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Brown, Rebecca. "TWO STORIES FROM MYSTERIOUS." Common Knowledge 23, no. 1 (December 20, 2016): 116–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-3692547.
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MAN'KOVSKII, Arkady. ""THE STORY OF THE PRIEST ALEXEI" AS A PART OF THE CYCLE OF "MYSTERIOUS STORIES" BY I.S. TURGENEV: PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF THE STUDY." RZ-Literaturovedenie, no. 3 (2021): 132–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.31249/lit/2021.03.12.
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«The Story of the Priest Alexei» (1877) is examined in general less often than other «mysterious stories» by I.S. Turgenev, sometimes remains even not included into this series. Meanwhile, its place among the later short stories by Turgenev is important, several mysteries associate with it. Some scholars compare «The Story…» to the works by N.S. Leskov and F.M. Dostoevsky; others interpret it in terms of mythopoetics and psychoanalysis or in the contexts of hagiographic topics, old Russian bookishness and folklore. Some authors of recent works base their readings on the narratological paradigm.
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Steward, Frank R., John Gruesser, and Gretchen Murphy. "Three Stories." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 126, no. 3 (May 2011): 780–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2011.126.3.780.
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Thwarted romances between Garrisoned American Soldiers and Young Filipinas, problems of translation in a multilingual contact zone, and the precarious masculine authority of the imperial agent irresistibly drawn to the mysterious women who surround him—these are the subjects of Frank R. Steward's short fiction about the American military occupation of the Philippines. But Steward's perspective as an African American military officer complicates efforts to interpret such familiar colonial scenarios. The stories' formal experimentation makes them a significant discovery in the archives of empire.
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Son, Jin. "The Attitude of Biographies of Monks toward the Mysterious: With a Focus on the relationship with Zhiguai." Korean Institute for Buddhist Studies 60 (February 28, 2024): 127–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.34275/kibs.2024.60.127.
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In this paper, focusing on several articles about monks in Zhiguai (志怪), I examined the changes in the distance between Zhiguai and Seng zhuan (僧傳 Biography of monks). It looked into the records of mysterious actions performed by monks, who, despite being outsiders, became familiar figures, observing the developments in Zhiguai and Seng zhuan. Unlike the criteria for recording monk stories in Seng zhuan, which mainly focused on spiritual aspects, Zhiguai included technical aspects and mysterious events related to ghosts in its records. Therefore, unlike the monastic focus on the maturity of monks in Seng zhuan, even monks who were not high-ranking were documented in Zhiguai during the period of Six Dynasties.
In the early Zhiguai, non-Buddhists perceived Buddhism as a mysterious existence, recording the peculiarities of Buddhism. As a result, Zhiguai took on a new development. Buddhism ceased to be an exotic 'ritual' and began to be recognized as Buddhism itself. Moreover, by being associated with influential individuals or monks affiliated with temples, the stories of monks in Zhiguai were recorded and became part of the materials for Seng zhuan. In this way, by examining the transmission of stories about the mysterious or divine through the intermediary of the 'monk,' we have explored the interrelationship between Zhiguai and Seng zhuan.
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Rosner, Mary, and T. R. Johnson. "Telling Stories: Metaphors of the Human Genome Project." Hypatia 10, no. 4 (1995): 104–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1995.tb01001.x.
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Scientists of the Human Genome Project tend to rely on three metaphors to describe their work, each of which implicitly tells much the same story. Whether they claim to interpret the ultimate “book,” to fix a flawed “machine,” or to map a mysterious “wilderness,” they invariably cast the researcher as one who dominates and exploits the Other. This essay, which explores the ways such a story conflicts with feminist values, proposes an alternative.
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Steinberg, Mark D. "Crooked and Straight: Street Stories and Moral Stories in Early Soviet Odessa." Slavic Review 82, no. 2 (2023): 359–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/slr.2023.168.
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Moral storytelling about urban public life in Odesa in the 1920s is at the center of attention. A key social space is in focus: streets and corners as spaces and as concepts. And a particular storyteller is central: the well-known and yet biographically mysterious feuilletonist for the city's evening newspaper, “Al. Svetlov.” Soviet journalists, like Soviet reality, were expected to offer ideological clarity: a morally unambiguous and teleologically straight story about the death of the past and the birth of a bright and healthy new world. But such temporal and moral (and thus political) consistency was elusive—in the urban spaces where “vestiges” of the old persisted, and in their telling, as observers found it difficult to sustain an unwavering and unambiguous moral orientation. The article asks also how minor and subordinated individuals understood their own lives, suggesting an orientation other than delinquency and pathology.
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Roselezam Wan Yahya, Wan, Kamelia Talebian Sedehi, and Tay Lai Kit. "Gothic and Grotesque in James Hogg’s The Mysterious Bride." International Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies 5, no. 1 (January 31, 2017): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijclts.v.5n.1p.27.
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The word Gothic refers back to the Dark ages in England. The Roman civilization was ruined by the Goths who were the barbarians at that time. As a result of the destruction of Roman Empire, the whole civilization underwent ignorance and darkness. Nowadays, the word Gothic has a variety of meaning and applications. Gothic novels portray exaggerated scenes, haunted castles, monsters and vampires. Scottish Gothic literature started after 1800. This paper will focus on one of the Scottish short stories by James Hogg, “The Mysterious Bride”. Some elements of Gothic and grotesque such as transgression of boundaries, suspense, uncanny and supernatural being are discussed within this short story in order to indicate Hogg’s main intention to use Gothic and grotesque elements in “The Mysterious Bride”. Among all the elemnts in Gothic and grotesque, this paper will mainly apply the presence of the opposites, uncanny, abnormal beings and supernatural events to James Hogg’s “The Mysterious Bride”.
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Obeegadoo, Nikhita. "Archipelagic Stories, Anguilliform Resistances." Monsoon 2, no. 1 (May 1, 2024): 48–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/2834698x-11128241.
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Abstract This article addresses the persistent anthropocentric bias of archipelagic studies. It asks: What would it mean to invite more-than-human and transspecies perspectives into our theorizations of archipelagoes? This interrogation is addressed by following the meanderings of the eel—famously recognized as “the most mysterious creature in the natural world”—through two Francophone texts arising from the Indian Ocean: the first is Mauritian author Ananda Devi's novella La vie de Joséphin le fou (2003), and the second is Comoran author Ali Zamir's novel Anguille sous roche (2016). Through detailed literary analysis, this article demonstrates that in both prose narratives, the perspectives of marine creatures are crucial to the complete telling of intergenerational violence: in particular, the seemingly “infinite” memory and determination of eels becomes an antidote to the fragmentation caused by human trauma. Additionally, this article argues that in both texts, the anguilliform is not simply a theme but also a method, which allows for novel archipelagic forms of storytelling and memory that are as slippery and sinuous as the animals who inspire it. The eel's anguilliform movement thus becomes a source of stylistic and narrative renewal, which allows both texts to embody commentary on the ethical slipperiness of their narratives, as well as on readers’ positionality and complicity.
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Torhovets, Y., and M. Andronova. "PECULIARITIES OF EPITHETS FUNCTIONING IN THE SHORT STORIES BY H. P. LOVECRAFT." Studia Philologica, no. 12 (2019): 46–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.28925/2311-2425.2019.12.5.
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The article presents the analysis of the role of epithets in the creation of mysterious atmosphere and awaking the reader’s feeling of fear and disgust in short stories written by H. P. Lovecraft. The peculiar feature of “cosmic horror” in the short stories under analysis is the use of epithets in order to appeal to sensory feelings, which are the powerful tool for the creation of disgusting and terrible images and feelings. By means of interdisciplinary approach, the epithets have been grouped according to the location of sensory receptors into visual, auditory and olfactory. It has been found that visual epithets constitute the dominant group.
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Lister, Ashley. "Telling true ghost stories." Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 10, no. 1 (April 1, 2020): 73–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fict_00015_1.
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The purpose of this research is to consider the language used for telling true ghost stories. True ghost stories, that is, those anecdotes initially shared by friends and family describing personal experiences and encounters with paranormal activity, is an unusual genre for storytellers in that it lives within a space that can be seen as both fiction and non-fiction, with specific vocabulary that joins the two genres. The non-fiction part of such a story, as with all non-fiction narratives, relies on the verbatim reporting of an eyewitness account. The fictional part depends on a writer utilizing specific semantic tropes of the ghost story, such as mysterious shadows, unexplained noises and fluctuations in temperature. Bridging these two areas is the language found in the narrative, where a responsible writer employs careful phrasing to relate the story whilst avoiding a vocabulary that endorses unprovable phenomena. For example, I cannot, in good conscience, write: … and then the ghost attacked her. To be honest to my own scepticism, and to the limited evidence usually presented with such stories, I have to write: …and then she claims the ghost attacked her or …and then it appeared the ghost attacked her. Through a critical analysis of existing narratives and an examination of hedging strategies used, this research intends to demonstrate how some writers in this genre maintain their own truthfulness to present a compelling narrative.
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Sinwell, Sarag E. S. "Mapping the (Adolescent) Male Body." Boyhood Studies 7, no. 2 (September 1, 2013): 141–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.3149/thy.0702.141.
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Drawing on the work of Gayle Rubin, Jonathan Dollimore, and B. Ruby Rich, this paper will explore the ways in which Michael Cuesta’s L.I.E. (2000) and Gregg Araki’s Mysterious Skin (2004) portray adolescent male bodies and subjectivities within the context of the queer. Throughout these films, cinematic identification is primarily tied up with the stories of adolescent boys. However, the perverse acts in which they participate (both voluntarily and involuntarily), the inclusion of multiple points of view, and the focus on our own cultural constructions of childhood, adolescent and adult sexualities trace a network of nodes of identification. Thus, I argue that L.I.E. and Mysterious Skin queer identification by imagining a multiplicity, fluidity, and diversity of modes of identification that engage with both the normal and perverse natures of identity, sexuality, and subjectivity.
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Matta, May. "The Abyss of the Unknown in the Books “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “A Rose for Emily”." European Scientific Journal, ESJ 14, no. 2 (January 31, 2018): 273. http://dx.doi.org/10.19044/esj.2018.v14n2p273.
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The stories “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “A Rose for Emily” have made an important contribution to literature. “The Fall of the House of Usher” presents a story of a family consisting of two siblings who lived together in an isolated house. Similarly, “A Rose for Emily” presents the story of a woman, Emily who lived a mysterious life. There are various themes that can be drawn from the stories. The aim of this paper is to explore the universal theme of the abyss of the unknown in the two stories. Thus, the paper critically delves into the elements of the stories that support the theme. Some of the supporting themes in “The Fall of the House of Usher” include the house, terror, illness and madness, the description of the family, and death. In “A Rose for Emily”, the presented themes are resistance to change, family, death, and alienation. The paper also analyzes the similarities and dissimilarities as presented in the stories with regard to the universal theme. The similarities include families and residences, incest, house, isolation, and the deaths of the characters. The dissimilarities in the stories were in the setting of the stories and suspense.
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Dvoryashina, Nina A. "Scary” and mysterious world of folklore in the stories of the Russian nanny." Literature at School, no. 3 (2022): 11–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.31862/0130-3414-2022-3-11-31.
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Dewantara, Agustinus Wisnu. "MEMPROMOSIKAN PERUMPAMAAN DALAM MENGAJAR AGAMA KATOLIK." JPAK: Jurnal Pendidikan Agama Katolik 4, no. 2 (November 12, 2018): 352–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.34150/jpak.v4i2.110.
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Jesús preached the kingdom of God. Many of his parables begin: The kingdom of God is like….” But what exactly is the kingdom of God? Parables are enigmatic stories. Metaphorically they are set beside the idea of a kingdom of God, but idea the idea of kingdom is itself mysterious. Everyone who hangs around churches has heard of the parables of Jesus. They are familiar. They have been allegorized, psychologized, and sometimes reduced to pointed “lessons” on moral behavior. But mysteriously, after twenty centuries they still generate retelling and still are puzzling. Maybe the today teacher who preach must be converted. The today teacher cannot preach about the kingdom of God as if it were something somewhere out in the world beyond us. Remember, the kingdom of God is a happening, and people live within its happening. Instead we (and many teacher today) must speak the kingdom of God (and also religion preaching) happening all around us.
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Oliver, Kelly. "Women: The Secret Weapon of Modern Warfare?" Hypatia 23, no. 2 (June 2008): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2008.tb01182.x.
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The images from wars in the Middle East that haunt us are those of young women killing and torturing. Their media circulated stories share a sense of shock. They have both galvanized and confounded debates over feminism and women's equality. And, as Oliver argues in this essay, they share, perhaps subliminally, the problematic notion of women as both offensive and defensive weapons of war, a notion that is symptomatic of fears of women's “mysterious” powers.
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Hartigan, Emily Albrink. "Pilgrim to Nowhere—The Mysterious Journey of Robert Rodes." Journal of Law and Religion 22, no. 2 (2007): 481–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0748081400004008.
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Robert Rodes settled on the metaphor of the pilgrim for his story of the law. For him, pilgrim law is “the jurisprudential manifestation of liberation theology.” To begin my discussion of Rodes and the ongoing story of the law, I begin with a tale of my own pilgrimage to find justice in one place in the world I thought most needed it—when, as Dorothy could have told us from the outset, if it was not in my own back yard, I had never really lost it to begin with. In the mysteries of a Christian life that Rodes emphasizes is rooted in our unknowing, Milovan Djilas figures as central to Rodes's analysis; Djilas himself gave me crucial, but slightly cryptic, wisdom for my journey. Thus I feel haunted by some of the same characters and stories Rodes deems crucial in his pilgrim experience.
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Dyreson, Mark. "Uncertain Blackness: The Mysterious Case of Joseph Stadler." Journal of Olympic Studies 5, no. 1 (May 1, 2024): 48–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/26396025.5.1.03.
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Abstract Historians have identified George Coleman Poage as the first African American Olympian. Poage won two bronze medals in the hurdles at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics. In that same year, the name of another potential Black Olympian, Joseph Stadler, appeared briefly in a few newspaper stories previewing the games. Stadler clearly competed in St. Louis, winning a silver medal and bronze medal in the now-archaic forms of standing jumps. Whether he should join Poage on the roster of pioneering African American Olympians, however, remains a mystery among Olympic researchers—as does his racial identity. Analyzing the historical record regarding these claims and employing new information from census data and other public records reveals that Stadler was most likely white. His “misidentification,” however, reveals more than just a trivial episode about an inaccurate reading of racial identity from limited sources. The long history of narratives about Joseph Stadler's identity reveals important patterns about the social construction of race, illuminates the complexities of more than a century of seeking to depict the Olympics as a fulcrum of racial progress in American culture, and showcases the dangers of attempting to read “race” from historic photographs.
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Latocha, Sebastian. "„Wycinają nerki na dyskotece” – legenda miejska. Refleksje na marginesie folklorystyki i antropologii medycznej." Zeszyty Wiejskie 21 (January 1, 2015): 151–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1506-6541.21.11.
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The goal of the study is to describe and interpret an urban legend of macabre happening that reportedly has taken place in the “Protector Prestige Disco” in Wola Krzysztoporska, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland. It was a mysterious nephrectomy that today is being reported not only in a local discourse but also in the Internet – a space of the development of contemporary folklore. The author quote many strange stories narrated by dwellers of Wola Krzysztoporska. The author contextualise the urban legend in folkloristic and medical antrhropology
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Rifa'ie, Muhammad. "HEGEMONY ANALYSIS IN AJIDARMA SENO GUMIRA’S PENEMBAK MISTERIUS SHORT STORIES." LiNGUA: Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa dan Sastra 14, no. 2 (January 6, 2020): 293–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.18860/ling.v14i2.7469.
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This study aims to explain the ideological confrontation, the role of intellectual figures, and the formative role text of Penembak Misterius by Seno Gumira Ajidarma uses sociology of literature as the approach of the study with the specialized implementation of hegemony theory by Antonio Gramsci. The results of this study are as follows. First, the ideological confrontation in Penembak Misterius aims at denying the absolute authority of the New Order's formal ideology, namely militarism, development, capitalism, authoritarianism, hedonism, and radicalism. Second, the role of intellectual figures in Penembak Misterius is played to criticize capitalism, materialism, hedonism, developments, national urbanization, also criticizing New Order government officials, the mysterious shooting policy, and at the same time criticizes violence and human rights violations for children. Third, the formative role of the Penembak Misterius text acts as an interrogative text based on the practice of critical memory. It does not only serve as a documentation of historical events but also intends to link the historical events as an emancipation effort.
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Kim, Youme, and Kyungmi Kim. "Images of Tigers in Late Chosŏn Stories: In Relation to the Ecological Crisis of Chosŏn Tigers." Journal of Korean Studies 26, no. 2 (October 1, 2021): 349–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/07311613-9155233.
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Abstract This study examines the images of tigers in late Chosŏn stories as they relate to ecological changes during the late Chosŏn period. As a popular literary topic, tigers have held various and sometimes conflicting roles, ranging from Heaven’s sacred agents to brutal beasts. The increase in human population and the expansion of farmland caused the loss of tigers’ habitats and narrowed their food sources, which eventually increased tiger-human encounters and intensified state-led tiger extermination policies. This study shows that the images of tigers generally shifted from formidable and mysterious beings to controllable, wounded, and even obedient animals over time. The frequent descriptions of tigers killed by women, tigers asking for people’s help, and porridge-eating tigers in late Chosŏn stories reflect people’s modified view of tigers, even though actual tigers remained a threat during that period. A consideration of the ecological factors depicted in tiger stories over time suggests that changes in the societal point of view regarding these animals impact how tigers’ characters were portrayed.
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SAFONOVA, Yulia. "THE CASTLE OF MADELEINE ALLUSIONS OF MADELEINE." Astraea 2, no. 1 (2021): 127`—136. http://dx.doi.org/10.34142/astraea.2021.2.1.08.
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In a distant and wonderful place, surrounded by dense forests and deepest lakes, stands, as if towering above all earthly, the palace of magnificent view and impressive size. Twenty-five years ago, it was home to the royal family with their son and Crown Prince Adamingo. But at the age of seventeen, the prince had to become the ruler of an entire kingdom, and this circumstance changed him a lot. Close to the prosperous kingdom of the haughty, spoiled Crown Prince Adamingo was a castle as large as a royal palace. The appearance of this castle was so gloomy and frightening that it seemed that no one had lived there for many centuries. People living in the kingdom began to multiply mysterious rumors about this castle, telling the story that anyone who enters inside will never leave it. Mothers frightened their children with fictional stories about the many disappearances of little kids, that decided to play in the castle and never returned. Of course, these rumors instilled in people even greater fear of the mysterious castle.
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Bértolo, José. "Narração e Storytelling em Mysterious Object at Noon, de Apichatpong Weerasethakul." Matlit Revista do Programa de Doutoramento em Materialidades da Literatura 1, no. 2 (March 28, 2014): 57–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_1-2_4.
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Este texto propõe uma leitura de Mysterious Object at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2000), considerando questões de narração suscitadas pelo lugar central que o ato de storytelling ocupa no filme. Equacionam-se problemas tais como a ausência de texto prévio (argumento) e a atribuição de ordem ao filme pela narração oral, in loco, como se este se escrevesse à medida que vai sendo contado. Atentar-se-á em como, estruturando-se deste modo, o filme reflete sobre a especificidade do cinema enquanto máquina narrativa.AbstractThis essay is a close analysis of Mysterious Object at Noon, directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, in which are considered questions of narration motivated by the central place the act of storytelling holds in the film structure. Problems such as the nonexistence of a script and the way the film seems structured by oral narration, in loco, as if the film were being written as it is told, will be analyzed. Finally, I describe how, through this structure, the film reflects upon the specificity of cinema as a way of telling/showing stories. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_1-2_4
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Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie. "Традиция нарративов о таинственных существах Кентукки." ТРАДИЦИОННАЯ КУЛЬТУРА, no. 2 (August 14, 2021): 56–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.26158/tk.2021.22.2.004.
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This article studies legends and memorates about Kentucky cryptids and their socio-cultural roles in local and state identity. Kentucky cryptids are classified as one of three types: 1) natural creatures of unusual size or in an unusual habitat; 2) natural creatures as yet undocumented in biological classification systems; 3) creatures of supernatural or otherworldly origins. Built into the conception of Kentucky as a state are its frontier past and the beauty (and possible danger) of its wilderness. The stories about natural cryptids reinforce these core features of Kentucky identity. They emphasize pride in the state and in Kentucky heritage. Narratives about natural and supernatural cryptids also reveal contemporary concerns about environmental issues (pollution from coal mines and factories), United States and Kentucky history (racial policies), government and corporations (abuse of public trust, disrespect for the folk, and environmental degradation), and technology (railroads, dams). Данная статья рассматривает легенды и былички о таинственных существах (криптидах) в штате Кентукки и их социокультурные роли в формировании местной идентичности и идентичности штата. Криптиды из Кентукки можно разделить на три типа: 1) природные существа необычного размера или живущие в необычной среде обитания; 2) природные существа, до сих пор незафиксированные в биологической классификации; 3) существа сверхъестественного или потустороннего происхождения. Образ Кентукки строится на основе его прошлого как пограничного штата, а также на основе красоты (и возможной опасности) его дикой природы. Рассказы о криптидах подкрепляют основные черты идентичности Кентукки. В них чувствуется гордость за штат и наследие Кентукки. В нарративах о природных и сверхъестественных существах также присутствует современная озабоченность, связанная с экологическими проблемами (загрязнением от угольных шахт и заводов), историей США и Кентукки (расовой политикой), правительством и корпорациями (злоупотреблением общественным доверием, неуважением к народу и ухудшением окружающей среды) и технологиями (железными дорогами, плотинами).
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Kilcher, Andreas. "Medizin zwischen Mythos und Magie." Aschkenas 29, no. 1 (June 4, 2019): 147–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/asch-2019-0009.
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Abstract The tzaddik, a central figure in Hasidism, is revered as a »mysterious Rabbi« and acts as an adviser and particularly also as a healer. While both worldly medicine and its state agencies are rejected, he works with methods rooted in Practical Kabbalah. They focus on the use of magical words such as the names of God or of angels to which the Baal Shem, the Master of the Name, has access. Under the influence of their power he not only inscribes amulets and speaks prayers, but also tells, or becomes the protagonist of, stories with which he also mobilizes the divine forces. This contribution concentrates on the therapeutic function of story-telling, using examples both from the traditional Hasidic literature, the Shivhei ha-Besht for instance, and modern Jewish stories that draw on Hasidic literature, such as the work of Georg Langer and Joseph Roth.
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Nugroho, Faizal Hadi, Dian Risdiawati, and Evi Lia Suryaningsih. "Hikayat Indarjaya sebagai Suplemen Materi Cerita Fantasi Kelas VII Kurikulum Merdeka: Analisis Ciri Cerita Fantasi dan Implementasi Pembelajarannya." MARDIBASA: Jurnal Pembelajaran Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia 2, no. 2 (December 24, 2022): 154–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.21274/jpbsi.2022.2.2.154-171.
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This study aims to determine the suitability of Hikayat Indarjaya as a supplement to fantasy story material and describe the implementation of Hikayat Indarjaya in teaching fantasy stories for class VII SMP/MTs. The method used in this research was descriptive qualitative research. The data source was Hikayat Indarjaya, the result of a study published in 1995. The instruments used to collect data were data codification guidelines, data collection rubrics, and data analysis rubrics. The results of this study state that Hikayat Indajaya corresponds to the characteristics of fantasy stories, namely (1) there are magical, mysterious, or strange events, (2) open story ideas, (3) using various settings in places and times, (4) has a unique character, (5) fictitious, and (6) the use of language. Students can be given this hikayat material to strengthen understanding and be used as a supplement to fantasy story text material either through pupuh or script summaries.
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Krawczyk-Żywko, Lucyna. "Time Travelling with Jack the Ripper on Page and Screen." Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, no. 26/1 (September 11, 2017): 207–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.7311/0860-5734.26.1.13.
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The article discusses time-travelling Jack the Ripper narratives, the majority being short stories and episodes of TV series. Despite their different temporal foci – late-Victorian past, present, distant future – the texts revolve around four ways of depicting the mysterious murderer: as a timeless force, a killer who uses time travel to escape, a killer whose deeds are to be prevented, and, last but not least, a tool in the hands of future generations. They also indicate that creators and consumers of popular culture are not interested in discovering the Ripper’s identity as much as want to follow him through centuries.
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Mkonto, B. B. "The role of the nameless in isiXhosa ntsomi." Literator 30, no. 2 (July 16, 2009): 89–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v30i2.80.
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This article looks into the custom of not giving names to pivotal characters in some selected Xhosa tales. Given that the word “tales” means different things to different people, it is used in this article to refer to both fables (stories which deal with animals only) and folktales (stories dealing with both animals and humans). The unnaming practice is not uncommon in all types of tales and is applied to both males and females, young and old, as well as to strange mysterious beings. The motive for unnaming is analysed and its functions are alluded to. References to popular generic names of animals found in Xhosa tales are made for the sake of clarifying the need for naming, though these are not the subject of discussion here. It is therefore most fitting to use onomastics as the theoretical framework of this article in order to capture convincing patterns of the unnaming system and the creation of faceless characters in indigenous Xhosa tales.
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Woźniak, Kamila. "Rzeczywistość jako spisek na podstawie wybranych opowiadań Richarda Weinera." Slavica Wratislaviensia 169 (May 9, 2019): 57–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0137-1150.169.4.
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Reality as a conspiracy based on selected short stories by Richard WeinerIn this draft, the main theme is an attempt to analyse a conspiracy theory for its philosophical and ontological aspects but in the literary context. The author refers to selected stories by Richard Weiner. She presents her insights on the development of plots and conspiracy themes that depart from their commonly understood form. She shows the theme of reality as a mysterious set of certain premonitions and predetermined rules that control the life of the characters. Realita jako spiknutí na základě vybraných povídek Richarda WeineraHlavním tématem tohoto námětu je pokus o analýzu konspirační teorie z filozofického a ontologického hlediska, avšak v literárním kontextu. Autorka odkazuje na vybrané povídky Richarda Weinera. Uvádí jeho myšlenky důležité pro realizaci témat a motivů spiknutí, jež se od jejich běžně srozumitelné formy liší. Ukazuje motiv reality jako tajemnou sadu určitých pocitů a předem stanovených pravidel, která ovládají život hlavních postav.
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Zawacki, Alexander J. "Glitches and ghosts: The digital uncanny in video games and creepypasta." Horror Studies 15, no. 1 (April 1, 2024): 83–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/host_00082_1.
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This article seeks to address the phenomenon of glitches and ‘creepypasta’, or short anonymous stories (usually in prose but sometimes presented in other media), that focus on video games and related ludic media. The inherent uncanniness of the glitch – as an affront to player agency and an assertion of mysterious operations performed ‘under the hood’, as though possessed of an agency of their own – is assessed, as well as the ways in which such eerie interruptions are put to use in fictional narratives about haunted video games. It is argued that the glitch, as an instance of a video gamer asserting its own agency which is alien and often actively opposed to that of the player, is fertile ground for narratives about games which exert their own occulted willpower. Stories about such games often feature the player being overpowered by the media they engage with, inverting the normal ontological hierarchy between the player and the played.
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MUSIY, Valentina. "THE MOTIF OF DUALITY IN SVETOSLAV MINKOV’S STORIES." Ezikov Svyat volume 20 issue 1, ezs.swu.v20i1 (February 10, 2022): 136–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.37708/ezs.swu.bg.v20i1.18.
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This paper is dedicated to the investigation of the reasons for the double appearing in Svetoslav Minkov’s stories, the archetype roots of the duality motif in these works, the variants of duality and the connection of this motif with Minkov’s conception of the human. Three groups of stories in which the motif of duality has a constructive function are marked in the paper: bifurcation of the hero, when a part of his nature separates and starts its own existence; appearance of artificially made human likeness; representation of doubles by objects. Attention is paid mainly to the stories in which human beings and plants (or objects, things, etc.) are constantly replacing each other. Such stories are: “Blue Chrysanthemum”, “Asphalt” and “The Story of One Begonia”. The investigation of the story “Blue Chrysanthemum” is accompanied by parallels with the works of Nikolai Gogol (“Portrait”) and Alexander Grin (“Mysterious Disc” and “Grey Automobile”), in which the thing gains power over man, as well as with Karel Chapek’s story, which emphasizes the uniqueness of the blue chrysanthemum. Psychological and mystical motivations of what happened to the hero of the story “Blue Chrysanthemum” (fear as a cause of hallucinations or the mythological motif of the subject, which becomes the twin of its owner and avenges instead of him) are offered. In the stories “Asphalt” and “Story of One Begonia” the identification of heroes and objects (things) has another sense: it emphasizes the abnormality of the emptiness of life of the heroes. The author of the article applied to the study of Minkov's stories a motive analysis, hermeneutic strategies, as well as a typological method.
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Molnar, Angelika. "Metaphors in Laszlo Darvasi’s Short Stories of Magic Realism." Izvestia of Smolensk State University, no. 1(57) (July 3, 2022): 56–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.35785/2072-9464-2022-57-1-56-67.
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This paper explores the specifics of Laszlo Darvasi’s poetic language
aimed at creating original metaphors and similes based on universal images. The
purpose of the analysis is to disclose some tropological techniques that allow us
to interpret some of the mysterious and vague stories of the modern Hungarian
writer who used the style of magical realism.
The method of this study should be considered as a lingupoetic approach
to the tropes presented primarily by A.A. Potebnya.
The results confirm the literary significance of Darvasi’s poetic world:
rethinking of traditional images (including wood, a tree, a stone, a mountain), as
well as deployment and realization of unexpected and incompatible combinations
of semantisation. The presented interpretation gives an opportunity to look deeper
into the unique phenomenon in modern Hungarian literature that brings together
real historical events (labor camps or revolution) and archetypal images in an unusual poetic system. The tragic causes of historical situations are not disclosed by the writer, who focuses mainly on existential threat and life drama lurking in everyday life. The metaphorical plan contributes to the creation of this meaning. The results of the study, conducted in this article, can be used not only to familiarize new trends in literature of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, but also to study tropological issues.
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Bíró, Péter. "The Cuceb of Chilam Balam Books: Difrasismos and Intertextuality." Estudios de Cultura Maya 61 (April 21, 2023): 169–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ecm/61.002x4856001sm6.
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The Cuceb is one of the most mysterious texts in the Books of Chilam Balam written during the early Colonial Period. Previous scholars have commented that it recounts a fictitious katun and contains events from different epochs ranging from the 13th to the 17th centuries. The text itself incorporates allusions of historical and mythological stories with origins from the Postclassic and Classic Periods. In this paper I will examine some expressions and key parts of the Cuceb. I propose that these passages interconnect with other texts in the Books of Chilam Balam and Paris codex, which together point to the collapse of Mayapan, the last capital of the Northern Yucatan.
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Voß, Rebekka. "Entangled Stories: The Red Jews in Premodern Yiddish and German Apocalyptic Lore." AJS Review 36, no. 1 (April 2012): 1–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0364009412000013.
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“Far, far away from our areas, somewhere beyond the Mountains of Darkness, on the other side of the Sambatyon River…there lives a nation known as the Red Jews.” The Red Jews are best known from classic Yiddish writing, most notably from Mendele'sKitser masoes Binyomin hashlishi(The Brief Travels of Benjamin the Third). This novel, first published in 1878, represents the initial appearance of the Red Jews in modern Yiddish literature. This comical travelogue describes the adventures of Benjamin, who sets off in search of the legendary Red Jews. But who are these Red Jews or, in Yiddish,di royte yidelekh? The term denotes the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, the ten tribes that in biblical times had composed the Northern Kingdom of Israel until they were exiled by the Assyrians in the eighth century BCE. Over time, the myth of their return emerged, and they were said to live in an uncharted location beyond the mysterious Sambatyon River, where they would remain until the Messiah's arrival at the end of time, when they would rejoin the rest of the Jewish people.
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Breeva, Т. N. "Specific features of the plot construction in V. Kataev’s stories “The Lonely Sail Is White” and “The Son of the Regiment”." Philology and Culture, no. 4 (December 29, 2023): 97–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.26907/2782-4756-2023-74-4-97-103.
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The article examines different options for the interaction of children’s literature and the literature of the large canon plot models in the works of Valentin Kataev. The object of the study is two of his stories: the first part of the tetralogy “Waves of the Black Sea” – “The Lonely Sail Is White” and “The Son of the Regiment”.The first story is distinguished by a fairly obvious orientation towards the model of the Revolution conceptualization that developed at the turn of the 1910s and 1920s. The mystery model determines the nature of the plot construction, forming a certain internal plot, presented by the mythologemes of “Red Easter”/ “Working Easter” and “sails”. The mythologems are built along two storylines in the parallel development, at the end of the story they charge the ideological load of the traditional romantic image with a mysterious meaning.The second story is characterized by its inclusion into the mythology of the “big family” being constructed at this stage. This is associated with a shift in a psychologically grounded plot action towards epicization, which is embodied in the accentuated archetypal component. The mythologeme of the “big family” is presented in the work in the context of ideological connotations common to the given time and is realized at all levels of the text: its plot, characters, images and chronotops. As a result, the nature of temporal conceptualization changes: the mysterious processuality of time gives way to temporal circularity.
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Koskina, Mariia. "Ancient Bogatyr to Electric River: The Modernized Mythology of the Yenisei." Soviet and Post-Soviet Review 49, no. 1 (February 16, 2022): 3–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/18763324-bja10051.
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Abstract In propaganda related to the industrial hero-project of the Krasnoyarsk Dam (built 1956–1972), the Soviet press synthesized a narrative of modern conquest of nature by means of advanced hydrology and hydraulic technology with folklore-like myths that emphasized the often-mysterious greatness of the Yenisei River, the glory of the Soviet state, and the heroic feats of Soviet people. This mythology was a complex mixture of imagery that drew on the Indigenous groups of Central Siberia (the Evenks, Tuvans, and Buryats) that had been displaced and alienated by the Russian state and the historic Russian residents of Siberia. These were the very groups whose worlds and stories had been deemed culturally backward. The mythology also incorporated imperial legends of Siberian conquest and embellished stories of Lenin’s sojourn in pre-revolutionary Siberia. Soviet print literature imaginatively recreated the Yenisei River as Ionessi and Ulug-Khem – “big water” or “big river,” “brother of the ocean,” and a mighty bogatyr (or warrior-hero) cursed to be a river. Such seemingly archaic imagery may seem to contradict the narrative of socialist industrial progress in the Yenisei basin, but this article highlights how such myths were modernized and mobilized in support of late-Soviet mega-engineering projects. It argues that the modernized myths of the Yenisei’s transformation – magical and through time – aimed to show nature in flux. People constantly acted upon it, transformed it, and cooperated with it. Moreover, these myths reflected the popular fascination with the immense, often dangerous and always mysterious, features of the Siberian landscape. Thus, in contrast to Stalinist industrialization, Soviet propagandists of the Cold War era did not always demystify nature; they also built their rhetoric upon folkloric and Indigenous conceptualizations of human-nature interaction and environmental change and created a sense of belonging to the place for the people who voluntarily participated in Siberian development.
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Putri Julyan, Alya Zahra, and Tianis Yuliansyah. "Analisis Semiotika Saussure Pada Poster Series “Girl From Nowhere” Menggunakan metode Ferdinand De Saussure." Magenta | Official Journal STMK Trisakti 7, no. 02 (August 22, 2023): 1121–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.61344/magenta.v7i02.105.
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Girl From Nowhere is a Thai series from Netflix under GMM Studios. This series has mystery, horror, and thriller genres. Released in 2018. The first episode aired on August 8, 2018. It tells the story of a girl named Nanno whose origins are unknown. The plot of this series revolves around the role of the main character, namely Nanno, a mysterious girl who transfers to various private schools in Thailand. Her role is to reveal the lies, secrets, and hypocrisy of the whole school. Research objective Knowing that every episode of Girl From Nowhere is a true story. The tragedies in this television series are based on case reports in Thailand. That way, these stories are turned into a victory for the girl who is the victim in these cases. By using the Qualitative Approach method. In the film Girl From Nowhere, if it is associated with the theory of semiotics by Ferdinand D Saussure, the signifier and signified that appear are, as a marker of physical form, namely the film Girl From Nowhere and the sign is that the plot of this series revolves around the role of the
main character, namely Nanno, a mysterious girl who transfers to various private schools in Thailand with horror, fantasy and mystery genres. Conclusion The stories offered in the Girl from Nowhere series are not the result of mere imagination. The series is inspired by various tragedies that actually happened in Thailand. However, this series was created as a 'happy ending' version for the victims of these tragedies. The victim who is actually suffering is positioned as the winner, while the perpetrator is made to feel the pain experienced by the victim.
Keywords: Semiotics, Ferdinand de Saussure, The Girl From Nowhere, Series
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Henck, Nick. "Subcommander Marcos and Detective Fiction: The Case of Mexico’s Mysterious Masked Man." Crime Fiction Studies 3, no. 2 (September 2022): 194–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cfs.2022.0074.
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The paper focuses on Mexican guerrilla leader and global rebel icon Subcommander Marcos, and in particular on his acquaintance with and affinity for detective fiction. More specifically, it explores his exposure to the genre and the influence it had upon him; his references to it in his communiqués; and his relationship with the detective novelists Manuel Vázquez Montalbán from Spain and Paco Ignacio Taibo II from Mexico. This study examines numerous communiqués and oral presentations by the Subcommander that mention Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories as well as Marcos and Taibo II’s co-authored highly-political crime novel, The Uncomfortable Dead. This novel, which represents Marcos’s longest piece of unified prose-writing and features his literary creation, the indigenous detective Elías Contreras, exhibits certain shared preoccupations on the part of Marcos, Montalbán and Taibo: namely, the detrimental impact of neoliberal globalisation, and the importance of historical memory in combatting it. Finally, the paper explores the factors that led Marcos to employ a crime novel as a major vehicle for conveying his socially inclusive, pro-indigenous, pro-ecology, pro-democracy, pro-female empowerment, pro-LGBTQ, anti-capitalist and anti-neoliberal globalisation political philosophy.
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Kučerková, Magda. "The Mystical Narrative as a Way of Revealing the Truth of Faith." Verba Theologica 22, no. 2 (2023): 63–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.54937/vt.2023.22.2.63-81.
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The biblical understanding of faith shows that it is a phenomenon inherently connected with the perception and experience of God‘s presence and action in human history. Revelation is considered the foundation of faith, as recorded by both testaments: from the words or personal stories of the patriarchs and the prophets to the stories of the Gospel and the witness of Christ‘s followers. The act of faith expects that the individual or the nation will fully embrace Revelation, doing so in devotion and trust. Reflecting on the relationship between religion and faith, this study will primarily draw upon the paradigm of Christian knowledge and, especially, – utilizing the method of literary interpretation with interdisciplinary overlaps – from the mystical experiences of selected medieval authors (such as Margherita de Cortona, Angela da Foligno, and Chiara da Montefalco). This is because the mystical experience mirrors a multitude of attributes that accompany the act of faith. And even though the mystical experience is due to its mysterious character fundamentally inexpressible, it remains an original source of revealing the processes of the human being‘s spiritual maturation.
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Ward, Barbara A., and Terrell A. Young. "Profiles and Perspectives: Phillip Hoose: Writing for a Better World." Language Arts 88, no. 3 (January 1, 2011): 232–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/la201113417.
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This article features a profile of award-winning author, Phillip Hoose. Though Hoose wears many hats in his day-to-day world, thoughts of social justice are never far from his mind and heart. It might seem that books about basketball (i.e., Hoosiers, 1986), an early civil rights pioneer, teen activists, and a mysterious bird have little in common, but underneath each of those books lies the author’s determination to bring attention to little-known stories. Obviously, he relishes finding and telling the complicated, often multifaceted stories that rarely appear in today’s history texts. Claudette Colvin: Twice toward Justice (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009) nabbed the National Book Award, was named an Honor Book for the Newbery, Sibert, and Jane Addams Awards, and made just about every best-of list for books published in 2009. Curious about how Hoose manages to take events that are decades old and breathe life into them, the authors of this article reread all of his books and then interviewed Hoose for this profile.
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Moberly, R. W. L. "To Hear the Master's Voice: Revelation and Spiritual Discernment in the Call of Samuel." Scottish Journal of Theology 48, no. 4 (November 1995): 443–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0036930600036358.
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The call of Samuel in the temple at Shiloh (1 Sam. 3) is probably one of the better known stories of the Old Testament. There is an obvious imaginative appeal about the mysterious voice of God coming to a child who is unable to understand what is happening and yet who becomes able to hear the word of God for himself. But although the story has received frequent commentary in recent Old Testament scholarship, and has even had a monograph devoted to it by R. Gnuse, the most memorable part of the story, God's repeated calling to Samuel and Samuel's running to Eli, has received relatively little attention. This paper will try to remedy that omission.
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Cafagna, Fabio. "Images of Transparency and Resurrection from Leonardo da Vinci to Crisóstomo Martínez." Nuncius 32, no. 1 (2017): 52–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18253911-03201003.
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The essay aims to discuss the fortune of the well-known iconography of the “transparent body” by Leonardo da Vinci, clearly and first of all in the field of artistic anatomy. Some of the most illuminating evidence of this legacy can be found in the plates realized in Paris at the end of the 17th century by the mysterious Valencian engraver Crisóstomo Martínez. These incredible documents are strictly connected to the odd vogue of transparency that, in the same years, seems to affect also European literature, e.g. the pastoral novel Le Berger extravagant by Charles Sorel, the science fiction stories by Cyrano de Bergerac and the famous and “exemplar” tale El licenciado Vidriera by Miguel de Cervantes.
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Komarova, Olga. "Новый старый русский. О творчестве Б. Акунина(New Old Russian. About the Writings of B. Akunin)." Poljarnyj vestnik 4 (February 1, 2001): 71. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/6.1411.
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The name of B. Akunin appeared on the Russian literary market about three years ago. His novel "Azazel" was announced as the first in a "literary project" which aimed at presenting "all genres of the classical criminal novel". The mysterious author managed not only to produce eight novels of this project but also two other novels about Russian provincial life and one about the adventures of a young Englishman in contemporary Russia. The author immediately became a success, and disclosed his real name - Grigory Chkhartishvili, a well-known man of letters, a translator and connoisseur of Japanese language and culture. This may provide an explanation for his literary manner: his novels are out of the ordinary not only as criminal stories with a complicated plot and an ingenious detective to solve the mysteries, but also as works of postmodernistic literature with intertextual connotations and complicated historical and literary associations. It is rather unusual that the author of seemingly entertaining criminal novels should provoke political debates amongst his readers about his political message. The article deals not only with the facts of B.Akunin's literary work and its criticism, but also presents an attempt to analyze his working methods and place him in the context of postsoviet Russian prose.
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Kusumaningsih, Sri Ayu, and Ahmad Bahtiar. "Relationship of Characters and Illustration in Short Story 9 Dari Nadira By Leila S. Chudori." Bahasa: Jurnal Keilmuan Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia 1, no. 2 (January 30, 2021): 86–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.26499/bahasa.v1i2.13.
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This study is to find out the relationship of characters to illustrations in a collection of 9short stories from NadiraKarya Leila S. Chudori. In the collection, there are four short stories that contain illustrations of the main characters namely "Melukis Langit”, "Tasbih", "Sebilah Pisau", and "At Pedder Bay". The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative method by using Charles Sanders Pierce's Semiotic Theory which includes sign and object. The study of characterization or characterization is done in two methods namely direct (telling) and indirect (showing). The results of this study indicate that out of the 4 short stories analyzed only 3 short stories that have character relationships with illustrations, namely the short story "Melukis Langit", "Tasbih" and "Sebilah Pisau". Short story of "Melukis Langit" depicts Nadira's character who is strong against her father's behavior since the death of his mother. The short story illustration shows Nadira crying in the bathroom to vent her sadness. Short story "Tasbih" describes Mr. X with a mysterious character illustrated by showing Mr. X's face full of mystery while the short story "Sebilah Pisau" tells Kris who is Nadira's secret admirer. Kris's character is displayed with illustrations illustrating the event when Nadira was surprised to see Kris's table filled with Nadira's picture. Short story "At Pedder Bay" tells Nadira's old friend Marc who is also an admirer of Nadira for a long time. The main character, Marc in this short story is not illustrated in the illustration. The short story shows a background, namely the lake and the figure of the woman sitting pensively.
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Castle, Philip. "Communications, contacts, ethics and the mysterious slow death of the contemporary police reporter." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 13, no. 1 (April 1, 2007): 59–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v13i1.884.
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This article, based on interviews, research and the author’s personal experience in the media for more than 30 years as a police/crime reporter, former Head of Public Affairs for the Australian Federal Police and journalism lecturer, will examine the unique challenges and role of reporting police/emergency/crime journalism—how it can work and how it can break down. It will particularly examine the mostly unequal relationships between journalists and official sources where the various emergency services, notably the police, trade on releasing selected information and avoid releasing information if it is unfavourable or inconvenient. It will cover the important aspects of sources, both official and unofficial, on and off-the-record agreements, anonymous sources, ethically and unethically obtained material and the all important overriding considerations of the law including criminal processes, defamation, sub judice, jurisdictional restrictions, pre-trial publicity and trial by the media. These stories can challenge even the most experienced journalist placing demands on almost all of their skills. If done properly, journalists can fulfil the paramount responsibility of informing the public on critical matters and maintaining the media’s role of being an effective Fourth Estate.
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Lin, Guanqiong. "Multiculturality as a Subject of the Image in the Collection of Short Stories “The Stars of Manchuria” by A. P. Hejdok." Litera, no. 1 (January 2024): 65–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8698.2024.1.69682.
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The article is devoted to the study of the multicultural phenomenon of the short stories by the popular writer of the Harbin diaspora A. P. Hejdok, who published the collection “The Stars of Manchuria” in 1934. The author of the article analyzes in detail the events in the works, the behavioral priorities and mindset of the characters, which organically reflect the cultural elements of China, Russia, Mongolia, Egypt, Manchurian ethnic groups, as well as biblical plots. The emphasis is on analyzing the mysterious world of China through Buddhism and Taoism. During the research, the following short stories in the collection were mainly studied: “Three Duds” (1932), “The Manchu Princess” (1930), “Miami” (1931), “The Temple of Dreams” (1932), “The Unknown” (1931), “The Dogs Howl” (1929) and “The Path” (1931). The article uses descriptive, hermeneutic, comparative, historical-literary and historical-cultural methods to analyze the texts. The scientific novelty of this article lies in the fact that for the first time a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, including cultural, analysis of the short stories in the collection “The Stars of Manchuria” was carried out, details not touched upon in previously published works were examined, and based on the analysis of the multicultural phenomenon, the artistic method in the short stories is determined for the first time. The research resulted in the following conclusions: 1. Hejdok in the collection integrates various cultural details in his own way, which make the works expressive, engaging, and contribute to the development of the plot. 2. The multicultural phenomenon gives the short stories of the collection myth-making characteristics against the backdrop of historical reality. By combining realistic description and this cultural phenomenon, Hejdok creates a distinctive prose similar to magic realism, the appearance of which coincides with the beginning of the writer’s creative path.
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Yu, Chen-Wei. "Mise En Abyme and the Ontological Uncertainty of Magical Events in At the Back of the North Wind." Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature 18, no. 2 (December 1, 2008): 48–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/pecl2008vol18no2art1168.
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George MacDonald’s novel At the Back of the North Wind tells the story of a boy’s magical journey with a mysterious figure, the North Wind, who reveals to the boy his spiritual life. this novel has been categorised as fantasy, in spite of the fact that it ‘has a very real setting...which is London sometime during the middle of the nineteenth century’ (Reis 1972, p.82). Simply defined, fantasy is a story in which magical events actually take place in the story world, while they are unlikely to happen in reality, in contrast to realistic stories in which ‘everything... must conform to our sensory experience of the real world’ (Attebery 2004, pp.295-296).
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Wang, Mengyao. "An Inquiry into the Folklore of King Lanling and the Hidden Cultural Psychology Behind It." Advances in Education, Humanities and Social Science Research 7, no. 1 (October 25, 2023): 664. http://dx.doi.org/10.56028/aehssr.7.1.664.2023.
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For the legendary historical figure King Lanling, not many written records have been left in the official history, but the folklore about him is more than 200,000 words long. These legends, which were created and spread by the grassroots people, are legendary and romantic, although they are not contained in the history books. Not only can we see the words, deeds, character, merits and life experiences of King Lanling, but also reflect the psychological basis of the people in circulating and processing these stories. In this paper, we will analyze the legends about King Lanling that are widely circulated among the people, especially the most mysterious one about King Lanling wearing a mask in battle, and explore the reasons for these legends and the hidden cultural psychology.
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Hastuti, Fransiska Dewi. "The Degree of Epistemic Modality in Poe’s the Murders in the Rue Morgue and its Indonesian Translation." Journal La Sociale 5, no. 2 (March 6, 2024): 318–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.37899/journal-la-sociale.v5i2.1103.
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The epistemic modality in detective story helps to build the mysterious atmosphere since its linguistic feature deals with the speaker’s assessment toward the assumptive truth. Readers of detective stories can be captivated by the uncertainty and probability that hinder them from uncovering the truth until the stories end. Thus, this research aims to describe the degree or value of epistemic modality in Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue and its Indonesian equivalent. A descriptive translation approach is used, and a comparative analysis is employed in this research toward the source and target texts. The results show that the modal markers of low degree dominate the English original story, and of the high degree are for the Indonesian translation. However, consistency in translating the degree of epistemic modality is shown by the domination of similar value combination: High-High, Median-Median, and Low-Low. Meanwhile, the types of modal markers presenting the degree of epistemic modality are similarly used in both English and Indonesian versions of the story, except for the relational attributive clause. The English epistemic modality mostly happens in form of positive modal auxiliaries (46.8%) and the Indonesian Epistemic markers are dominated by modal adverbs (27.7%).
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Simpkin, Sarah. "Books Reviewed by: Kelly Schultz, Martin Chandler, Andrew Nicholson, Erika Reinhardt, Larry Laliberté." Bulletin - Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives (ACMLA), no. 159 (July 23, 2018): 15–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.15353/acmla.n159.232.
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Clemmer, Gina. The GIS 20 Essential Skills, third edition. Redlands, California: Esri Press, 2017. 182p. $49.99 US. ISBN 9781589485129.
Davidson, Peter. Atlas of Empires. Pennsylvania: Fox Chapel Publishing, 2018. 240p. $19.99 US. ISBN 978-1504800891.
Davies, John and Kent, Alexander J. The Red Atlas; How the Soviet Union secretly mapped the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 272 p. $35.00 US. ISBN: 9780226389578.
Johnson, Alexander. The First Mapping of America: The General Survey of British North America. New York: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2017. 320 p. $110 US (hardcover). ISBN: 978-1-806-442-9.
Shoalts, Adam. A History of Canada in Ten Maps, Epic Stories of Charting a Mysterious Land. Canada: Allen Lane, 2017. 344p. $36.00 CAD. ISBN 978-0-670-06946-0.
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Veling, Terry A. "A Journey into the Talmudic Ocean with Emmanuel Levinas." Journal of Theological Interpretation 11, no. 2 (October 1, 2017): 181–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/jtheointe.11.2.0181.
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ABSTRACT Along with his philosophical works, Emmanuel Levinas also produced collections of his own Talmudic commentaries. He credits his Talmudic learning to an enigmatic and mysterious teacher, Chouchani, who influenced Levinas in the postwar years. Levinas gives little credence to the rise of modern historical-critical methods of exegesis. Rather, the method he learned from Chouchani drew on ancient practices of rabbinic and Talmudic interpretation. The meanings taught by Talmudic texts are drawn from the deeply symbolic well of Scripture, filled with signs, stories, and teachings. According to Levinas, we cannot rely solely on an historical method to access the deeper well of meanings found in the Scriptures. The aim of this essay is to explore Levinas's critique of historical criticism and to distil some of the hermeneutical approaches he proposes in his Talmudic commentaries.