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  William Butler Yeats and Irish Mythology
.... Yeats clearly believes that he has been limiting himself by the degree to which he is bound to the mythic past of Ireland, yet he can never really get away ....
(740 3 )

Greco-Roman and Indian Epics
.... culture. Epic focus on heroes of a mythic past may be relevant to a culture's history as well as its present concerns. Thus for ....
(2587 10 )

Four Epics: Odyssey, Aeneid, Ramayana, and Mahabharata
.... culture. Epic focus on heroes of a mythic past may be relevant to a culture's history as well as its present concerns. Thus for ....
(2587 10 )

Virgil
.... of Aeneas, the founder of Rome, and to celebrate the peace and prosperity Augustus achieved, while Homer's poems celebrated the mythic past of Greece but did ....
(1136 5 )

The Power of the Mythic Hero
.... Quixote: The Power of the Mythic Hero Joseph Campbell (1) describes the hero as "the man of self-achieved submission" who is "able to battle past his personal ....
(794 3 )

The Venetian's Wife (Nick Bantock)
.... strongly values the past; "Old forms were valued, ruins were sentimentalized as iconic of the action of Nature on the works of man, and mythic and legendary ....
(758 3 )

Native Son
.... gratification, represented as threatening in the figure of a Communist assassin, which ultimately is repelled with a return to a mythic past of "family values ....
(10529 42 )

Treatment of American Indians
.... "Calling Dances with Wolves 'Fantasy," a Historian Sounds a Charge Against the Mythic Past of the American West." People Weekly (April 22, 1991), 97-99. ....
(2530 10 )

The leprechaun of Irish folklore
.... The devolution of Lugh into the leprechaun is the story of the Irish descent from a proudly mythic Celtic past to the grey medieval reality: Lugh (grandson of ....
(4695 19 )

John Ford's Themes & Styles in 3 Films
.... McBride argues, "He retreated extensively into the American past to seek historical or mythic answers to the problems that troubled him in the present" (418). ....
(2804 11 )

Samurai Code & the Code of the American West
.... The past of the Western is America's frontier past, and always there is a sense of .... The samurai code and the Code of the West take on mythic proportions, and ....
(1732 7 )

Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai
.... The past of the Western is a frontier past as America moved toward the West .... The samurai code and the Code of the West take on mythic proportions, and Kurosawa ....
(1709 7 )

Seven Samurai & The Magnificent Seven
.... The past of the Western is a frontier past as America moved toward the West .... The samurai code and the Code of the West take on mythic proportions, and Kurosawa ....
(1721 7 )

Mythology in Star Wars Trilogy
.... Lucas creates a mythic quality from the first. .... Instead, it is set in the far distant past and in a galaxy far from our own: "Another galaxy, another time" (1 ....
(1701 7 )

The role of the myth in poetry
.... first part, lines 1-43, the aging king is reflecting on his past travel and .... Second, a universal conflict is idealized in the mythic theme of the poem, which is ....
(1286 5 )

Max Frisch's novel Homo Faber
.... weight. The mythic world becomes an obsession which links his past to his present in a way that is more and more fearsome to him. The ....
(3269 13 )

Ceremony (Leslie Marmon Silko)
.... Ceremony, first published in 1977, a somewhat outdated account of a past cultural event .... She does not create of her main character a mythic protagonist in the ....
(1805 7 )

Evolution of the Presidential Image
.... Suddenly the faults of past presidents were brought to the fore, and even .... President Clinton must realize that, whether he eventually achieves mythic status or ....
(1310 5 )

Philosophy of ET
.... the story of this film and in the ways in which certain mythic concepts are .... human beings to the next step in the evolutionary cycle leading past homo sapiens ....
(1579 6 )

Personal View of US Politicians
.... idea of the meaning of events both now and in the past, which should .... direction from above that had made this country strong: These charges are partly mythic. . ....
(2003 8 )

Touch of Evil
.... The past of the Western is a frontier past as America moved toward the West .... The samurai code and the Code of the West take on mythic proportions, and Kurosawa ....
(1761 7 )

The films of Takeshi Kitano
.... The past of the Western is a frontier past as America moved toward the West, and always .... The samurai code and the Code of the West take on mythic proportions. ....
(2286 9 )

California Dreams and Realities
.... the realities of these elements that often impact the mythic California Dream. .... Over the past fifteen years, while household income rose 82 percent, college ....
(2005 8 )

California Dreams and Realities
.... the realities of these elements that often impact the mythic California Dream. .... Over the past fifteen years, while household income rose 82 percent, college ....
(2001 8 )

Eugene O'Neill
.... storytelling that always gave first priority to the balance of mythic "truth" and .... him the Celtic nature, with its intimate relations with the past, catches a ....
(2272 9 )

Family and Group Therapy
.... toward groups, as well as their inclination to share both mythic models and .... transference in groups is composes of three major elements: the past brought into ....
(2468 10 )

The Decline of Venice
.... in which his patrons flattered themselves by commissioning works that referred to their past glories or elevated their contemporary affairs to mythic heights. ....
(4337 17 )

Themes in Work of F. Scott Fitzgerald
.... and Gatsby himself reflect this ambivalence about the past and present. .... American character, has elevated Gatsby to "proportions of mythic profundity" (Bruccoli ....
(2842 11 )

Main Causes of the Disintegration of Yugoslavia
.... 1994, p. 39). Another mythic element of Balkan people is their ability to blur the past and the present. Vendettas based on past ....
(4109 16 )

The books of the Bible
.... That distinctive mythic element of Jewish experience survives the harsh lessons of narratives of the culture's past, with the Jews claiming to retain special ....
(3401 14 )

 
 
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