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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"mythopoeic"”.
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Cartoon Saloon as Mythopoeic: Reimagining Irish Mythology through Animation
Cartoon Saloon, an Irish animation studio based in Co. Kilkenny, Ireland, explores themes of liminality, urbanization, and coming of age in its trio of Irish folklore-themed films. Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, and Wolfwalkers each explore Irish identity, folklore, and community through …
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The Map is not the Territory: The Unconscious Moral Agent and the personal mythopoeic in the novels of Cormac McCarthy
… this lends itself to the formation of a mythopoeic structure that embodies not just the idea of unconscious moral agency, but also the importance of myth and myth-making in the generation of meaning in human lives.
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<i>Metaphasia</i>: Shelley and the Language of Remoter Worlds
… from Earl Wasserman's detailed map of Shelley's mythopoeic structure, I charted this evolution while identifying a fifth discrete entity within the mythological hierarchy of what Harold Bloom has characterized as a "mythopoeic trilogy" (36). Concurrently, I examined the ongoing debate concerning …
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Metaphasia: Shelley and the Language of Remoter Worlds
… from Earl Wasserman's detailed map of Shelley's mythopoeic structure, I charted this evolution while identifying a fifth discrete entity within the mythological hierarchy of what Harold Bloom has characterized as a "mythopoeic trilogy" (36). Concurrently, I examined the ongoing debate concerning …
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Temporal structure and meaning : the defamiliarization of the reader in Faulkner's Go down, Moses
… of strategically-arranged folk conventions and mythopoeic devices upon a textually-based, white "civilized" reader. Using the devices of Southwestern humor, the trickster, and the tragic Black folk tale, "Was" through "Pantaloon in Black" repeatedly sidetrack the reader into unconscious …
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Myth and respectability in Swedish and Dutch fascism, 1931-40
… and unscripted, are considered as having mythopoeic potential, and understood as performative in character, i.e. constituting the thing they claimed to represent. Multiple parts of this mythopoeic process are analysed: the resources, organisation, and technologies required to implement it, …
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Hagia Sophia as a Facture: Originality through Appropriations
… appropriation with deliberately constructed mythopoeic and visual re-makings of Byzantine texts and representations. Evliya Celebi's tale in which an Ottoman architect was said to have laid the foundations of a minaret preceding the conquest and the Dusseldorf manuscript, an idiosyncratic …
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Listening to Birth: Metallurgy, Maternity, and Vocality in the Reproduction of the Patriarchal State
… to demonstrate the importance of hegemonic mythopoeic control of audible female reproduction for establishing ideologies of colonisation and extraction. I link analyses of texts and iconographies from the Bronze Age Mesopotamians, Hittites, Canaanites, Minoans, and Egyptians to later …
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Do humans have special duties and moral obligations towards, rather than ‘rights’ over, nonhuman animals? And if such duties exist, what does our collective treatment of nonhumans say about human morality?
… with nature. This thesis argues (referencing mythopoeic narratives such as ‘the Fall’) that this estrangement may stem from humans’ acquisition of abstract-conceptual reasoning. It then considers the view (from Schopenhauer, among others), that moral intuition (rather than reason alone) is the …