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Old Norse Heimr ʻWorldʼ and its Toponymic Derivatives in the Poetic Edda
Вопросы ономастикиThe article examines the mythopoetic concept of the ‘world’ (Old Norse heimr) and its derivatives — toponyms with the suffix -heimr in the Poetic Edda.
Tatyana V. Toporova
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The Artistic Universe of Chingiz Aytmatov: From Bilinguality to Transculture
Polylinguality and Transcultural PracticesThe study analyzes the prose of Ch.T. Aitmatov, created in Russian, starting with the stories “Farewell, Gyulsary!”, “The White Steamer”, “The Piebald Dog Running by the Edge of the Sea” and ending with his “epic” novel, reveals the artistic evolution of
Alfiya I. Smirnova
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Educational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 5, Page 936-961, October 2025.Abstract In contemporary contexts of digitalization, proliferating media, and generative AI, various “life hacks” are regularly recommended to disconnect and resist distraction, ranging from meditation to getting back to nature to unplugging. This paper traces contemporary concerns over “the attention crisis” into a longer signature — the frequently ...
Antti Saari, Bernadette M. Baker
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Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 36, Issue 1, Spring 2025.AbstractWithin recent years, an increasing number of people and researchers in the Global North have become interested in psychedelic substances and their therapeutic application. While much of the current media attention and research effort mainly concentrate on the therapeutic potential and actions of the individual's acute psychedelic experience ...
Sidsel Marie
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Weathering the storm: Ben Enwonwu’s Biafrascapes and the crisis in the Nigerian postcolony [PDF]
, 2018 This article appraises Ben Enwonwu’s contribution to postcolonial modernism in Nigeria. To do so, it analyses his artistic responses to the political crisis that resulted in the Nigeria-Biafra war (1967–70).
Lecznar, Matthew
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‘All you Need is Love’: Some Thoughts on the Structure, Texture, and Meaning of the Brothers Song as well as on Its Relation to the Kypris Song (P. Sapph. Obbink) [PDF]
, 2016 The new Brothers Song is not a personal, biographical, and intimate expression of family matters but functions rather with a public dimension. As an originally public and choral performance it communalizes erotic experiences and acts out discourses of ...
Bierl, Anton
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The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 2, Page 129-143, March 2025.Abstract The human imagination is studied widely across both the sciences and the humanities, yet there is a lack of conceptual clarity for interdisciplinary engagement. This article surveys a sample of recent scientific research on the imagination, focusing on creativity and storytelling, to demonstrate how an understanding of the biocultural ...
Victoria Lorrimar
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On the concept of mythopoetic thinking in the Semiotics of Tartu-Moscow School [PDF]
, 2012 The notion of myth has remarkable place in the analysis of culture of TM School. The present paper discusses mythopoetic modelling from the perspective of the cognitive, social and historical aspects, regarding culture and consciousness as isomorphic ...
Niitra, Mari, Paulus, Ave
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Chronotopes of exile and loss in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's Zoilomastix (c. 1626)☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 60-80, February 2025.Abstract This essay explores the relationship between an early modern exile and his native environment, as depicted in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's unfinished natural history Zoilomastix. Writing by turns in Latin, Spanish and Gaelic from the safety of the Habsburg court, O'Sullivan Beare marshalled Ciceronian rhetoric and Plinian wonder to argue for the ...
Kevin Gerard Tracey
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Erbenovy balady jako odraz hylozoistické podstaty romantického mytopoetismu // Karel Jaromír Erben’s Ballads as a Reflection of the Hylozoistic Nature of Romantic Mythopoetics [PDF]
Slovo a Smysl, 2015 The hylozoistic idea of matter as the visible side of everything there is attractive for the Romanticism’s mythopoetic concept of animated and dynamic nature of the universe and man as its projection.
Žoržeta Čolakova
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