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Violence, Innocence and Redemption in Irvine Welsh’s Chemical Mythos
Scottish author Irvine Welsh has crafted an internally cohesive cosmology, grounded in mapping a somewhat loosely defined “chemical generation” that helped spearhead a personal brand of anti-Thatcherite counterculture (with an especially heavy focus on ...
ZAMFIRESCU ANDREI-CĂLIN
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The Divine Appearance 0f Härn: Determining the Identity of a Bronze Age Metal Hoard
This article aims to investigate the mysterious divinity Härn on the basis of a Bronze Age metal hoard from Härnevi in Uppland. The premise is that this hoard rep- resents a cultural category that reflects a divine concept that must be investigated in ...
Magdalena Forsgren
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Towards the Reconstruction of the Name and Image of a Great God in the Ancient Armenian Tradition [PDF]
Pre-Christian gods of Armenians, known from the works of ancient Greek and Armenian authors, appear under Iranian and Greek names. But same as other peoples, Armenians had to have their own gods with original names in the earliest times of their history.
Armen Ye. Petrosyan
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I am the physician of lions and leopards [PDF]
Geting help from mythology and folk tales is useful way to correct classical texts problems. This method was used especially in the correction of shahnameh poems.
vahid rooyani
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Hyde’s Deformity: The Literary Myth of the Fallen Protohuman
Drawing from a variety of examples in world literature, this paper exposits a pervasive, diachronic literary motif in which an early human—the mythic protohuman—exists superior to contemporary humans, whose greatness is reflected in physical stature and ...
William M. Webb
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ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to better understand juror decision‐making in a less typical rape trial scenario where even prior acquaintance is disputed. Adopting an improved mock trial paradigm including a video‐recorded recreation of a genuine rape allegation and jury‐group deliberation, 156 jury‐eligible participants took part in 1 of 13 ...
Dominic Willmott, Rosie Woodhams
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Waiting for a Release: The Expectation in Virtual Gaming Communities
ABSTRACT This study examines how virtual gaming communities influence and maintain player expectations before, during, and after a game's release. A mixed‐methods study was conducted, comprising a netnography followed by an experiment. First, a netnographic study was conducted over 12 months, tracking communities to understand player behavior and ...
Lucas Lopes Ferreira de Souza +4 more
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Un'arma da gioco. Furio Jesi mitologo = A weapon to play. Furio Jesi mythologist
This paper intends to investigate the approach to the myth and mythology of Furio Jesi (1941-1980) in the context of the aesthetic and political theories of the twentieth century (Károly Kerény, Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin, up to Jean-
Fabio Moliterni
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The Comparative Recognition for religious phenomenology and hermeneutics of Mircea Eliadeh in the mysticism of Tamhidat-e of Ayn al-Quzat Hamadani [PDF]
Mircea Eliadeh, in the role of a phenomenologist and mythologist of religious scholars, emphasizes on the religious-historical interpretation of hermeneutics as the best way to discover the meanings and interpretation of hidden messages of mythology ...
Fatemeh Rafatkhah +3 more
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Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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