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Analysis of modern strategies for using artificial intelligence technologies in the creation of fantasy content
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Yertay Sultan and others
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Volume 40, Issue 1, April 2025, Pages 295–307, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqae090
Published: 02 January 2025
... holds great potential for the genre's future growth, promising more innovative and inclusive experiences for audiences. mythology visualization computer games socio-cultural changes interactive platforms literature Science Committee of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic...
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Are Rape Myths ‘Myths’?
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David J Hayes
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Volume 44, Issue 1, Spring 2024, Pages 156–180, https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqad029
Published: 05 January 2024
...David J Hayes Mythological scholarship is incredibly wide-ranging and intensely interdisciplinary, drawing in scholars as diverse as psychologists, philosophers, sociologists and anthropologists, and so I cannot give more than a basic summary of some of the core ideas here. In particular...
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Materiality, Postcoloniality, and the Phenomenology of Mental Health
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Rajalakshmi Nadadur Kannan
Literature and Theology, Volume 35, Issue 4, December 2021, Pages 465–482, https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frab028
Published: 15 January 2022
... on Hindu mythology as a starting point, I discuss how trauma has been imbibed into women’s bodies through concepts such as pativrata. This problematises our contemporary, uncritical understandings of the mind/body dichotomy posited by popular discourses on yoga, meditation, and other mindfulness...
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‘May she who was once beautiful be transformed into a monster’: magic and witchcraft in Veneno es de amor la envidia (Madrid, 1711)
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Maria Virginia Acuña
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Early Music
Early Music, Volume 48, Issue 3, August 2020, Pages 377–390, https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caaa047
Published: 25 August 2020
... of an often-overlooked corpus of theatrical music of the Baroque. early zarzuela mythology witchcraft comedia de magia Sebastián Durón Antonio de Zamora parody and humour An unusual operatic work premiered at Madrid’s Teatro de la Cruz in 1711: Veneno es de amor la envidia (Envy...
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Resurrecting ‘Lucifer’: The Transmedia Mythology of Harry Lime
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Scott Freer
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Adaptation
Adaptation, Volume 13, Issue 1, March 2020, Pages 13–35, https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apz010
Published: 06 April 2019
...Scott Freer Abstract This essay examines the transmedia mythology of the popular but also ‘evil’ character, Harry Lime, who, in The Third Man (1949) written by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed, is shot dead in the sewers of postwar Vienna. The romance of Lime begins with a famous...
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Racial Mythologies, Neoliberal Seductions, and the Fictioning of Blackness: An SOS from “Old Lem”
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Dana A. Williams
American Literary History, Volume 28, Issue 4, Winter 2016, Pages 835–844, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajw050
Published: 22 November 2016
...-mail: [email protected] 2016 This essay examines the ways current writing about black life, by non-black and black writers alike, may be contributing (unknowingly or otherwise) to a new racial mythology informed more by conditioning than historicity and more in service of a reimagined...
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A Uniform Approach? Designing Australian National Identity at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games
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Jess Berry
Journal of Design History, Volume 26, Issue 1, February 2013, Pages 86–103, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/eps016
Published: 30 July 2012
... salient characteristics endure when national identity is called into question. Australia mythology national identity uniforms dress surf wear Australia’s sporting prowess has remained a distinctive feature of the nation’s identity, especially at moments when this identity has been fractured...
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Sacred Objects—Australian Design and National Celebrations
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Simon Jackson
Journal of Design History, Volume 19, Issue 3, Autumn 2006, Pages 249–255, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epl019
Published: 09 August 2006
... different types of writings about Australian industrial design are contrasted and two questions are explored: Is there a national design sensibility? Should there be an attempt to create a national canon of design? Australia Hills Hoist industrial design mythology national identity stump-jump plough...
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The Art of Alleviating Pain in Greek Mythology
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Hatice Türe and others
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Neurosurgery
Neurosurgery, Volume 56, Issue 1, January 2005, Pages 178–186, https://doi.org/10.1227/01.NEU.0000146209.19341.3B
Published: 01 January 2005
... the deceptive shapes of earth, rocks, water, trees, and other lifeless things in the dreams of men. This sequence of creation—hypnosis, amnesia, and algesia—shows that the common components of anesthesia were in the realm of family in mythology. Their proximity to death was discovered, and their control had...
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Volker the Spilman: The Nibelungenlied's Minstrel in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Poetic Adaptations
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Jane Dewhurst
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, January 2004, Pages 27–40, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/40.1.27
Published: 01 January 2004
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The final poetic adaptation of the spõÃleman von Alzeye comes from the pen of
the philologist, poet and Nietzsche-biographer Ernst Bertram. A self-
appointed creator of national mythologies, Bertram contributed decisively
to the post-First World War myth of a unique German Schicksal or Not (an
allusion...
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‘Let us now praise the name of famous men’: Myth and Mearning in the Stained Glass of the Scottish National War Memorial
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Juliette MacDonald
Journal of Design History, Volume 14, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 117–128, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/14.2.117
Published: 01 June 2001
...Juliette MacDonald crafts Cultural nationalism First World War stained glass mythology Scottish National War Memorial © 2001 The Design History Society 2001 Abstract The focus of this article will be a consideration of the way in which Douglas Strachan's stained glass for the Scottish...
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Father in Crisis, Mother Rises? (Extra)biblical Scenarios
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Inez Van Der Spek
Published: 30 April 2000
... turns to the Bible as well as to Julia Kristeva's views on the so-called archaic mother to gain insight into particular fantasies that appear in the story, focusing on the Wirkungsgeschichte of biblical mythology. Finally, it discusses Kristeva's theory of abjection, and how it relates...
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‘Mission Impossible?’
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Pierre-Philippe Fraiture
Published: 15 December 2013
..., religious and missionary/Christian history, ethnography (Baluba mythology), and Greco-Latin philology and mythology – to challenge (via Foucault, Lévi-Strauss, and Herodotus) the historical and political myths and ideological ‘fables’ which have since the Renaissance contributed to African evangelisation...
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Wild Hope: Love, Money and Mythic Identity in the Novels of Louise Erdrich
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William Blazek
Published: 01 May 2005
...This chapter examines Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine novels as chronicles that combine Ojibwe mythology and contemporary US culture in ways which reinvest a sense of mythic identity within a multicultural, postmodern America. It first considers how the critical emphasis on Native...
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Whose Myth is it Anyway? Coyote in the Poetry of Gary Snyder and Simon J. Ortiz
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Mark Shackleton
Published: 01 May 2005
...This chapter contrasts the poetry of Gary Snyder and Simon J. Ortiz, in particular their use of the trickster Coyote from Native American mythology. It compares examples from the work of Snyder and other ‘white shaman’ poets with selections from Ortiz's poetry to show how the former's distance from...
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Published: 01 April 2004
... protests both inside and outside the camp. Data shows that Irish and Welsh classes were maintained at Frongoch, and that the inmates also developed their political education, although most of them had little understanding of political issues. Frongoch later went into Irish mythology, and the men who had...
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Definitions
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David A. Leeming
Published: 20 October 2022
... myths, and Chapter 5 hero myths. creation myth definitions deity myth dictatorship of the proletariat flood myth Freudian psychology Greece hero myth Manifest Destiny master race myth mythological constructs trickster myth religious narrative world mythology creation Flood Hero myth...
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Ritual, Myth, and the Rise of “Greedy Rice”
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Michael R. Dove
Published: 23 February 2021
...This chapter studies the ritual conservation of archaic cultigens. Contemporary food-crop agriculture in the region is heavily focused on rice. But tribal mythology, supported by archaeological evidence, suggests that much grain cultivation was preceded by the cultivation of tubers, in particular...
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The Great Bridge-Building of God
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Thomas Harrison
Published: 01 April 2021
..., envisioning a bridge between the “no longer” of the visible world and the “not yet” of an invisible one. bridges Milky Way mythology and ritual Rilke Rainer Maria Tanabata tsumé and Hikoboshi Hearn Lafcadio Eros rainbow bridges Bifröst and Asbrú bridge of the Gods Brückner Max Greece and Greeks...
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The Spiritual Path
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Deja Whitehouse
Published: 18 November 2024
... such as the Celtic Revival and Greek mythology are explored, with specific reference to her illustrated story Winchelsea, published in 1926. Her early interest in Theosophy and Anthroposophy is considered, and her involvement in Freemasonry is also explored. Frieda Harris esotericism mysticism...
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