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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Mythos"”.
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Tempering Steel: Reapproaching the Mythos of Superman
… addressed as well as how Waid reconstructs the mythos for the twenty-first century. The second chapter addresses deconstructive narratives and the issue of shifting the context of Superman. This particular portion of the study examines Mark Waid's Kingdom Come (1996), Mark Millar's Superman: Red …
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William Blake's artificial mythology and quotations from world mythos
The central theme of this thesis is the visual analysis of William Blake's art in connection to the available mythological and religious texts by which Blake constructed his own artificial mythology. This analysis will include explorations into Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Jewish and Hindu myth as well …
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The mythos of dwelling : a settlement at Kalaupapa, Molokai
This thesis is the exploration of the physical and metaphorical potential of one of the most beautiful and poignant places in the world. It is Kalaupapa, a peninsula on the North Shore of Molokai, Hawaii, and the site of the infamous Leper colony run by Father Damien at the end of the last century. …
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Repetition and Mythos: Ratzinger’s Bonaventure and the Meaning of History
… stance is however unacceptable. Here I show how mythos mediates the difference between science and history, yielding a non-positivistic approach to history. But this history: is it static or progressive? Building on the dynamics of Plato’s Divided Line, I show that the days of creation, narrated …
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Desiring myth: history, mythos and art in the work of Flaubert and Proust
… Culture is composed not only of logos but of mythos as well: Poetry, Art, History and Religion are all analysed in this study. Flaubert’s works enact a repeated invocation and repression of the visual, most evident in the Tentation de Saint Antoine, where the symbol is occluded and the logos …
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"A kind of higher journalism" : Eugene Jolas, the new mythos and Transition (1927-1938)
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Searching for SETI: The Social Construction of Aliens and the Quest for a Technological Mythos
This dissertation uses Actor Network Theory (ANT) and Stark and Bainbridge's rational choice theory of religion to analyze an established but controversial branch of science and technology, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Of particular interest are the cultural, and sometimes …
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Funktion der Grossstadtallegorie und des "Mythos" in der "Zehnten Duineser Elegie" von Rainer Maria Rilke. (German text);
The views of Quintilian, Benjamin and Blumenberg on allegory and metaphor, together with a critical appraisal of Vico's and Frye's theories on myth provide the theoretical framework for the investigations undertaken in this thesis. An analysis of the depiction of city life in Rilke's early works …
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Mut und Ehre: Die professionelle, ideologische und politische Entwicklung des spanischen Offizierskorps im 19. Jahrhundert (1808-1908).
… Mutes und Talents. - 3. 1850-1860: Einzug des Mythos des Mutes in das bürgerliche Politikverständnis, Höhepunkt im utopischen Militarismus, der Krieg und Gewalt als moralisch läuternde Instanzen sieht, deren Anwendung zur Errichtung bürgerlicher Sozialstrukturen führe. - 4. 1860-1870: …
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Mythische Strukturen in literarischen Werken Annemarie Schwarzenbachs
… Einordnung des Werkes, Mythos und mythologische Ansätze), dass die literarischen Arbeiten Schwarzenbachs zumeist als maskierte autobiographische Romane und Erzählungen gelesen wurden. So wird der Roman Das glückliche Tal oft als Mythologisierung der zu Lebzeiten der …
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Der Troische Krieg in der nachhomerischen Literatur bis zum 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr.
… verdeutlicht zunächst die Variabilität eines Mythos, der als Geschichte empfunden wird und zugleich ein reiches Material zur poetischen Umgestaltung anbietet. Innovative Änderungen lassen sich durch die gegenwartsorientierten Wirkungsabsichten der Autoren erklären. Der Mythos des Troischen …
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Characterization in satire: the three degrees of roundness; purpose, complexity, and credibility
… would be perceived by characters of the Greek mythos as they attempt to assimilate to a fictional Western culture through the use of satirical conventions. How would modern cultural normalities be accepted or rejected by these mythological figures? Would humanity welcome their assimilation or …
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"Deutsche Helden" : Hermanns- und Reformationsdramen im 19. Jahrhundert
… analysiert, mit denen die Dramatiker den Mythos durch die Inszenierung mit spezifischen ästhetisch-rhetorischen Mitteln für das Politische ihrer Zeit als relevant darstellen. Diese Ästhetik des Theatralen kann kritisch oder, wie es in den hier zu untersuchenden Dramentexten häufiger der …
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Wildlife: Stories
… The second project attempts to document a mythos of Marjorie—as rampaging mutant, demon ghost, televised prophet, kiosk salesperson, vengeful aunt—in new and surprising settings across time and space. London and Marjorie occupy two very distinctive functions in fiction writing, using …
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The Rise and Fall of the Crudsades Through Vatican Political Hegemony
… nation states as a common political and cultural mythos.</p>
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Pleasure Gardens
… ‘garden as paradise’ has been part of our human mythos for a very long time. The image of ‘garden of eden’ appears in the old testament of the Bible. There was a similar early image of ‘garden as paradise’ in Zoroastrian beliefs in ancient ‘Persia’.
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