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Religion developed out of myths. Myths developed independently in different places of the world. It seems that people have the wish to explain themselves what they perceive. Our psychological setting make us journey within ourselves to develop us. This building tries to support this process with its layout and design. / Master of Architecture

This thesis document is the record of a quest for a foundation in a 'tactical making' that is both dense and lucid enough to sustain and filter hueristic discoveries, as well as manifest itself only through a residue or deposit, appropriately receding back into its proper domain. The quest required assimilation of a making mode that uses both an illusive density of proto fragments and a lucid means to ratiocination to build working channels between conjuctive and disjunctive modes of seeing, thinking, and experience. This necessary integration of reflective distance with the vitality of making is not an overt part of a modern humanities education and consequently my architecture education pushed me beyond known domains. In forming the narrative for this thesis I discovered that the architectural structure carries the story of the journey. / Master of Architecture

The following study is divided into five parts, The first part examines the use of myth in Eguus, Various interpretations of myth are presented and their relationship to Equus is explored. Chapter II covers the relevance of psychology to the play. R, Do Laing's comments on normalcy as the goal of society and Carl Jung's theories on the subconscious are both important to a study of Equus. The philosophy of Nietzsche helps explain some of the ideas in Equus, and Chapter III summarizes his contributions to the study. Chapter IV is a close look at the symbolism of the horse, and Chapter V deals with the yearning for transcendence as discussed by early German Romanticists, Equus is a romantic statement incorporating the fields of myth and psychology.

Thesis (Ph.D. (Literature)) --University of Limpopo, 2011 / Refer to document / University of Limpopo

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Vieno įdomiausių šiuolaikinio anglų rašytojo John’o Fowles’o kūryba yra lyg išsamus ir gilus ekskursas į vakarietiškos kultūros, filosofijos, mitologijos, meno ir istorijos raidą. Pasaulinėje literatūros kritikoje, J. Fowles’o proza yra analizuojama šiais aspektais: 1) kaip romantizmo ir neoromantizmo idėjų tesėja ir skleidėja, 2) kaip egzistencialistinės literatūros tęsėja, 3) kaip postmodernistinės rašymo tradicijos skleidėja, 4) kaip mitopoetikos ir mitinio rašymo atstovė. Darbo tikslas yra pateikti struktūrinę pačio Orfėjo mito analizę ir pritaikyti ją analizuojant Fowles’o prozą. Orfėjo mito struktūra atskleidžia akivaizdžias tris dalis, į kurias susigrupuoja visos mite esančios mitologemos. Trinarė Orfėjo mito struktūra sudaro binarines opozicijas, kuriomis remiantis galima atskleisti giluminius mito klodus, santykių pluoštus ir konfliktus.Pirmieji Orfėjo mitą pateikę rašytiniai šaltiniai - Vergilijaus „Georgikos“ ir Ovidijaus „Metamorfozės“ jau byloja apie šio mito invariantų interpretacinę gausą ir įvairovę. Vergilijus ir Ovidijus tą patį Orfėjo mitą pateikia visiškai skirtingai. Vergilijus naudoja Orfėjo mitą kaip Aristėjo mito svarbią dalį, kuri paaiškina gamtinio, kosminio ir kolektyvinio ciklo sutrikimą, t.y. – bičių praradimą. Ovidijus savo „Metamorfozėse“, priešingai nei kad Vergilijaus „Georgikose“, Orfėjas mite atlieka tarpininko vaidmenį, jis yra mediatorius, pagrindinė ašis leidžianti egzistuoti visiem esantiems mite santykiams ir konfliktams. Orfėjas kaip... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / One of the most interesting contemporary novelists John Fowles’s creation can be considered as a deep and broad excursus to the development of western culture, philosophy, mythology, art and history. In literature critics Fowles’s creation is analysed in these aspects: 1) as the existential projections of romance proceeding the traditions of the romanticism literature, 2) as the holder of existential literature traditions, 3) as the supporter of postmodern tradition in literature, 3) as the representative of myth poetic. The aim of this thesis is to give the structural analysis of the myth of Orpheus and to apply it in the analysis of Fowles’s prose. The structure of the myth of Orpheus reveals three parts and groups all the myth elements in them. The trinomial structure of the myth of Orpheus creates the binary oppositions that help to reveal all the layers of the myth, the main conflicts and relations. Virgil’s “Georgics” and Ovid’s “Metamorphosis” - the first written resources where we meet the myth of Orpheus, already proves that the myth has lots of invariants and interpretation possibilities. Virgil and Ovid represent the myth of Orpheus in very different ways. Virgil uses the myth of Orpheus as the complex part of the myth of Aristeus which helps to explain the reason how he lost his bees and why the natural order is discomfited. Ovid in his “Metamorphosis” argues Virgil and depicts the myth of Orpheus as the main centre of narration and the base for the other myths... [to full text]

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on February 27, 2008) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

The reading of four contemporary novels, namely: Credo by Melvyn Bragg, The Catastrophist by Ronan Bennett, Everything You Need by A.L. Kennedy and American Gods by Neil Gaiman explores the prominent position of mythification and remythification in contemporary literature. The discussion of Bragg's novel examines the significance of Celtic mythology and folklore and to what extent it influenced Christian mythology on the British Isles and vice versa. The presentation of the transition from a cyclical, pagan to a linear, Christian belief system is analysed. My analysis of Bennett's novel supports the observation that political myth as myth transformed contains elements and qualities embodied by sacred myths and investigates the relevance of Johan Degenaar's observation that "[p]ostmodernism emphasises the fact that myth is an ambiguous phenomenon" and practices an attitude of "eternal vigilance" (1995: 47), as is evident in the main protagonist's dispassionate stance. My reading of Kennedy's novel explores the bond that myth creates between the artist and the audience and argues that the writer as myth creator fulfils a restorative function through the mythical and symbolic qualities embedded in literature. Gaiman's novel American Gods focuses on the function of meta/multi-mythology in contemporary literature (especially the fantasy genre) and on what these qualities reveal about a society and its concerns and values. The thesis contemplates how in each case the original myths were substituted, modulated or transfigured to be presented as metamyth or myth transformed. The analysis shows that myth can be used in various ways in literature: as the data or information that is recreated and transformed in the creative process to establish a common matrix of stories, symbols, images and motifs which represents a bond between the author and the reader in terms of the meaning-making process; to facilitate a spiritual enrichment in a demythologized world and for its restorative abilities. The study is confirmed by detailed mythical reference. / English Studies / (D. Litt. et Phil. (English))