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1	A Study of the Hero in John Fowles' The Magus McGowan, Sylvia J. 05 1900 (has links) The Magus, by John Fowles, can be read as a modern re-telling of the traditional hero quest. The thesis attempts to explore all of the ways the novel compares to hero myths. Fowles, John hero myth Campbell, Joseph
2	Archetypy v řecké mytologii / Archetypes of Greek Mythology Domanjová, Nikola January 2011 (has links) This work deals with characteristics of Greek mythology and tries to define a myth and to describe the differences between myths and fairy tales. It focuses on an origin and a history of myths, on gods and on heroes. My work also examines a concept of collective unconscious and archetypes, that appears in antique mythology (especially the archetype of a hero). Based on these findings, this work forms characteristic features of heroes, that are applied on the Greek heroes Odysseus and Achilles. Their life stories prove they deserve to be considered as archetypes of heroes. A survey, that deals with a concept of heroism according to contemporary young people, is also part of the work. It reflects not just the teenagers' image of a hero, but it examines their knowledge of Greek mythology, too.
3	Vývoj reprezentace Jiřího Kajínka v česképublicistice v roce 2010 / Representation of Jiri Kajinek in Czech print in 2010 Pošepná, Kateřina January 2012 (has links) The main concern of the thesis is the ability of the media to construct the image of criminals and it is demonstrated on the case of Jiří Kajínek. Criminality is a special topic most of the population has no personal experience with, and, therefore, they have to rely completely on the information offered by media. Jiří Kajínek is the most famous czech prisoner and, in its practical part, the thesis tries to explore the way the publicistic titles presented his case to public in 2010. Most of the examined titles takes Kajínek's side and does not offer balanced information regarding the case. This partiality is reflected mainly in the way of signification associated with Kajínek, in the framing and in the form of particular articles. The thesis then observes the influence of the Kajínek movie on his media presentment and its development. It focuses at the amount of media space given as well as at the way of the representation itself. Differences in both aspects have been found in particular titles.
4	Od lidovosti k fantastice - Proměna lidových motivů a jejich nová funkce na vybraných příkladech z polské literatury od romantismu do konce 20. století / From folksiness to fantasy - Transformation of folk motives and their new function on selected examples from Polish literature from Romanticism to the end of the 20th century Jilečková, Alžběta January 2019 (has links) The origin of fantasy motives dates back to the prescriptive era. Although literature itself is constantly developing, it's basic motives such as heroes or the text composition holds on to the classical archetypes, which helps the reader to stay oriented. Fantasy elements are a good representation of these archetypes. It is no secret that the authors of the modern and post-modern fantasy literature are often inspired by ancient mythical literature. On the contrary, these myths and archetypes research these texts and are, consequently, used in new variations. In this thesis, I try to analyze some of these motives such as the hero's journey, or the representation of the mythical characters and demonstrate their transformation from the simple folk archetypes to the complex elements used in modern literature. Apart from modern and postmodern literature, I also focus on the literature of the 19th century, due to the fact that it is the romanticism and the Young Poland era, where I found the first signs of the fantasy works in polish literature.
5	Alzheimer's Disease Narratives and the Myth of Human Being Rieske, Tegan Echo 11 December 2012 (has links) Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / The ‘loss of self’ trope is a pervasive shorthand for the prototypical process of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the popular imagination. Turned into an effect of disease, the disappearance of the self accommodates a biomedical story of progressive deterioration and the further medicalization of AD, a process which has been storied as an organic pathology affecting the brain or, more recently, a matter of genetic calamity. This biomedical discourse of AD provides a generic framework for the disease and is reproduced in its illness narratives. The disappearance of self is a mythic element in AD narratives; it necessarily assumes the existence of a singular and coherent entity which, from the outside, can be counted as both belonging to and representing an individual person. The loss of self, as the rhetorical locus of AD narrative, limits the privatization of the experience and reinscribes cultural storylines---storylines about what it means to be a human person. The loss of self as it occurs in AD narratives functions most effectively in reasserting the presence of the human self, in contrast to an anonymous, inhuman nonself; as AD discourse details a loss of self, it necessarily follows that the thing which is lost (the self) always already existed. The private, narrative self of individual experience thus functions as proxy to a collective human identity predicated upon exceptionalism: an escape from nature and the conditions of the corporeal environment. Dementia Alzheimer's disease Illness Narrative Metaphysics Bioethics Medicine Self Story Hero myth Cartesian ego Nature Evolution Brain Mind Body Nonself Self (Philosophy) Self in literature Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease -- Fiction Autobiographical memory in literature First person narrative Heroes -- Mythology Knowledge, Theory of Metaphysics Consciousness Bioethics Narration (Rhetoric) Thought and thinking Dementia Existentialism Self-perception Phenomenology Nonbeing Ontology

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