10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MYTHICISATION»
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mythicisation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
mythicisation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Beyond: From ...
This suggests that the legitimation of padded dancing may be – or at least
resembles – its mythicisation, its anchoring in the communally permanent. Such
mythicisation inheres in ritual generally. But satyric and padded dancing is also
an ...
Eric Csapo, Margaret C. Miller, 2007
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Annie Ernaux: The Return to Origins
This mythicisation of femininity, however tenuous its links to le vecu, is shown to
exert a powerful influence on it. Indeed, according to Beauvoir, it is precisely the
tenuousness of such links that renders the content of mythical reinforcers ...
3
Who Guards the Guardians?: Intercultural Dialogue on ...
Once begun, this process of de-mythicisation weakened the power of the old
gods and the idea of independent human intelligence grew stronger.58 This
Epistemology and Ethics, op. cit. p. 226. According to Striker, Cicero effectively
elevates ...
4
The Environment, Our Natural Resources and Modern Technology
... the rhetoric of postmodernism to the point of self-mystification and auto-
paralysis.” Keesing finds the “ideological mythicisation of history” to be “part of
the political process everywhere, in North America and Europe as well as in the
Pacific.
Thomas R. DeGregori, 2002
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Imperial Migrations: Colonial Communities and Diaspora in ...
... congenital signs of savagery and anthropophagy.16 If literature persisted in
underscoring the 'evidence' of African anthropophagical practices which became
part of the negative mythicisation of Africans, this mythicisation was fortified by
the ...
Eric Morier-Genoud, Michel Cahen, 2012
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Dialogue and Universalism
What is characteristic of this mythicisation is, among others, the condition that it
cannot be accessed in its historical origins. Whenever the mythicisation can be
comprehended in a transcendental experience as a plan of this experience, ...
We should not, however, see mythicisation simply as false consciousness, as
masking some grim, but different, 'reality'. As many studies of discourse have
pointed out the use of linguistic tropes is integral to the struggle for the definition
of ...
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Michel Tournier: Exploring Human Relations
The mythicisation of characters and situations that are primordial and archetypal
is thus complemented by a mythicisation of history. The depiction of characters
and actions that exist and occur outside ordinary time and space merges with the
...
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory
Jack Zipes has argued that fairy tales, regardless of their ultimate origin, have
been subject to a process of mythicisation, and so have become myths in their
own right. Myths frequently function as pretexts (in Genette's term, hypotexts).
David HERMAN, Manfred JAHN, Marie-Laure RYAN, 2010
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The Culture of Lies: Antipolitical Essays
Terror by remembering as a method of establishing a national identity does not
shrink from national megalomania, heroisation, mythicisation, the absurd
accepted lies, in other words. Signs of national megalomania are visible
everywhere: ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MYTHICISATION»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
mythicisation is used in the context of the following news items.
Tuesday's Editorial: Souring on cream of the crop
... a number of the weaker papers generating a lexicon of neologisms including: revealment, disguisal, indignance, mythicisation, problemental, ... «Edmonton Journal, Jun 15»
A protest against reality: the life and afterlife of Bruno Schulz
In his essay “The Mythicisation of Reality”, he described the ideas that all stories “come from forgotten, fragmented tales” and that “not one ... «New Statesman, Apr 15»
