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"Hispania, la leyenda": The Myth of Viriatus’ Struggle Transfigured for Television

Communication & Society, 1970
“Hispania, la leyenda” is the first Spanish attempt to represent on screen the Roman occupation of the Iberian Peninsula and the resistance led by Viriatus.
Elena Cueto-Asín, David R. George
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Sacred to the Memory: Relicization and the Cataloging of Franklin Expedition Objects in Museums

Museum Anthropology, Volume 48, Issue 2, Fall 2025.
ABSTRACT Between 1818 and 1845, the British Navy sent expeditions to Inuit Nunangat (Canadian Arctic) in search of a passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. In 1845, the Franklin Expedition, consisting of 129 officers, crew, and marines, ended in disaster with all 129 lives lost.
Ashley Smith
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Provincialising Early Feminism: A View from the Middle East

Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 591-605, July 2025.
Abstract ‘Provincializing Europe’, derived from Dipesh Chakrabarty's work of that name, argued that an imagined ‘Europe’ was a founding myth for modernity. While not mentioning feminism, this analysis is a valuable starting point for tracing the path of the term ‘féminism’ from France to Britain to the Ottoman Empire and from the USA to the Arab world –
Ruth Roded
wiley   +1 more source

Why “Real men don't speak French”: Deconstructing cultural attitudes to a language by historicizing their discursive formations

The Modern Language Journal, Volume 109, Issue 2, Page 389-406, Summer 2025.
Abstract Guided by Foucault's concept of “discursive formations,” the study reported here draws on primary archival and secondary source material to examine how French has been discursively shaped in England and in relation to English. Unpacking sociohistorical constructions of sameness–difference offers a productive frame to explore ideological ...
Simon Coffey
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The image of Napoleon in film adaptations of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment: Versions by Josef von Sternberg, Georges Lampin, Joseph Sargent, and Vladimir Mirzoyev

The Art and Science of Television
This article presents a pioneering study of the image of Napoleon I in film adaptations of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment. The analysis focuses on four adaptations selected for their vivid, unique, and representative portrayals of the ...
N. Podosokorsky
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Simón Rodríguez and the sentimental roots of social republicanism

American Journal of Political Science, Volume 69, Issue 2, Page 471-482, April 2025.
Abstract In this article, I claim that Simón Rodríguez, a 19th‐century Venezuelan thinker, used and reconfigured Jean‐Jacques Rousseau's understanding of amour‐propre to construct a new political foundation for Latin America. He sought to channel it and other sentiments toward productive ends with a social education. In doing so, Rodríguez departs from
Alejandro Castrillón
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The Place of the Napoleonic Myth in The Red and the Black

, 1971
The problem contained in this study was Stendhal's use of the Napoleonic myth in his novel The Red and the Black. This study dealt primarily with Stendhal's purpose in using the myth as a basis for his novel and with the extent to which the principal ...
Kappel, Mary
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“Charge of the Light Brigade”, “Thin Red Line” and “Balaklava”: The Crimean Campaign of 1853–1856 as the First Information War in World History and the Role of the Don Cossacks in the Battles in the Crimea and the Azov Sea

Общество философия история культура
The Crimean (Eastern) War was not only the first major military conflict after the Napoleonic Wars, but also a fundamentally new phenomenon in the field of communication and public opinion formation.
Elena V. Veretennikova, I. V. Leusenko, Georgy A. Smorkalov   +2 more
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Myth, History, and Witnessing in Marceline Desbordes-Valmore's Caribbean Poetics

, 2007
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore was a witness of the upheavals of the Revolutionary Caribbean in 1802. The colonial novella Sarah indirectly represents the Napoleonic reestablishment of slavery in Guadeloupe through a plot centered on confusion over who is ...
D. Jenson
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Ei fu... il codice (anche). La costruzione di un mito attraverso le immagini

, 2021
Si intende ragionare intorno alla genesi, allo spirito, ai contenuti e alla fortuna (se non al mito) del codice civile del 1804 alla luce delle rappresentazioni dello stesso coeve e successive all’età napoleonica.This study intends to analyse the ...
Stefano Solimano
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