, often difficult to include and analyze in a geo-referenced database.…”
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Au rendez-vous allemand (2) by Agnès Bouvier

“…Thus, despite the excesses of the “rationalists” and “mythologs”, whose methods he clearly distinguished, Renan considered the German exegesis a progress. …”
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Dispersion of the Yorùbá to the Americas: A Fatalist Hermeneutics of Orí in the Yorùbá Cosmos – Reading from Tutuoba: Salem’s Black Shango Slave Queen by Emmanuel Adeniyi

“…I used metaphysical fatalism as a theoretical model to interrogate prognostications about dispersion of the Yorùbá from their matrix as expressed in their mythology. Being a predestining agent, I examined the role of orí (destiny) within the context of rigid fatalism and its textualisation in Prince Justice’s Tutuoba: Salem’s Black Shango Slave Queen. …”
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« Excès et pénurie dans Middlemarch : le cas de M. Casaubon » by Sylvie Jougan

“…Thirdly, Casaubon is sadly lacking in mental and intellectual energy : the scholar’s intellect is unable to « digest » the voluminous notes amassed over the years to produce his « Key to all Mythologies », an excessive project if ever there was one. …”
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Visual Vertigo, Phantasmagoric Physiognomies: Joseph Roth and Walter Benjamin on the Visual Experience of Architecture by Stefan Koller

“…It shows that Benjamin’s specific contribution to this body of literature is the invention of a secular mythology, with a clear application to architecture in Benjamin’s focus on the ‘boundless interiorisation’ of glass and iron construction. …”
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Digging up Old Stories: How the Soviet Myths of Allied Intervention into the Russian North in 1918–1919 are used in the Context of Russia’s War in Ukraine. The Case of Mudyug Conce... by Natalia Golysheva

“… The mythology of the foreign interference into the Russian civil war goes to the heart of the memory politics in Putin’s Russia today, most recently in connection with the invasion in Ukraine. …”
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L’humanisation des hybrides mi‑hommes, mi‑bêtes en question(s) by Jacqueline Leclercq-Marx

“…The creatures in question are five different hybrids of mythology and fabulous natural history: sirens (uniquely in their aspect of fish women), centaurs, cynocephali or dog heads, and satyrs or half-man half-goat.Finally, we will ask whether there is a determining cultural factor that has favoured this kind of particularly transgressive slippage between human and animal boundaries, even if it has not always and in case every instance prevailed.…”
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Wild Wild West : une série au carrefour des affirmations dans les États-Unis du milieu des années 1960 by Jean Ruhlman

“…The series questions diverse constitutive elements of the mythology of the West, as it undermines the supposed virtues of the pioneering local communities as well as those asserted by the conquest of the West in its final stage after the Civil War. …”
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Myth-making and Uchronia: The Advent of a Fascist America in Nathanael West’s A Cool Million (1934) by Frank Conesa

“…I will argue that in the context of the Depression, A Cool Million emerges as a uchronia, an alternate history dramatizing the advent of a dictator who decides to exterminate all that is un-American, seizing upon Lemuel Pitkin’s martyr to forge and enunciate the official mythology of the new political regime.…”
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La possibilité d’une île : la mythologie du Bronx, archipel enchanté, dans trois textes autobiographiques de Jerome Charyn by Sophie Vallas

“…This paper proposes to see Charyn’s nostalgic painting of the Bronx in the 1940s first as a historically documented evocation, but also as a mythologizing enterprise: as the reader follows Charyn from one mythical landmark to the next, he realizes that an imaginary geography, a magical cartography of the Bronx are being drawn before his eyes while a powerful Melvillian intertext puts the final touches to the recollection of an "evilly enchanted ground". …”
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Explication of screen culture by Dmitry Belyaev, Ksenia Aksenova

“…The acceleration of the screening dynamics of many cultural spheres and the formation of a special cultural continuum will be revealed, where all traditional social and personal activities are screened, creating a space of new authenticity and mythology. The framework of its architectonics is visually dynamic forms, often with interactive and hypertextual properties.  …”
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Grotesque and Southern Gothic in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian by Hüseyin Altındiş

“…The counter- narratives complicate any types of subjugation, mythologized history, and refuse to approve the violence that the prevailing power practices against innocent people. …”
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Phenomenon of androgyne as «post-gender»: psychological and philosophical analysis by E. Shishlova

“…The article examines the history and evolution of the phenomenon of androgyne in ancient mythology, medieval religious philosophy, modern philosophy, present-day psychological science and practice. …”
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Le Théâtre de la mort de Tadeusz Kantor : un « gué secret » entre les vivants et les morts by Virginie Lachaise

“…It would be tempting to place the whole Tadeusz Kantor’s theater under the sign of the revenance and haunting, so everything is back : the characters, situations, objects, spaces, words and sounds, almost all returning the autobiographical sphere and the religious history and mythology of Poland, homeland of the artist. In the confined space of its Chamber of memory and imagination, the scene, the artist made a machine to view the past spring to the rhythm of ”heartbeat memory“ Children in tatters, the spectra of the family who do not allow themselves to forget, the scraps of old battles Cricot 2. …”
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