Search results for "myth"

A comparison of statistical methods and multi-criteria decision making to map flood hazard susceptibility in Northern Iran

2018

In north of Iran, flood is one of the most important natural hazards that annually inflict great economic damages on humankind infrastructures and natural ecosystems. The Kiasar watershed is known as one of the critical areas in north of Iran, due to numerous floods and waste of water and soil resources, as well as related economic and ecological losses. However, a comprehensive and systematic research to identify flood-prone areas, which may help to establish management and conservation measures, has not been carried out yet. Therefore, this study tested four methods: evidential belief function (EBF), frequency ratio (FR), Technique for Order Preference by Similarity To ideal Solution (TOP…

Prefazione

2018

Prefazione al Volume "Kore, la ragazza ineffabile"

Introduction to Korean Spirituality

2019

This work was supported by the Seed Program for Korean Studies under the auspices of the Republic of Korea Ministry of Education and the Korean Studies Promotion Service of the Academy of Korean Studies.

Historia i mitologia Kresów Wschodnich Rzeczypospolitej

2020

Celem artykułu jest ukazanie dorobku historiograficznego na temat Kresów Wschodnich Rzeczypospolitej na przestrzeni ostatnich trzydziestu lat, kiedy po usunięciu cenzury wielu badaczy w polskich środowiskach akademickich oraz wielu literatów, publicystów, dokumentalistów, autorów wspomnień i pamiętników, poczęło publikować ważne prace naukowe, popularnonaukowe i publicystyczne. W artykule przedstawiony jest dorobek najwybitniejszych i najpłodniejszych badaczy Kresów. Autor poddaje analizie najważniejsze wypowiedzi i dzieła m.in. prof. Jacka Kolbuszewskiego, Bolesława Hadaczka, Janusza Tazbira, Jerzego Janickiego, Witolda Szolgini, Tadeusza Olszańskiego, Romana Aftanazego, Daniela Beauvois o…

Perdersi. Note sul Labirinto

2022

The paper is inspired by a conversation of its author with Sandro Man- cini. Through a series of self-biographical notes, it tries to examine the topological gure of the labyrinth in some of its main mythical- symbolic, mathematical and conceptual articulations. Starting from a famous essay by Italo Calvino, i.e. La s da al labirinto, it seeks in par- ticular to discuss the works of Pierre Rosenstiehl, mathematician and philosopher to whom we owe some of the most re ned analyses on the subject of labyrinth. In the conclusions, after some other short intro- spective remarks, one aims at raising the necessity of more systematic and deepened investigations about this subject.

Myths of Violence and Female Storytelling in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Kate Atkinson’s Human Croquet

2016

Stories of violence and oppression from classical mythology and fairy tales are redeployed in two novels by Atwood (1985) and Atkinson (1997) as archetypal pre-texts that impact on plot and narrative process. Although they are very different in genre and theme, both novels present first-person female narrators who are trapped in a claustrophobic present, and pose the question of the extent to which a story can be told from within the boundaries traced by myth, fairy tales and quasi-mythical literary texts. Clearly indebted to Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Handmaid’s Tale depicts a dystopian world where women live segregated by a male regime. References to the tale of Little Red Cap, cl…

Coincidenze compositive tra la IV Ode Romana di Orazio e la I Pitica di Pindaro

2000

Plausibilitat d?un ancestre comú entre les obres mitològiques de Joan Roís de Corella i les Transformacions de Francesc Alegre

2020

Between the Transformacions of Francesc Alegre (c.1452 - c.1508) and the mythological proses of Joan Roís de Corella some textual coincidences have been detected. Not without reservations, these coincidences have been explained as Corellas influence on Alegre. This is the most satisfactory explanation, given Alegre’s admiration and imitation of Corella’s prose, and Corella’s huge fame in the second half of the fifteenth century. However, Alegre knew earlier versions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, such as that by Francesc de Pinós (1416-1475), or the anonymous Castilian version, both nowadays lost. And perhaps these versions were known by Corella too. The textual coincidences of these two authors …

Deconstrucción y crítica del ethos épico en Lavinia (2008) de Ursula K. Le Guin.

2019

espanolUrsula K. Le Guin reescribe en Lavinia (2008) la leyenda del establecimiento de Eneas en Italia desde el punto de vista de su protagonista femenina. Este articulo analiza tres aspectos donde el nuevo planteamiento narrativo entra en conflicto con la propuesta virgiliana: la recreacion de la religion arcaica de los latinos, la racionalizacion del aparato mitologico propio de la epica, y la critica directa a las virtudes morales propias del estamento guerrero. EnglishUrsula K. Le Guin rewrites the legend of the establishment of Eneas in Italy in Lavinia (2008) from the point of view of the female protagonist of the novel. This article analyzes three aspects in which the new narrative a…

The Firstborn of Death: Monotheism and the Mythology of Death in Job 18

2019

AbstractJob 18 depicts the destruction of the wicked as a kind of ambush by “the firstborn of death.” Much of the discussion of this passage has centered on this figure’s identification, and whether one should look primarily to Ugaritic or Mesopotamian mythological traditions for its background. Yet the passage as a whole concludes with a reference to a single “God,” knowledge of whom is determinative for human fate. This raises a basic question concerning the relation between “God” and the “firstborn of death.” Through a close comparison with the Ugaritic Baal Cycle and the Neo-Assyrian Underworld Vision on the one hand, and Job 5 and Deuteronomy 32 on the other, this paper argues that “th…