Search results for "myths"
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Oltre la ricerca del Graal, il divenire del mito
2014
A mythologist's study of the Graal cultural tradition. Using Francesco Zambon's recent Metamorfosi del Graal as his starting point, the author undertakes an analysis on the importance of the Graal in Western mystical, philosophical and literary traditions throughout time, from the impact of the medieval Graal stories on the matière de Bretagne and beyond (Troyes, Boron), to the appeal of this myth in modern times, including its occurrence on Richard Wagner, Martin Heidegger, Simone Weil, Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco.
Recensione a YVES MÉNY, Democrazia: l’eredità politica greca. Miti - potere - istituzioni, Milano, Ariele, 2022
2022
è la recensione al libro scritto da Yves Mény. It is a review of the book written by Yves Mény.
Miti mediterranei: un viaggio millenario
2020
Ha osservato Sebastiano Tusa: «Al di là delle immense e svariate risorse materiali che il mare ha offerto ed offre all’uomo, ve ne sono altre che attengono alla sfera sovrastrutturale che hanno nei millenni rifornito ed animato l’immensa enciclopedia dei miti, delle leggende e dei culti ad esso ispirati o, comunque, connessi». Distesa senza confini e abisso insondabile, il mare, con le sue repentine mutazioni di stato, le sue furiose tempeste e le sue mortifere bonacce, si è sempre imposto a chi lo solcava per raggiungere altri luoghi o per ricavarne da vivere come spazio del pericolo e del mistero, generando e sostenendo un ampio e polimorfo immaginario e divenendo attore e scenario al con…
Il culto dei gatti in India. Continuità ed evoluzione di credenze e pratiche religiose dall’India vedica all’India contemporanea
2019
Cat as an animal is a sporadic presence in Vedic mythology and Brahmanic works on rituals, while it appears in a few cult practices of contemporary popular religiosity in India. This article holds that in Indian devotional practices, the cat is conceived as an animal with an ambiguous nature. It also suggests that the cat cult is linked with the need to tame chaos, violence, and con$ict, and to place them in a controlled, orderly, and pacified cosmos. To understand these phenomena, this article studies, from a multidisciplinary perspective, contemporary religious practices in the light of the Indian tradition, and suggests that the cat cult was subject to substantial Brahmanization.
Pat Barker’s Regeneration: Subverting the Masculinity of World War I Official Discourse
2014
Pat Barker’s Regeneration (1991) offers an imaginative deconstruction of the myth of the Great War as produced within British official patriotic rhetoric and in some of the best-known lyrics by Wilfred Owen (1893- 1918), who, together with Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), has always been celebrated as one of the leading War poets. If Owen’s poetry partly entails the apolitical sublimation of the devastating facts of war through the ambiguous sentiment of pity, in Barker’s novel any suppression of emotions is posited as artificial and counterbalanced by a thorough exploration of those contradictory aspects of the Great War which official discourses have tended to obscure: the homoerotic experi…
Liiketoimintaverkostoon vaikuttavat tekijät - teknologinen näkökulma
2013
Tutkielmassa tutkitaan liiketoimintaverkostoja ja siihen vaikuttavia tekijöitä, erityisesti teknologian näkökannalta. Liiketoimintaverkostolla tarkoitetaan verkostoa jossa toimii useampi yritys ja joita sitoo toisiinsa erilaiset suhteet. Teknologialla tarkoitetaan tutkielmassa kaikkea teknologiaa jota käytetään muun muassa informaation eri muotojen luomiseen, tallennukseen, kommunikointiin ja käyttöön. Tarkemmin on tarkasteltu internettiä ja sitä hyödyntäviä teknologioita kuten sähköpostia, videoneuvottelua ja erilaisia IOS-järjestelmiä sekä digitalisaatiota. Tutkielman tutkimuskysymyksiä tarkasteltiin liiketoimintaverkoston kolmen myytin ja kolmen paradoksin teorioiden kautta. Tutkimuksen …
Metamorfosi del meraviglioso
2014
Mediterranean crossings in the fiction of Marina Warner: The Queen of Sheba, Rahab and Leto
2009
Le cinéma roumain pendant la période communiste : représentations de l'histoire nationale
2011
The subject of this PhD dissertation is the historical reconstructions films produced in Romania under communist rule and more precisely between 1960 and 1989. It analyses the social and cultural significance of the representation of national past but also the social and political aspects involved in the production process. In order to understand these research objectives our approach we stress first various logics which chairing the state action towards the culture and in particular towards the cinematography. We intend to analyze the economic, political and ideological conditions of the film production, the directives concerning the general thematic and the orientation that the party trie…
La representación de la historia reciente en la ficción televisiva española actual
2017
Based upon the assumption that television has a strong impact in the vision that we have about the pass, along the next pages we analyse the recent history representations present in Spain's tv-fiction and cinematographic productions too. As we establish relationships between both audiovisual productions, we propose to investigate about the construction of Transition's mythos and analyse if there is a television model in the mode of representing the recent history.