Dissertations / Theses: 'Mythology'

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Baudier, Robin. "A Sister's Mythology." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2014. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1846.

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Coupe, Laurence. "Literature, mythology and ecology." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.422124.

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Robinson, Scott E. (Scott Elmon) 1961. "Dichotomy in American Western Mythology." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1991. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500528/.

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The fundamental dichotomy between savage and civilized man is examined within the archetypal Western myth of American culture. The roots of the dichotomy are explored through images produced between 1888 and 1909 by artists Frederic Remington and Charles Russell. Four John Ford films are then used as a basis for the "dichotomous archetype" approach to understanding Western myth in film. Next, twenty-nine "historical" and "contemporary" Western movies are discussed chronologically, from The Virginian (1929) to Dances with Wolves (1990), in terms of the savage/civilized schema as it is personified by the roles of archetypal characters. The conclusion proposes a potential resolution of the savage/civilized conflict through an ecumenical mythology that recognizes a universal reverence for nature.

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Bek-Pedersen, Karen. "Nornir in Old Norse mythology." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/29143.

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The primary object of the thesis is to discuss a particular group of female supernatural beings called ‘nornir’ and their relationship to the Old Norse concept of fate. Although well-known and often mentioned in scholarship dealing with Old Norse culture, these beings are all too often dealt with in overly superficial ways. The research presented in the thesis seeks to go much deeper in order to properly understand the nature and role of ‘nornir’ in the Old Norse world view, and the conclusions reached importantly overturn a number of stereotypical conceptions that have long dominated our understanding of ‘nornir’. The discussion of these beings falls into four main chapters: a discussion of the similarities and differences between ‘nornir’ and several other kinds of female supernatural beings; a discussion of certain symbolic aspects relating the dwelling place of the ‘nornir’ to their strongly feminine nature; a discussion of the well-established image in which fate is represented through different kinds of textile work, and the problems that surround this metaphor in the Old Norse sources; and a discussion of the Old Norse vocabulary relating to fate and the quasi-legal aspects of the ‘nornir’. The thesis focuses on Old Norse culture and uses predominantly Old Norse source material. Comparative material, especially Celtic, Anglo-Saxon and Classical, is, however, employed when this is thought to be relevant.

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Zilleruelo, Arturo Goldbarth Albert. "Dream landscapes A personal mythology /." Diss., A link to full text of this thesis in SOAR, 2007. http://soar.wichita.edu/dspace/handle/10057/1187.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English.
"May 2007." Title from PDF title page (viewed on Dec. 29, 2007). Thesis adviser:Albert Goldbarth. Includes bibliographic references (leaves 34-39).

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Lee, Chanju. "Birth and Women in Mythology." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2008. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/35.

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The Birth is a multi-media video installation inspired by my personal experiences of a miscarriage and the births of my two children. The work is influenced by the mythologies found in Korean culture that focus on the mother figure as a ¡°Great Mother¡±. She is an ¡°ideal woman¡±, a ¡°good mother¡± and a ¡°sincere wife¡±. Working abstractly across the media of painting, video, digital animation, and the paintings of my son, The Birth exploits metaphors and symbols, to tell the story of women, especially the stories of mothers. The work speaks to motherly love and my own identity as an artist and a mother.

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Pascone, Valeria. "Piramo e Tisbe, Narciso e Semele : tre miti ovidiani in Dante." Thesis, Grenoble, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012GRENL036.

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La thèse, intitulée "Tre miti ovidiani in Dante : Piramo e Tisbe, Narciso e Semele" est une analyse de la présence de ces trois fabulae des Métamorphoses dans l'œuvre de Dante. La sélection des mythes a été dictée par la nécessité de définir un champ aussi vaste et par l'intention de mettre en évidence la relation entre l'Eros et la Connaissances, qui est si important dans le système poétique et philosophique de l'auteur florentin.Cette étude se fie par ailleurs l'objective de souligner la manière dont Dante utilise le modèle d'Ovide: la rencontre avec la source classique prévoit un dialogue continu, à la fois textuel et théorique-conceptuel. Le mythe devient ainsi un récit qui faut démêler dans ses applications multiples et parfois contradictoires. En ce qui concerne les sources, une attention particulière a été accordée aux commentaires médiévaux sur les Métamorphoses. En particulier, les œuvres suivantes ont été gardées à l'esprit : le Allegoriae super Ovidii Metamorphosi de Arnolfo d'Orléans, le Integumenta Ovidii de Jean de Garland, l'exégèse de Giovanni del Virgilio et l'Ovide moralisé. Ce poème mythographique de la première moitié du XIVe siècle, même si postérieur, s'est révélé utile en vue d'une reconstruction de la réception du mythe après la Commedia. On a donc essayé de reconstruire la perception réelle que le Moyen Age avait du texte d'Ovide, en prenant également en compte la présence des fabulae dans la littérature vernaculaire antérieure ou contemporaine de Dante.L'ensemble de l'analyse tend à montrer comment, dans le voyage de perfectionnement de Dante, le concept d'Eros soit intimement lié à la possibilité d'une vraie connaissance, à condition qu'elle soit soutenue par la raison et la foi
Analysis of three ovidian myths in Dante's Comedy

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Marshall, Diane Connelly Frances S. "The liminal mythology of Anish Kapoor." Diss., UMK access, 2004.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Dept. of Art and Art History. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2004.
"A thesis in art history." Typescript. Advisor: Frances S. Connelly. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Feb. 27, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 181-197). Online version of the print edition.

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Indergaard, Henrik. "Pindar and the mythology of Heracles." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.543667.

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Miller, Louise May Whilhemina. "Classical mythology and the contemporary playwright." Thesis, Kingston University, 2014. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/29879/.

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This practice-based thesis explores, through the creation of three new full-length plays, the ways in which a contemporary playwright might engage with classic mythology, specifically ancient Greek mythology in the development of new work. The plays form a triptych, each inspired by a single, yet interconnected Greek myth: their mythic inspirations are as follows, Sodium (2010-11) Theseus and the Minotaur, Sulphur (2011-12) Ariadne at Naxos, and Silver (2010) Icarus and Daedalus. Non-dramatically extant ancient Greek myths were selected in order to seek to explore dramatic possibilities beyond Greek tragedy. The diverse ways in which this body of work was approached is framed by the influence of contemporary theatre practice. Alongside this creative enquiry, the thesis explores the impetus which prompted practitioners to turn to classical mythology for inspiration over two millennia since the myths were created. Reflection on the processes which led to the creation of these plays in relation to the author’s own highlights potential conflicts between ancient and contemporary theatre practice, and seeks to explore ways in which the juxtaposition between traditional and contemporary approaches to theatre making can spark creative engagements. The fission between tradition and subversion was a key factor in the creation of the plays now presented, offering possible insights into the ways in which contemporary practitioners can benefit from a playful engagement with traditional practice in order to generate new work.

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Kunin, Seth Daniel. "A structuralist analysis of Hebrew mythology." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272384.

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Higgins, Andrew S. "The genesis of J.R.R. Tolkein's mythology." Thesis, Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10369/7528.

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This thesis critically examines the earliest creative work of J.R.R. Tolkien, from which the first version of his mythology would emerge, as one coherent whole, rather than a series of individual creative acts. It argues that all aspects of Tolkien's creativity worked in a dialectic way to bring to life an invented secondary world the complexity of which fantasy literature had not seen before. In examining Tolkien's early creative process this study also offers an alternative profile and assessment of J.R.R. Tolkien, in contradistinction to the popular image of him as the elderly Oxford don, by critically reading him as a young man, student, budding philologist, soldier and World War One survivor. The scope of this thesis is a holistic examination of Tolkien's earliest creative output comprising poetry, prose, language invention and visual works and includes analysis of several of Tolkien’s early creative works which remain either unpublished or under-analysed. The study uses several contextual frameworks to offer an in-depth analysis of Tolkien’s early imaginative language invention, a neglected area in Tolkien studies, in spite of being at the core of Tolkien’s creative process. This thesis, therefore, is critically responding to a gap in Tolkien and fantasy literature scholarship, and offers new insights on the earliest writing phases of one of the most influential fantasy authors of the 20th century. The introductory chapter presents an overview of Tolkien criticism and defines the scope and range of the thesis. Chapter two examines how myth-making and language invention came together in Tolkien’s earliest works and argues that these two key elements become inextricably intertwined in the first full expression of Tolkien’s early mythology, The Book of Lost Tales. Chapter three explores the underlying religious underpinnings of Tolkien's mythology and his early attempt to employ overt Roman Catholic words and ideas into his emerging secondary world. This chapter goes on to demonstrate how Tolkien combined Roman Catholic ideas with elements of both pagan mythology and Victorian spiritualism into the fabric of his secondary world. Chapter four focuses on the role of visual expression in Tolkien's early mythology by reading two major groups of documents from this period: published drawings and paintings in which Tolkien expressed his early mythic ideas; and a group of visually oriented ‘para-textual’ elements, such as maps, charts and samples of Tolkien’s invented writing systems. These visual representations are explored as ‘trans-medial’ components which, along with layered narratives and language invention, make up the fabric of Tolkien’s invented secondary world. The last chapter of this thesis explores several ways Tolkien experimented with in order to link his growing body of mythology to the primary world. It examines Tolkien’s first ‘framework’ of transmission which relied on dreams, and dream vision, to attempt this link. The second half of this chapter explores how Tolkien developed a parallel narrative transmission ‘framework’ through the re-imagining and re-purposing of Germanic myth and legend. The thesis also includes a series of appendices: a chronology outlining Tolkien’s creative works from this time; a list of the books he borrowed from the Exeter College Library as an undergraduate; a detailed list of examples of Tolkien's early language invention from the time; and a transcript of a report on the literary talk Tolkien gave at Exeter College on the Anglo-Catholic poet Francis Thompson.

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Berger, Emile. "Germanic mythology in Richard Wagner's 'Der Ring'." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=33873.

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Richard Wagner, in writing the text which would become the libretto of his four operas comprising the Ring was influenced greatly by German Mythology as well as old Norse writings. His main sources are the Volsungensaga, the Thidreksaga and the Nibelungenlied. Certain portions of the Ring follow closely the events described in some of the sagas, other portions have been changed and elaborated to achieve theatrical effect. I have endeavoured to explain the differences between the sources and the finished masterpiece. Whether his version of the tales was to ensure good theatre or whether he felt that he was improving on the originals is a moot point. The similarities are sufficient to prove that he had totally immersed himself in the literature available and no doubt felt himself to be a worthy protagonist of this culture. There is no doubt that his music is a masterpiece which may be enjoyed with or without any depth of knowledge of its origins.

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Edwards, David. "Keats, mythology and the politics of sexuality." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.321583.

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Avis, Robert John Roy. "The social mythology of medieval Icelandic literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2837907c-57c8-4438-8380-d5c8ba574efd.

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This thesis argues that the corpus of Old Norse-Icelandic literature which pertains to Iceland contains an intertextual narrative of the formation of Icelandic identity. An analysis of this narrative provides an opportunity to examine the relationship between literature and identity, as well as the potency of the artistic use of the idea of the past. The thesis identifies three salient narratives of communal action which inform the development of a discrete Icelandic identity, and which are examined in turn in the first three chapters of the thesis. The first is the landnám, the process of settlement itself; the second, the origin and evolution of the law; and the third, the assimilation and adaptation of Christianity. Although the roots of these narratives are doubtless historical, the thesis argues that their primary roles in the literature are as social myths, narratives whose literal truth- value is immaterial, but whose cultural symbolism is of overriding importance. The fourth chapter examines the depiction of the Icelander abroad, and uses the idiom of the relationship between þáttr (‘tale’) and surrounding text in the compilation of sagas of Norwegian kings Morkinskinna to consider the wider implications of the relationship between Icelandic and Norwegian identities. Finally, the thesis concludes with an analysis of the role of Sturlunga saga within this intertextual narrative, and its function as a set of narratives mediating between an identity grounded in social autonomy and one grounded in literature. The Íslendingasögur or ‘family sagas’ constitute the core of the thesis’s primary sources, for their subject-matter is focussed on the literary depiction of the Icelandic society under scrutiny. In order to demonstrate a continuity of engagement with ideas of identity across genres, a sample of other Icelandic texts are examined which depict Iceland or Icelanders, especially when in interaction with non-Icelandic characters or polities.

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BoisAubin, Pierre A. "Digital Preservation of Haitian Mythology Music Notation." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:24078357.

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This project aims at preserving Haitian mythology music; it is conceptualized as having two components: • Digital Preservation Archive: The process generates equivalent notation of hardcopies as well as supplementary audio clip. The resulting artifacts are archived in a website. • Music Production Using Media Technologies: is an effort to stimulate interest in the music. Digital media technologies are applied toward arranging mythology songs for small Afro Western styled musical group. We design a workflow for notating, recording, and staging the music.

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Natali, Andrea. "Il mito nell'opera di Giacomo Leopardi." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018AIXM0063.

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À partir de la constatation de l’absence du mot mito dans les écrits de Leopardi on a essayé de reconstruire le rapport changeant de Leopardi avec le mythe en en mettant en lumière la cohérence substantielle. De l’approche érudite et démystifiant propre à la rédaction du Saggio sopra gli errori popolari degli antichi on est passé à la lecture du Discorso di un italiano intorno alla poesia romantica. Du Discorso on a analysé la défense de la valeur poétique des fables anciennes et la démarcation des conditions de possibilité de l’usage des fables anciennes par les poètes modernes. Les pages du Zibaldone ont nous permis de comprendre le motif du recours au favoloso biblique et le motif de la non-réalisation du projet des Inni cristiani. Si à cause du changement des opinioni popolari les fables grecques ne sont plus capables de susciter la persuasion dont la fiction littéraire a besoin, le favoloso tiré par la tradition biblique se démontre être moins indiqué par rapport à celui païen à l’emploi en littérature. Alla Primavera et l’Inno ai patriarchi semblent prendre congé des fables anciennes or pendant les ans successifs Leopardi émancipe le statut de la mythologie de la religion en créant les bases pour un approche diffèrent à la réécriture des matériaux mythologiques. Le Operette morali et la catabase de Leccafondi dans les Paralipomeni constituent le résultat de l’émancipation des figures de la mythologie grecque de leur propre sfondo di senso : le cosmos. La création d’un sfondo di senso capable de mener au langage ce que de la nature des hommes et des choses est changé pendant les siècles jette les bases pour un emploi moderne des matériaux mythologiques
The myth in the work of Giacomo Leopardi

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Hall, James. "DIVINING THE DIVINE: POP MYTHOLOGY AND ITS WORTH." Master's thesis, Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2010. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0003103.

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Regan, Susan Rae. "Women's essential nature, a classical, communitarian gender mythology." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq25937.pdf.

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O'Brien, Thomas Peter. "The concept of mythology in Jack Hodgins' fiction /." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=63389.

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Johnson, Roger James. "Ronald Reagan and the mythology of American history." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2010. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/2354/.

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The concept of myth has been central to the interpretation of President Ronald Reagan. This is a complex and ambiguous association. Myth is variously defined, referring to fable and falsehood as well as symbolic narratives of memory and identity. It is also variously applied, to Reagan's character, ideology, communication and legacy. Reagan's relationship to American mythology has been incompletely defined, and is in need of a synthesis which shows the connections between its different facets and processes, while identifying the problems of such an approach. Analysing the extensive literature on Reagan, using his public papers and published writings, and based on original research at the Reagan Presidential Library and at Stanford University, this thesis considers the presence and functions of American myth in Reagan's presidency in five distinct ways. Firstly, I look at the mythic narratives of Reagan's life in his biography. Secondly, I define his own perception of American history. Thirdly, I describe his distinctive, but constrained engagements with national commemoration. Fourthly, I explore the politicised historical interpretations of two central events of his presidency, the end of the Cold War, and the Iran/Contra affair. Lastly, I examine how his presidential library works to define his varied meaning in American history and mythology. The thesis concludes by surveying Reagan's meaning in twenty-first century America, and the tension between his national and partisan symbolism. Reagan built a reputation on his successful appeals to American myth, memory and identity and maintains a charged and contested symbolism. This association and this success have become the definitive factor of his image as his own mythology emerges in American national culture.

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Baker, Joseph O. "Sasquatch: Cultural Mythology Meets the Culture of Science." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/488.

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Moore, Emily Olive. "Translating Greek Mythology in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2020. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8764.

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Given its early connection to western science fiction, it is not entirely surprising that contemporary Chinese science fiction (csf) frequently references the "west" in general and Greek mythology in particular. The three works that I analyze in this paper are Xia Jia's "Psychology Game," Gu Shi's "Chimera," and Egoyan Zheng's The Dream Devourer. These three texts utilize Greek mythology in different ways, to different degrees, and with different purposes, and yet they all use Greek mythology to visually disrupt their respective texts. Xia Jia ends "Psychology Game" with a direct Greek-language quotation. Throughout "Chimera," Gu Shi quotes Chinese translations of Greek texts. Finally, in The Dream Devourer, Egoyan Zheng's references to Greek myth are more playful and extensive. Although Zheng names certain significant characters in his novel after figures in Greek mythology, the connections to those figures are rarely explicit and are often twisted or inverted. By analyzing these three texts together we can more clearly see the overarching connection that Greek mythology has to contemporary csf. Although multilingual references are not new to Chinese literature, the Greek references commonly found in csf are likely foreign not only to their Chinese-language audience, but to their Anglophone audience as well. As such, there is a very distinct visual divide between the Chinese-language references and the Greek or Roman script in these texts. Though each script remains clearly discernable, they are connected by the interweaving of the languages and by the text itself, the final result being a literary "cyborg" that unites supposedly binary aspects of "East" and "West." As Donna Haraway claims in her "Cyborg Manifesto," the cyborg represents the rejection of rigid binaries and two-word definitions. She claims, "We are cyborgs. The cyborg is our ontology; it gives us our politics. The cyborg is a condensed image of both imagination and material reality" (50). By combining Greek, Roman, and Chinese scripts these authors simultaneously represent and complicate the dichotomy of "East" and "West," acknowledging how these supposedly distinct cultures have blended.

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Kaye, Simon. "The mythology of democracy : justification, deliberation and participation." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2015. http://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-mythology-of-democracy(f86da1d3-f106-4202-87d6-7787cb900c85).html.

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Contemporary democratic theory is marked by two politically distinctive but epistemologically similar radicalisms: Deliberative and Platonist. Deliberative democrats seek to enhance the legitimacy and value of democratic outcomes by ensuring deeper, more discursive participation so as to approximate rational consensus around the self-evident public interest or to inculcate the ideal of public reasoning among citizens. Platonist democrats, responding to widespread evidence of public ignorance and irrationality, argue that participation should be limited to those who can do so from a position of expertise. What these radical positions have in common is an implied readiness to reject the fundamental democratic principle of minimal political equality for practically all citizens. In so doing, they risk subverting the desirable consequences of the institutional norms of today’s democracies: stability, anti-experimentalism and assumed non-contestability. Democracy’s main virtue – its tendency toward stability and resistance to revolution – is contingent upon the confidence that is placed in it by its citizens, which itself may be contingent upon the universal franchise. This thesis argues that theories of democracy are best understood in terms of their underlying presuppositions as to the scope – and potential scope – of human knowledge. It offers a new justification of democracy, suggesting specific consequentialist grounds while critiquing instrumental and deontic approaches to the problem. The thesis then turns to a consideration of the evidence for widespread public ignorance, and argues that such evidence cannot form a sound basis for Platonist, epistocratic arguments against the universal franchise. Deliberative democracy is similarly problematic, founded upon either the unattainable ideal of political consensus, or the badly-understood concept of ‘public reason’. Formal, demotic deliberation is intrinsically threatening to the democratic principle of political anonymity, and therefore, due to a host of well-documented social-psychological effects, to the universal franchise as well.

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Dixon, Sean. "Folklore and Mythology in Neil Gaiman's American Gods." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/22735.

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This thesis provides a critical analysis of the use of folklore and mythology that exists in Neil Gaiman's award-winning novel, American Gods. I focus on the ways in which American Gods is situated within an intertextual corpus of mythological and mythopoeic writing. In particular, this study analyses Gaiman’s writing by drawing upon Mircea Eliade’s ideas about mythology and Northrop Frye’s archetypal criticism to discuss the emergence of secular myth through fantasy fiction.

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Anderson, Vera. "Numerology as the base of the myth of creation, according to the Mayas, Aztecs, and some contemporary American Indians." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186236.

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This dissertation intends to demonstrate the impact of numerology in every aspect of the lives of ancient precolombian people as well as several contemporary American Indian tribes. For this reason numerology may be viewed as a true science, that is both an esoteric and a philosophical one. Thus, numbers may be looked upon not only as abstract signs, but as all inclusive entities in and of themselves. To the ancients, numerical symbols had an occult connotation that transcended the restrictive boundaries of simple computation. For instance, numerology had an integral role in Maya, Aztec, and some contemporary American Indian religious ceremonies. As an example, the high priests were able to predict future events by making intricate numerological computations. Further still, Maya and Aztec calendars were so accurate that they demonstrated an extraordinary knowledge of astronomical events. In order to accurately study the intricate subject of numerology it was necessary to divide the dissertation in several parts. These parts include a concise discussion of the Maya, the Aztec, and certain contemporary American Indian tribes. A general account of Maya, Aztec, and Contemporary American Indian culture and society was included, using the available data of present day archeological and written documents, in order to accurately describe the philosophy of these people. From an examination of the life and culture of these ancient societies, the basis for their myths of creation and the impact of numerology on those particular myths may be easily ascertained. The conclusion discusses how numerology shaped two great civilizations, that of the Maya and Aztecs, and how these basic esoteric numbers were absorbed and changed, to suit the needs and culture of some present day American Indian tribes.

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Photius, Brown Malcolm Kenneth. "The Narratives of Konon /." München : Saur, 2002. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy051/2002545926.html.

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Rev. version of the editor's thesis: The Diegeseis of Konon (Universität Bern, 1998).
Epitome of Conon's Narrationes (a collection of 50 stories now lost except for 42 lines containing parts of two stories) from Photius' Bibliotheca. Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-368) and indexes.

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Lee, Intack. "Selected myths of China and Korea a comparative study analysis /." access full-text online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 1993. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?9334922.

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Diaz, Herbert Ndango. "A definitive edition and analysis of the Tjakova myth of the Vakavango." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15985.

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Bibliography: pages 364-375.
The field work for this thesis was never a "safe" project, but a very important one it a people's heritage (the Vakavango heritage), which includes memories of generations of migration and therefore some potentially highly informative data, was not to be lost. The project, concerned with the traditions of a people living on both sides of the Kavango river, on the border of Angola and Namibia, began when the Angolan civil war was already in full swing on the northern bank and the liberation struggle was already heating up in Namibia. The first purpose was to produce a definitive version of the most important myth cycle of the Vakavango, the myth in which Tjakova is the chief actor. The second purpose was to subject the myth to analysis as one expression of these peoples' religion. These two purposes are interactive. To decide what must be included and what excluded in a definitive version of the myth is to have already begun analysis.

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Baisden, Gregory Scott. "Recombinant Mythology as answer to the Anti-Life Equation." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3590362.

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The pervasive perspective of Western culture views spirit as enmeshed or entombed in matter, an interpretive frame that drives us to periodic socio-political disintegration and bourgeoning planetary illness because it neither honors flesh as vehicle for spirit nor tends spirit as animating flesh. Rather, our dominant paradigm emphasizes disdaining the body and lamenting the spirit, thereby either indulging the former or discounting it, while either disempowering the latter as incarcerated in flesh or seeking its "liberation" from flesh. This is an Anti-Life Equation denigrating both body and spirit, and playing a fundamental role in humanity's current crises in faith, politics, and sustainability.

The Myth of Orpheus has traditionally been interpreted as exemplifying this emphasis by portraying him as a failure both of body because attached to his mortal lover and of spirit because unable to refrain from dooming her to eternity amongst the shades of Hades. In this frame, the mythic master of the lyre becomes a proponent of a transcendentalist imperative to free spirit from carnal prison. But what if Orpheus was not a failure – not because he failed in bringing Eurydice's spirit shade back to the day world, but because he succeeded in relinquishing his love from her carnal form and from his attachments to and projections upon her?

From this perspective, that of a Recombinant Mythology, we may reclaim our foundational stories from the anti-life perspectives and interpretations that color them. Thus we may recognize Orpheus as the very image of perceiving, acknowledging, and embracing the spiral gift of life, in which spirit enters body as a journey of experience for the tempering of soul, for transforming or transmuting phenomenal, incarnate being, rather than as a trap of separation, dislocation, and isolation from divinity.

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Llinares, Dario Alexis. "Idealised masculinity and the cultural mythology of the astronaut." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.511132.

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Strudwick, Laura M. "Prismatic perception an emerging mythology of the millennial mind." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3617628.

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The postmodern worldview wanes as the millennium turns and the Millennial Generation matures; at the same time, we rapidly launch into the digital age. Information technology is developing into a changeable, networked system of devices and interfaces that profoundly shapes our professional, intellectual, and social lives. Online reading and navigation influence epistemology and perception; similarly, engagement with ergodic texts, i. e., print and film texts that require significant effort to traverse, results in enhanced cognition. Prismatic perception is a neologism that describes an emerging mythology of the mind in the information age. This fantasy of omniscient perception is rooted in images of potentiality networked with connecting strands that construct an image of a centerless web, similar to Indra's Net and the World Wide Web.

Literary theory draws on both art and philosophy and therefore directly reflects an era's defining characteristics. Deconstruction as described by Jacques Derrida serves as a precursor to hypertext theory; these two theories work collaboratively to delineate this emerging era. Reader response theory emphasizes the reader's role and correlates with the expanding participation and power of readers, writers, and creators in digital formats. Recombinant art, i. e., collaged and remixed creations that play and interact with other artists' previous works, proliferates as the culture of free and open sharing rises.

This dissertation illustrates the concept of prismatic perception with mythological symbols and images of infinity drawn from literature and film, particularly the works of Jorge Luis Borges, the Chinese classic I Ching, Mark Z. Danielewski's novel House of Leaves, and Christopher Nolan's films Memento and Inception. This work examines current issues concerning social aspects of technology, particularly recent controversies over information access. Postmodernism was characterized by the prefixes post- and de-; the prefixes that best suit the emerging era are meta- and re- as people generate, investigate, contemplate, rework, and participate in the vast accumulation of connecting and interacting information and ideas.

Keywords: Information society; information technology—social aspects—forecasting; technology—social aspects; computers and civilization; Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986; deconstruction; reader-response criticism.

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Dunn, Jonathan. "Unfathomable comedy : mythology and the archaic in Botho Strauss." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.481215.

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Ballantyne, Jean C. "The end of patriarchy| Manifesto for a new mythology." Thesis, Saybrook University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3720926.

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In this theoretical dissertation, the author identifies social problems that arise from patriarchy and that are attributed to what is called gender culture, which exists as a consequence of the gender polarization required for patriarchy. The dissertation demonstrates how beliefs and attitudes that emanate from gender culture, and are transmitted through patriarchal mythology, provide a template that shapes maladaptive decision-making in ways that warp the relational capacity of individuals and reinforce and perpetuate social injustice. Using examples from her own and others’ research investigating egalitarianism in the parenting and relationship dynamics of heterosexual couples, the author discuses how, despite the potential of egalitarianism in heterosexual relationships to subvert the patriarchal paradigm, unrecognized internalized patriarchal mythology acts as a force to pull egalitarian-minded couples back into traditional marital structures. Drawing on her own research (Ballantyne, 2004) exploring the effect of the romantic myth on women in same sex intimate partner relationships, and the realization of egalitarianism as exemplified by a couple in her research (Ballantyne, 2011), the author discusses the role of outcasts and misfits as way showers, who, as a result of their rejection from or inability to conform to the prevailing mythology of mainstream norms, have the potential to create alternatives that benefit society at large. Finally, the dissertation provides evidence of emerging mythology that is already visible, offers suggestions for imagery and storylines to sow into our culture, and proposes a framework for a new mythology that is requisite to the cultivation of egalitarian imagery in the internal psychological landscape of the collective. Cultivating a new mythology will support what the author believes is the evolutionary movement away from systems of oppression and towards democracy, not only for the sake of gender justice, but for the sake of earth justice and peace as well.

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Hargrave, Rachel Irene. "Cartoon Saloon as Mythopoeic: Reimagining Irish Mythology through Animation." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/104103.

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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 different time periods and spaces to create truly Irish animated films. Each film explores the tension between folklore and Christianity, urban and rural community, and the challenges of coming of age in various ways through the lens of Irish folklore. By communicating these themes in animated films, Cartoon Saloon centers indigenous animation work in a country that has lacked an indigenous industry and uses the flexibility of 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 centuries through their dedication to preserving and exploring Irish mythology, art, history, and language via an emergence of an indigenous Irish animation industry.
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Cartoon Saloon, an Irish animation studio based in Co. Kilkenny, Ireland, has released a trio of films centered on Irish folklore. These films explore Irish history, mythology, and tradition through several time periods and explore themes of liminality and coming of age. Secret of Kells, the first film, explores the Abbey of Kells and the creation of the Book of Kells through the eyes of Brandon, a young monk learning to find his place in the Abbey. He encounters a fairy girl and learns that there is more to his world than the Abbot had taught him. The second film, Song of the Sea, is set in modern times and tells the story of Ben's adventure to save his sister, who is half-selkie. The final film, Wolfwalkers, explores Kilkenny during English occupation through the adventures of Robyn, a young English girl who is turned into a wolfwalker and learns about the magic present in the Irish countryside. Each film explores the tension between folklore and Christianity, urban and rural community, and the challenges of coming of age in various ways through the lens of Irish folklore. 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 centuries through their dedication to preserving and exploring Irish mythology, art, history, and language via an emergence of an indigenous Irish animation industry.

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Zajko, Vanda. "Women's resistance to sex and marriage in Greek mythology." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359777.

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Bielecki, Anton Gallegos. "The found footage narrative : reflexive mythology of survivor memory." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-found-footage-narrative-reflexive-mythology-of-survivor-memory(808152e8-26cb-49c6-881f-b59ab64285d8).html.

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In 2014, as the number of survivors dwindles, the representation of their memory and testimony after they have gone becomes increasingly important. Although it is critical to discuss the historical facts of the atrocities of World War II, those facts often do not reach the personal experiences of many survivors, who can only express many of the details of their experiences through an expression of their memories through testimony. One such testimony is that of Wanda Bielecka, a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. This practice-based research (consisting of a film and accompanying thesis) explores her memories as they are expressed through her own testimony, and the testimony of her testimony of eleven members of her family. The practice element of the PhD consists of a 73-minute film called Wanda. Wanda is a found footage narrative, a new form of film developed to answer the following research question: how is survivor experience represented in the collective memory of a survivor’s family, and how can the form of the found footage narrative be used as a way of understanding the construction of that memory? This research will explore the collective memory of the Bielecka family around the events of Wanda’s life during World War II from her incarceration in Auschwitz to her eventual liberation and journey to Paris. This collective memory will be explored as a mythology around Wanda’s experience. The film itself will then reflexively reveal its’ own place in the construction of that mythology. A formal conception of the dialectical image is fundamental to the film’s form. This form has been developed through research into essayistic modes in literature and film. It will be shown that the found footage narrative is a form of film that can be used to research, not just the collective memory around Wanda’s experience, but also other instances of collective memory.

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Harrelson, Jeremiah James. "The miracle narratives in Luke allusions to classical mythology? /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Dragneva, D. V. "Conceptions of decay in Czech and Bulgarian national mythology." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2006. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1445425/.

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Degeneration is an explanatory instrument that helps disperse and sustain fear.1 Nineteenth-century national mythopoeia, the Czech and Bulgarian included. was focused on the creation of a sense of national belonging in other words, it had to posit mythologies of generation. The idea that something needs to be created and preserved as a defence against others, for example other nations. however, suggests an immanent threat that it could be or had been subjected to infection, decay - or death. In this thesis I will focus on the employment of ideas of degeneration in the generation of the new myth of bclonyiiis t the Czech or Bulgarian nation. Notions of generation are dependent on notions of femininity, the conception, birth and preservation of the offspring my argument is that femininity has always played the major role for generation and for degeneration, from the Book of Genesis (which provides a myth not only of generation but also of degeneration, fall and decay) onwards and that this had a profound impact on National Revivals.

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Edwards, Robert. "Mythology, ideology and the contemporary American short story cycle." Thesis, University of Kent, 2016. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/55957/.

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The present study proposes that there is an intrinsic relationship between the contemporary American short story cycle and the myth and ideology of the United States. I argue that the contemporary form of the story cycle has become the genre of choice for certain authors whose work explicitly challenges the dominant ideological discourses of Euroamerica and its underpinning mythologies. The five authors and the texts I discuss are Tim O’Brien and The Things They Carried, Julia Alvarez and How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Gerald Vizenor and Landfill Meditation, Sherman Alexie and Ten Little Indians, and Thomas King and Green Grass, Running Water. In the thesis I address the interrelationship between ideology and mythology and this is the foundation for my examination of the way that these five disparate writers each uses the story cycle in his or her own distinctive way to challenge a dominant ideology and the mythology that underpins it.

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Petrilli, Aurore. "La lignée monstrueuse de Phorkys et Keto : étude mythologique et iconographique." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040070.

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Depuis la fin de l’Antiquité, les mythes liés aux religions polythéistes ont peu à peu été relégués au domaine du folklore, bien que la mémoire des grands mythes soit restée vivace dans notre culture. Mais pour comprendre les religions et les sociétés anciennes, il est impératif de revenir aux mythes. De nombreux ouvrages, parfois de vulgarisation, sont consacrés à ce sujet. Cependant, les études contemporaines, suivant en cela la voie déjà tracée par les Anciens, ne se concentrent presque exclusivement que sur la vie des héros grecs. Contrairement à cette tendance générale, notre étude, elle, porte sur le destin de ces oubliés que sont les êtres fabuleux qui peuplent les récits mythologiques et sans qui la renommée des héros mythiques serait amoindrie. La plupart de ces redoutables créatures sont issues de la même lignée dont Phorkys et Kétô sont les lointains aïeux. Parmi leur abondante descendance, nous avons choisi d’étudier ceux que l’on qualifie couramment de monstres. Nous avons procédé à une sélection parmi tous ces membres afin de pouvoir dégager un thème qui soit commun à tous. Nous nous intéresserons exclusivement aux créatures uniques, monstrueuses de naissance et à la morphologie fabuleuse telles que l’Hydre ou Cerbère. A travers un travail d’exploration à la fois littéraire et iconographique, nous tentons de retracer l’histoire des traditions concernant les membres de cette lignée. Des comparaisons avec des mythologies étrangères viennent parfois apporter un complément d’information sur la question. Dans cette entreprise nous devrons considérer des bornes chronologiques et géographiques relativement vastes. En effet, la période s’étendra du IXème ou VIIIème siècle avant J.-C. jusqu’au IIIème siècle après J.-C. Quant au champ géographique, il recouvrira toute la Grèce continentale et insulaire, ainsi que l’Asie Mineure et la Grande Grèce
Since the end of Antiquity the myths which were related to polytheist religions have gradually been pushed aside towards the grounds of lore, although our culture keeps quite vivid the memory of great myths. Nevertheless, in order to be able to understand both ancient religions and societies, turning back to myths is an absolute necessity. Numerous works, some of which vulgarise, are devoted to the subject. However, contemporary studies - thus following the ways of the ancient themselves – mainly dwell on the lives of Greek heroes. As opposed to this general tendency, our study will be dealing with those forgotten creatures, beings of fantasy that are so often encountered in mythological tales and without whom the fame of these mythic heroes would be lessened. Most of these fearful creatures are issued from Phorkys and Keto’s long lineage. Among their numerous offsprings, we have chosen to study those generally known as “monsters”. We have set up a selection among these monsters in order to underline common characteristics. Thus, we intend to consider only creatures that are unique, monstrous by birth, having fabulous morphologies, such as for instance the Hydra and Cerberos. Based on both literary and iconographic sources we will attempt to draw a history of the traditions linked to these lineage members. Some more information on the topic will at times be provided by a few comparisons with foreign mythologies. The geographical and chronological boundaries of our study have to be quite large. The period will span from the 9th or 8th centuries BC up to the 3rd century AD. As for geography, the whole of Greece, both continental and insular, is concerned, as well as Asia Minor and Magna Graecia

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Barry, Thomas J. "The rock star as contemporary cowboy : film mythology and ideology." Diss., Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/212.

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Kelly, Ann Therese. "Contemporary truths through creation-centered mythology: a visual thought process /." Online version of thesis, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11292.

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Zha, Yu 1970. "The mythology of Hero : a study of Chinese national cinema." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79987.

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As the twentieth century ended with globalization and commercialization, popular culture begins to challenge the dominance of national culture. The Chinese intellectual community tries to defend national culture against the incoming global culture and local cultures. The conflicts between localism and nationalism, and also between globalism and nationalism, are clearly demonstrated in the Hero phenomenon, which basically concerns the unanimous disparagement on director Zhang Yimou's debut martial arts film Hero within the Chinese critics' circle. Through a discursive analysis of the phenomenon, we can see how the conflicts between modernism and postmodernism, between elitism and commercialism shape the landscape of contemporary Chinese culture. In this article, I first seek to understand how modernism evolved into nationalism in China during the last century and what role the intelligentsia played in the process of such evolvement. I further seek to understand why the intellectual community has distaste for popular culture and commercialism. Other research on this topic has linked nationalism to national culture, and localism and globalism to popular culture.

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Jolle, Jonas. "The uses and function of mythology in Goethe's Early hymns." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.297534.

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Gallagher, Jasmine Mary. "Pakeha poetics : a socio-historical study of pakeha landscape mythology." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Sociology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10058.

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Many Pakeha beliefs are embodied in the value and meanings they have ascribed to the New Zealand landscape. These mythologies of physical space have functioned to help Pakeha construct a collective identity and to make sense of their place in the world. Painting the landscape in the cultural imagination in a number of diverse ways, from Arcadia to harsh wasteland, has functioned to help justify and explain the place of Pakeha in Maori homeland: imagining New Zealand as home meant that these myths fostered a feeling of belonging. Consequently, cultural criticism has revealed the hypocritical, sentimental and destructive nature of such myths, particularly with regards to the ongoing legacy of colonialism. However, the deconstruction of myth cannot provide a foundation for future cultural criticism to engage with. The cynicism fostered by demolishing collective mythologies requires a new form of critique. This means that a return to sincere belief is called for in the post-secular moment: a form of atheistic belief in the most radically creative aspects of Pakeha landscape mythology is thus crucial to the critique of its most totalitarian and destructive ones.

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Aloè, Carla. "The New World mythology in Italian epic poetry, 1492-1650." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7013/.

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My thesis explores the construction of the New World mythology as it appears in early modern Italian epic poems. It focuses on how Italian writers engage with and contribute to this process of myth-creation; how the newly created mythology relates to the political, social and cultural context of the time; and investigates extent to which it was affected by the personal agendas of the poets. By analysing three New World myths (Brazilian Amazons, Patagonian giants and Canadian pygmies), it provides insights into the perception that Italians had of the newly discovered lands in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, as well as providing a greater understanding of the role that early modern Italy had in the ‘invention’ of the Americas. Italian epic poets domesticated New World myths for their own purposes, using written, visual and material sources as an anchor for their agendas. The study of these myths changes, in some cases completely, our reading of the poems. New World myths are at once an exercise in ekphrasis of the maps, cartouches, engravings and collectible objects they derived from, and a record of the impact the Americas had on the early modern Italians.

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Johnson, Sean Aram. "Fog on the Barrow Downs: Celtic Roots of Tolkien's Mythology." Thesis, Boston College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1375.

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Thesis advisor: Philip O'Leary
This paper takes the opportunity to examine some of the lesser known roots the fictional world, Middle Earth, and its accompanying mythology, both created by J.R.R. Tolkien. It is concerned with tracing the elements of Celtic myth and legend that appear to have influenced Tolkien’s work. While he is ambiguous on the subject – flatly denying Celtic influences in one letter, while stating that his stories of Elves are rather Celtic – consulting the text yields a world rife with Celtic underpinnings. This paper makes no claims that such Celtic elements are the only myths Tolkien borrowed from, but attempts to give a compelling case that they some of the elements Tolkien used when creating Middle Earth and, consequently, are worthy of being introduced into the discussion of Tolkien’s extraordinary mythology
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2010
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: English Honors Program
Discipline: English

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Schwabenland, Christina. "Creation mythology in voluntary organisations in the UK and India." Thesis, University of East London, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.532483.

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This is the report of a research study of the 'founding stories' of 30 voluntary organisations, 15 in the UK and 15 in India, as told by the chief executives. , suggest that an analysis of these stories may prove fruitful in deepening our understanding of the voluntary sector and of the ways in which leadership is understood within it. The study explores three propositions; 1) that these founding stories can be regarded as analogous to creation mythology in the functions they fulfil for the organisation, 2) that chief executives make use of these stories as a heuristic in sensemaking, and 3) that the symbolic meanings latent within the stories may be revelatory of differing constructions of the meaning of society and of social change in the two cultures. I have drawn on hermeneutics for developing an interpretive methodology. Two chapters discuss the theoretical background for the study, concentrating on the themes of mythology and hermeneutics. The study includes a review of the literature on storytelling in an organisational context and of the voluntary sectors in the UK and in India and concludes with a suggestion that one meaning of the metaphor of the voluntary sector may be to provide a space for the construction of contemporary understandings of ethical behaviour.

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Hütwohl, Dannu. "The Birth of Sacrifice: Ritualized Deities in Eastern Mediterranean Mythology." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1606754016335887.

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