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Myth and Mythmaking in Keats and Arnold
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Body Double: Mythmaking and Identity in a Virtual Countryside
This thesis looks at how the romanticized image of the American countryside has shifted over the last century. By tracing a lineage of mediation through different mediums (print, television, internet), we argue that there has never been a pure rural condition. Currently, the countryside is …
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Plutarch reading Plato: Interpretation and Mythmaking in the Early Empire
… argue that Plutarch constructs his own Platonic mythmaking as a distinctive kind of discourse that acts in parallel to dialectic interpretation. Whether interpreting traditional religious material, such as from the cults of Delphi and Isis, or explaining the complicated meanings of Plato’s …
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Mythmaking, Mega-events, and Coercion: Autocratic Legitimation in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan
What constitutes legitimate order in modern autocracies? This research argues that the persistence of autocratic domination evolves beyond simple mechanisms of repression but represents a dynamic process of nurturing public consent and imitating socioeconomic progress. It explores why and how the …
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The Erotic Charms of Platonic Discourse: Mythmaking, Love Potions, and Role Reversals
Socrates engages his audience in Phaedrus with speeches that include revised or newly composed myths that express his theory of philosophical eros. The aim of the speeches is to generate a love for truth that spills over into dialogue. Speeches are a starting point for dialogue, just like physical …
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The memory of mythmaking: Transgenerational trauma and disability as a collective experience in Afrofuturist storytelling
<p>This project closely examines the relationship between transgenerational trauma, disability, and myth, particularly within Black speculative fiction, Afrofuturism, and Africanfuturism. Through the lenses of critical race theory, trauma theory, disability studies, and feminist theory, I will …
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Truth-telling and mythmaking in post-Soviet Russia : pernicious historical ideas, mass education, and interstate conflict
… have been especially prone to Russian historical mythmaking: The Soviet-German War of 1939-45; Soviet western interventions in 1939-40; and the Russo-Turkish wars of the 19th century. Russia's portrayal of these wars and interventions is dominated by self glorifying, self-exculpating, …
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First World War memory and national mythmaking in capital cities - horizontality and verticality in London, Paris, and Budapest
The thesis investigates the influence national WWI commemorations had on the urban landscape in capital cities, London, Paris and Budapest. It analyses how the urban space has changed its physical, symbolic and temporal layers during the hundred years between the end of WWI war and the WWI …
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Overcoming shadows of the past : post-conflict interstate reconciliation in East Asia and Europe
… I develop the second theory, historical mythmaking theory, which suggests that elite mythmaking of the conflict history for instrumental purposes will obstruct long-term reconciliation. Because national myths glorify and whitewash the action of their own nations and belittle others, they …
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Nuclear Proliferation Theory and Practice: the Case of Iran
… the neo-realist, strategic culture, and nuclear "mythmaking” models of analysis. In so doing, it finds that that the structured application of multiple academic theories can generate real-world insights into state behavior, and that the indicators generated by the mythmaking model, in particular, …
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The Tripartite Tributaries of Ush
… and religion in mind, I explore the act of mythmaking and the composition of metafictional text in this work of fiction. The myth aspect combines elements of Classical, biblical, medieval, Romantic, and original materials to form a product that should strike readers as both familiar and …
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Weaving with words: Recording women’s experiences in feminist revisionary adaptations of Greek myth
From the beginning, mythmaking has been profoundly patriarchal, and with the emergence of feminist movements came feminist revisionary adaptations of ancient myth. In this thesis, I argue Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad (2005) and Madeline Miller’s Circe (2018) both stand as examples of feminist …
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Ideas of Crimea : Crimea in the modern Russian political and cultural imagination
… the annexation of Crimea in 2014? Political mythmaking is a process of instrumentalising power narratives that form a bond between the past and the present, reimagining history through elite lenses for their political survival. Myths function as strategic legitimising mechanisms that justify …
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The Mythic Conquest of Time in Faulkner's Fiction
… The Sound and The Fury seeks to consider human mythmaking as the key to understanding Faulkner's difficult works. This critical approach allows us to better understand these works as conflicts between diachronic (linear or "normal") time and synchronic time (mythological or circular) time or …
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The Last Apache "Broncho": The Apache Outlaw in the Popular Imagination, 1886-2013
This study examines the American mythmaking of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Apache 'renegades' and their post—Apache Wars counterpart the Apache 'bronchos' in popular culture and memory. The idea of the 'broncho' Apache created fear, insecurity, and cautionary folklore for residents …
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How Could This Happen? A Constructivist Analysis of Reactive State Terrorism at Ruby Ridge
… of reality construction (naming, legitimation, mythmaking, sedimentation, and ritualism) in the understanding of how the situation of Ruby Ridge was constructed. I have integrated these five stages into the chronological events of Ruby Ridge and illustrate how the situation was constructed to be …
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Poet/censor/reader: Shelley's struggle for a popular reading audience
… often celebrated (or bemoaned) as Shelley's ""mythmaking."" This discursive schizophrenia, I argue, is symptomatic of Shelley's effort to unite poetic and political discourses and to communicate his fundamentally social vision to a popular reading audience despite the dominant culture's …
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Rituals of the enchanted world: Noh theater and religion in medieval Japan
… and evolving schemes of ritualization and mythmaking, rather than ritual as a superimposed structure. Chapters Two through Five are analyses of four Noh plays, Kanawa, Dōjōji, Yamamba, and Hyakuman. This selection reflects my argument that a particularly efficacious form of Noh ritual is …
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Contingent and Collateral Figures in Art Institutions: Laboured Feminist Lineages
… withdrawal with attention to personal tolls of mythmaking, networking, and self-promotion. Taken together, these artworks remind us that institutional models of art and aesthetics are inseparable from the concealed support labour required to maintain them: labour is not incidental to art …
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The imperfect librarians: myth and resistance in Marcel Proust, Johannes V. Jensen, Virginia Woolf, and Jorge Luis Borges
… 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 Lighthouse and The Waves, and the work of Jorge Luis Borges. My dissertation focuses neither on …
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