Este estudio pretende dar a conocer un texto inédito de Miguel de Unamuno en el que se manifiesta la presencia de un aspecto del mito quijotesco, el de la lectura compulsiva. Además, se intenta ...establecer una posible fecha de escritura del mismo, de manera tal que, a partir de nuestra investigación, se puede pensar en una correspondencia con Amor y pedagogía (1902), ya que en ambos textos se encuentra presente el mito en una de sus variantes: la del erudito o pedante quijotesco. De esta manera, el mito creado por Cervantes resulta la clave del proceso creativo de este texto que ha permanecido oculto.
Methodological problems of the analysis of the phenomenon of “cancellation culture” are investigated. It is stated that “cancellation” was characteristic of all stages of history, but the actual ...“cancellation culture” could only arise with the development of civil society and mass media. It is proved that the concept of “corporate cancellation” is more acceptable for states of a transit of democracy type of development, when the main actors of the “cancellation” of an individual, social group or views (scientific, religious, etc.) are political elites. In order to develop the proposed theoretical approach, the extensive material of the “Myth of 922” case was analyzed. The following items were recorded: “cancellation” in the mass media of the academic version of the events of 922; cardinal changes in the historiographical field; intercorporate interaction of political elites and academic structures, which eventually led to the official celebration of the anniversary of the “1100th anniversary of the adoption of Islam by Volga Bulgaria”; complex strategies of behavior of individual researchers who tried to use the “weaknesses” of the “myth of 922” to accumulate their own symbolic capital, but very rarely turned to the discourse of the “cancellation culture”. The theoretical outlines of “corporate cancellation” proposed in the article can be useful for a better understanding of the known facts of “cancellation” in the Soviet and contemporary Russian history.
This paper analyses the juvenile career of Julie Andrews who was a child performer of considerable note in her native Britain during the immediate post-war period. Possessed of a remarkably developed ...singing voice, Andrews was feted as a musical child prodigy, and she performed widely in variety and radio as 'Britain's youngest singing star'. In an era of profound disruption, Andrews' popular image as national wunderkind served - as the myth of the child star so often it does - as a resonant cultural fiction for the articulation of deeply felt ideological concerns and the fantastic reconciliation of social and emotional anxieties.
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The aim of the present article is to provide a comparative analysis between two important works of German and Hungarian literature on the background of the theory of Carl Gustav Jung’s ...theory of archetypes. Both works (the novel
Demian
by Hermann Hesse and the drama
Erstwhile Solace
Ősvigasztalás
by Áron Tamási) approach the theme of the search for identity as well as for the absolute and the divinity, with the focus on the archetypes of the collective unconscious. Motifs such as androgyny, shadow or dream, the issue of polarity and unity form common points of contact between the two analysed literary works.
Drawing mainly on cultural theories, this article probed the ‘myth’ in the news (international) using a combined quantitative and qualitative approach for investigation with a goal of revealing ...common characteristics of articles that revolve around a mythical image of a foreign culture, or a national cultural stereotype. Three major newspapers from three different regions of the world, the United States, United Kingdom, and Japan, were content analyzed and found that articles that pivot on well-known foreign cultural stereotypes invoke one of three types of theme/content: a well-known point of ancient history, a media myth built over decades, or a ‘lived’ experience of the audience. In essence, articles that utilize foreign myth are characterized by the technique of ‘historicizing’ the subject matter. They portray the culture as being embedded in history, tradition, and inertia indicating to readers that the foreign country – and collectively the world outside – has remained the same and stagnant culturally in the process stereotyping foreign societies as the Other. This article discusses the intersection of myth and national cultural stereotypes, using the concept, ‘the culture peg’ as a bridging notion that allows for a measure of quantitative method of investigation.
The TV show Supernatural (2005-2020) features itinerant brothers Sam and Dean Winchester battling pagan gods from ancient Greco-Roman mythology who pose a threat to the present-day American way of ...life. The show utilizes two key concepts to define perils to American culture and values: the frontier myth and the myth of American exceptionalism. In a remote town in Alaska (i.e., the frontier), the brothers encounter the Roman goddess Fortuna, who reveals to the Winchesters how they can protect America. Fortuna's appearance signifies a shift in how the show's heroes, Sam and Dean, see themselves: they are forced to experience the despair everyday Americans feel when their luck runs out. A critical analysis of several key episodes will demonstrate that as the series advances, the focus on the brothers' erasure of pagan threats to America is replaced by a critique of monotheistic religion, a reexamination of the myth of American exceptionalism, and social commentary on the problems with a culture based on consumerism.
The relevance of the topic is determined by the interest of modern humanities to the myth-making aspects of the Soviet culture, including the interpretation of Decembrism. The purpose of the article ...is to review the main stages and patterns of the literary realization of Decembrism from the beginning of the Soviet era to the moment of the final separation of the two versions of the Decembrism myth (official and oppositional).
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