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Showing 1 to 20 of 411 for “"mythology"”.
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From Kennedy to Nixon: American Political Mythology
The work discusses myths--particularly myths of royalty--as they expressed themselves in American society under Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. Examining not only the nature of myth and legend, but their impact on politics, culture and society, the work is divided into three main parts. The first part …
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Woman's essential "nature" : a classical, communitarian gender mythology
This thesis argues that women do not share an essential 'nature'. Further, if it could be shown that women do share an essential 'nature', the consequences would be undesirable. Although mainstream philosophy has largely abandoned nature theories, I will show that certain branches of feminist …
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William Blake's artificial mythology and quotations from world mythos
… by which Blake constructed his own artificial mythology. This analysis will include explorations into Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Jewish and Hindu myth as well as Christian and mystic texts. The various works or "books" by Blake will be the visual basis, specifically The Marriage of Heaven and Hell …
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Jesus, Socrates, and the State: Political Mythology and Power
<p>Joseph Campbell, a preeminent scholar of world mythology, wrote often regarding the “ power of myth ” in our society. Myth, which serves as a metaphor to explain the world and ourselves to ourselves, can be used to further the greater good of mankind. It can also be used to inflict great harm …
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Cartoon Saloon as Mythopoeic: Reimagining Irish Mythology through Animation
… as an art form to address Ireland's history and mythology through the writing, music score, and animation style of the three films. Cartoon Saloon stands at the forefront of a new revitalization of Irish culture reminiscent of the Gaelic and Celtic revivals of the nineteenth and twentieth …
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Teaching itself: a mythology of learning in theory and practice
What I attempt in this dissertation is to make coherent sense of a body of work produced with others over a period of ten years. This was a decade in which the progressive principles that inform my work were being progressively pushed back by an increasingly nihilistic neoliberalism across the …
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The Function of Mythology and Religion in Ancient Greek Society.
… to understand the roles that religion and mythology play in a society and how the two interact with each other. This paper covers what I feel after my study of Greek mythology and religion are the eight functions of mythology: history, education, explanation - both of the natural world and …
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Bonds away : baseball mythology and the 2007 home run chase
… as failing to embody the values of baseball's mythology. Using a qualitative content analysis of three major American newspapers, this thesis examines portrayals of Bonds and how he was shown both to represent and oppose elements from baseball's mythology, such as youth, and a distant, agrarian …
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National Powers of Belief: Folklore, Mythology and Festival in Nazi Germany
In this thesis, I examine the relationship between folklore and nationalism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany. More specifically, I focus on how the Nazis used folklore and the work of folklorists in their propaganda. The first chapter documents the development of nationalism and the …
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RUFUS KING AND THE MISSOURI QUESTION: A STUDY IN POLITICAL MYTHOLOGY
<p>At the beginning of the year, 1819, Americans were congratulating themselves on the fact that their young nation had weathered the fierce storms of domestic controversy and foreign danger which had seemed to threaten the survival of the republic ever since its birth. But, when that year ended, …
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Mythology in the poetry of Maksimilian Volosin: The metaphor of consciousness
… Icarus, and Zeus. These references to Greek mythology allow us to trace the path of Volosin's poetic persona: acceptance of the limitations of the human predicament, quest for self-knowledge, departure from the native land, wanderings, and return to the source of origin. The scientific …
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The healing power : mythology as medicine in contemporary American Indian literature
This study explores the symptoms of alienation witnessed in Indian characters and the healing they achieve through myth in three contemporary American Indian novels. In James Welch's historical novel, Fools Crow, I explore the methods through which Welch tells the story of Fools Crow. I draw …
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Ancient Greek Hymns and Pastoral Gods: Comparative Studies in Poetics and Mythology
The first part of the thesis investigates hymns as a poetic genre in Ancient Greece. Focusing on the early attestations of the term humnos itself and on selected excerpts from Archaic hymnic poetry, the work aims at retracing the main explicit definitions of this genre from the 8th to early 4th …
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A study of Greek and Roman mythology in the poetry of today.
… summer of 1940. A brief study of Greek and Roman mythology in modern poetry was made by examining the anthology, The New Poetry, edited by Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson. Although some facts regarding the use of mythology by present day poets were shown, there was insufficient evidence …
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