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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Mythopoesis"”.
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Critical Climates: <i>Stimmung</i>, Voice and Mythopoesis in German Literature from 1950–1989
… in a way that can be spoken of in terms of a mythopoesis. This project builds upon contemporary scholarship that focuses on <em>Stimmung</em> as a way to refigure literary studies beyond cultural studies and poststructuralism, as well as work that analyzes social phenomena in terms of …
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The imperfect librarians: myth and resistance in Marcel Proust, Johannes V. Jensen, Virginia Woolf, and Jorge Luis Borges
… apt prism through which to understand Modernist mythopoesis. My central aim is to produce a comparative theoretical assessment of Modernist mythmaking by using, as primary examples, Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, Johannes V. Jensen's Myths , Virginia Woolf's novels To The …
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Indigenous tradition and the colonial legacy : a study in the social context of anglophone African literary criticism.
… traditional cultures. These operations rely on mythopoesis, formalism and the sociology of literature. The final chapter on East African political readings investigates the internal, discursive tensions in the work of two critics who, in attempting to politicize their reading of literature, have …
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Pamfletter! : En diskursiv praktik och dess strategier i tidig svensk politisk offentlighet
… the extent of moral evaluation and the use of mythopoesis. The most striking difference is that delegitmising strategies are much less frequent in the debate in the second period, 1809–1810, when the political situation was dramatic and delicate. The theoretical discussion in this thesis …
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Between respectability and disgrace: schismogenesis and the regeneration of inequality, stigma and social exclusion in Limerick
… and stigma in Limerick, the thesis explores the mythopoesis of persistent, recurrent narratives and labels that mark the boundaries of the city’s identities. The thesis examines the cultural and social function of ‘slagging’ as a vernacular and highly particularised form of ironic, ritualised …
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Choking on the madeleine: encounters and alternative approaches to memory in a contemporary art practice
… the minor, the virtual, the event, and mythopoesis. The thesis adopts this approach, and demonstrates how the memory-event developed through phases of research. Firstly, the thesis establishes and critiques prevailing ideas and expressions of memory. It then defines the methods and …
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Master of the house: de-mythologizing the father in Turkish-German film
… and of an epistemological link between genre and mythopoesis.
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The Mythic Conquest of Time in Faulkner's Fiction
<p>William Faulkner is famous for stating he agrees with Henri Bergson's optimistic philosophy of time, a philosophy that emphasizes human freedom and action precisely as they relate to time. However, many of Faulkner's characters are defined by their stagnant and lethargic personalities which …
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Die Funktion der Atlantis-Rezeption in J. R. R. Tolkiens Númenor zwischen Empirie und Phantasie
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973) ist mit seinem Mittelerde-Komplex einer der erfolgreichsten und wirkungsmächtigsten Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts und begründete mit seinem Schaffen die moderne Fantasy-Literatur. Zunächst von Leserinnen und Lesern immer wieder deutend als Allegorie des Zweiten …