Роль персонажа в предвыборном дискурсе by Виктория Марьянчик

“…This article offers a typology of roles which serve a utilitarian, communicative, ethical, verbal, metaphorical and mythological function.…”
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Tabù e sensibilità: le precauzioni rituali nel candomblé by Francesca Bassi

“…Indeed, many elements associated with negative events experienced by orixás at mythological time produce, at present time, negative reactions in initiates, who may feel disgust, rejection, intolerance, especially towards food. …”
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‘Diaphaneitè’ and Dante: a New Perspective on Pater’s Early Essay by Julia Straub

“…Despite acute awareness of Walter Pater’s interest in and use of literary, mythological, philosophical and artistic sources in his own writings, his reception of Dante Alighieri has not been investigated sufficiently yet. …”
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Udmurdi rahva arusaamad kosmogooniast: tähtede nimed ja nende kujutamine rahvaluules by Tatiana Vladykina

“…Cosmogonic concepts of the Udmurt people can be detected through the names of stars, the nomination of which is usually based on mythological cognition. Additional and very significant information about space objects is contained in folklore texts. …”
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Le soleil devient un mythe by Ildikó Lőrinszky

“…Starting from an enigmatic phrase in Flaubert’s correspondence, dating from 1858, this article examines the relation between the Sun and myth, which constitutes one of the key elements of the mythological dimension of Salammbô. It especially focuses on the treatment of this question in two representative works of mythographic studies, The Origin of All Religious Worship by Charles-François Dupuis, and Les Religions de l’Antiquité..., the French adaptation of Frédéric Creuzer’s Symbolik und Mythologie der alten Völker by Joseph-Daniel Guigniault. …”
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Juliet’s Migrations in Alice Munro’s Runaway: Making and Losing Connections by Christine LORRE-JOHNSTON

“…This is achieved in various ways: through mythological interpretation (and counter-interpretation) of her life; through the choice of a trilogy, by contrast in particular with a dyad; through the very functioning of the trilogy as pictorial tryptich that allows the circulation and therefore the instability and liveliness of sensations; and through the changing meaning of words, that convey evolving emotions and ways of feeling. …”
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Le droit à l’image : le Cinéma Novo brésilien et l’apparaître by Gustavo Chataignier

“…In this regard, his filmography – mainly Black god, white devil [Deus e o diabo na terra do sol, 1964] – will be read as a "mythological rationality", whose creativeness, by means of proper cinema aesthetic procedures, brings up a new visibility. …”
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Entre la parole et l’image : le système mythopoétique marubo by Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino

“…The transformation and composition relationships of the previous schemes constitute a specialized mythological and poetic knowledge, characterized by transmission and acquisition processes that are connected to the exo-centered Amerindian cosmologies.…”
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Filmowy Poemat pedagogiczny: między Makarenką a wymogami kultury totalitarnej by Jakub Sadowski

“…The key to its reading (which is specific for totalitarian culture) analyzed in this text results from the main function of narratives of this culture, i.e. the transmission of units of its mythological universe. …”
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Une promise pour la licorne : quand Denis Johnston crève l’horizon de la scène irlandaise by Virginie Girel-Pietka

“…He endeavoured to create an original piece of work, breaking away from the realistic drama which prevailed in Ireland at the time. Fraught with mythological references and hazy characters, the play was considered too complicated, even obscure, and vaguely moralistic. …”
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How the Slovaks Helped Count Dracula: Stereotypes of the Late 19th Century by Martin Kasarda

“…Bram Stoker’s iconic horror novel is heavily influenced by Central and Eastern European mythological pre-Christian stories about the undead, people undergoing lycanthropic metamorphoses, and vampires. …”
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O Desvelamento do Mito Arturiano by Edileide Brito

“…To rigour, the literature uses mythological materials like straight source of events and historical characters, in which the history is deformed by popular imagination, where it draws on the myth a profile like concretization of a Utopia, the fact of literary work to be a sort of concrete Utopia keeps alive the hope and the ideal. …”
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La science-fiction fantastique de Maurice Renard by Arthur B. Evans

“…., his stories appear to continually cross the line into Gothic horror, mythological fantasy, and detective mysteries. This article presents a brief synopsis of Maurice Renard's life and literary ideas (e.g., the "scientific- marvellous"), and offers a detailed discussion of Renard's many novels and short stories, which, often resembling a kind of cross-hybridization between Wells and Poe, can together perhaps best be labelled "fantastic sf."…”
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Des allégories des Saisons sur les tissus coptes by Amandine Mérat

“…But during Late Antiquity, the nimbus was first and foremost an attribute of Roman and pagan origin, destined to highlight all sorts of illustrious figures, whether historical or mythological, such as emperors, heroes and allegories. …”
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A Comparative study of Daiva's Sin and its Evolution in the Stories of Ancient Iran and Ta'ziehs of Daiva's Tying Thumb Based on Six Poetic Verses by Mahdi mohamadi, Adel Meghdadian, Abolfazl Tajik

“…In Persian and Zoroastrian mythology, the demon Az, is one of the strongest allies and accomplices of the devil. …”
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The axiological conceptual functions of the “Russian World” (Russkiy mir): mythologeme, cultureme, and ideologeme by Anastassiya Starodubtseva

“…This lack of clarity is further complicated by its sociocultural, mythological, and ideological dimensions, particularly those promulgated by the Russian government. …”
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El ave como cielo: la presencia del ave chan en las bandas celestes mayas by Rogelio Valencia Rivera, Daniel Salazar Lama

“…In Mayan pictorial tradition, the use of certain iconographic elements serves to transmit messages with a high symbolic content, whether these messages refer to mythological narratives, or illustrate historical events that approximate mythical ones. …”
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Review to the roots of shamluâs poetic imagery by یعقوب نوروزی

“…Beside this, shamlu attains in his poetic imagery to the myths. Mythology of shamlu contains more elements of Greek mythology. shamlu with assistance of myth, affair  as well as transition of his idea and point of view. …”
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Snake and staff symbolism and healing by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…In this article the mythological basis for this symbol is reviewed. The Asclepian emblem has been associated with health care since the 5th century BC when Asclepius became accepted by the Greeks as the god of healing. …”
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Le Bestiaire d’amour de Gustave Flaubert (1) by Loïc Windels

“…It is as if Flaubert did with Medieval legends what Freud would do a little later with Greek mythology. These observations and other similar ones have already been made, and there is no doubt that the reader who loves the dense and suggestive prose that is The Legend of Saint Julian is familiar with them. …”
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