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Metaphor, Myth, and Symbol in the Grain of Time

2023
Abstract This chapter begins by analyzing metaphoric and spatialized conceptualizations of time in theories of human social evolution, from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century onwards. The situatedness in European imperial conquest of the concept of social progress, as well as the denial of coevalness to non-Western peoples,
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Portuguese Myths and Time

Diogenes, 1995
By Portuguese myths we mean several kinds of narratives, all of which actualize fundamental aspects of the Portuguese national imagination. Some are foundation narratives (Sâo Mamede, Ourique); others are historical facts that were sung so often over the years by Portuguese and foreign poets that they came to signify basic schemes ...
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Time to demolish the myths surrounding sexuality

Nursing Older People, 2001
The Victorians knew a thing or two about building bridges, railways and tunnels and could knock up grand and imposing buildings at the drop of a top hat. But while their engineering and construction skills helped drive on the modern age, when it came to formulating a progressive attitude towards sex they were clueless.
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Time in Therapeutic Relationships: Myths and Realities

Southern Medical Journal, 1986
Both physicians and patients hold myths about the uses and value of time in therapeutic relationships. The realities about time differ. A review of studies of patient compliance and satisfaction with health care indicated that the amount of time spent with patients was not as important as the quality or content of time.
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Time's up on testosterone myths

New Scientist, 2019
As the real story about the hormone emerges from the labs, outdated ideas about its effects on masculinity sell everyone short.
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KELOIDS: TIME TO DISPEL THE MYTHS?

Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, 1999
E P, Fong, L T, Chye, W T, Tan
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Heroic Myths for Heroic Times

Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, 1988
Latin America is a continent of heroes. Plazas, boulevards, cities, provinces bear the name of the revered; their stern visages peer at us from stamps, currency, the school house wall, as well as innumerable resplendant statues. Mexico is no exception to this general tendency, possessing a pantheon of the adored: Hidalgo, Morelos, Juarez, Zapata ...
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The Mothers in Faust. The Myth of Time and Creativity.

MLN, 1969
Henry Hatfield, Harold Jantz
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A Dance to the Music of Time: Myth

1991
‘Myth’ is the narrator’s term for stories told and retold with imagination, to oneself and to like-minded friends. He explains that Moreland’s aunt has a prominent place in his ‘personal mythology’, and that General Conyers has his place in Jenkins’s ‘family myth’.48 The more imaginative the telling, the more mythical the stories become; but retelling ...
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Time Travel, Myth and Prophecy as Social Remediation in Continuum, Fringe and The X-Files

Film International, 2020
Kenneth E Hall
exaly