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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"contemporary mythology"”.
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The Burning of Restoran and Other Stories
… Serbian and Greek epic style oral history and contemporary mythology. The themes in this piece all harken back to ones that stir the soul: war, trauma, music, water, and family. The rest of the stories in this collection, “Twin,” “Groundwork,” “Facts about Octopuses,” and “Wait,” are short …
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The evolution of family myths: a qualitative analysis of mid- life married men
… interest was inquiry into the origin of family mythology and the transmission process of myths as perceived by men. The most pervasive themes were found around "relations with father." These themes were indicated in a two-fold typology of "father is absent" and "father is present." The findings …
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Dream Machine
… is a collection which constructs a body of contemporary mythology, grappling with themes of American paranoia, online identity formation, and bodily alienation. Stories such as "Offerings" and "Pareidolia" explore the digital commodification of the body, following characters who—through …
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The Hero's Journey
… of assemblages are an expression my modern mythology through the juxtaposition of esoteric symbols and my collection of beloved action figures. Though myth is founded in partial truths and allegories, it has the unique capability to speak about our relationships to one another and the …
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Governmentality and power in 'design for government' in the UK, 2008-2017: an ethnography of an emerging field
… the colonisation of yet another domain by the contemporary mythology that is design.