In this article we present the analysis of four short stories by Milton Hatoum, included in book  A Cidade ilhada, published 2009. order analysis: “Dois poetas da provincia”, “Encontros na peninsula”, “Barbara no inverno” e “A Casa ilhada”. Our purpose is to highlight constant topics Hatounian fiction, as following: memory, foundation novel narratives; alterity, a typical feature foreigners the...

The mythological story of the association of lifting maximal amount of weight and muscle mass gain during resistance training has been perpetuated for a very long time. Passed on from gym meatheads, athletes, to coaches, moms, dads, even children can identify and promote this after watching a Saturday morning Incredible Hulk cartoon. Big muscles are made by lifting big weights, right? Not neces...

Awaiting Tiresias is a livestream performative autoethnography that uses film and streaming technology to take audience members into the liminal space of medical exam room in which performer left blindfolded dark contemplate their fate. The piece draws upon Greek mythology, common attitudes towards blindness disability, modern conceptions gender its multi-layered analysis identity diagnosis. ex...

J.R.R.Tolkien studied the Old Norse literature and mythology thoroughly. While knowing Northern literature does not provide a key to unlock the meanings of his major works, his characters, creatures, implements, customs, incidents, and themes do have antecedents in the Eddas and sagas. This paper assesses the extent and impact of those antecedents.

One of the alleged justifications for government provision of roads is that the power of eminent domain is necessary in order to overcome holdout problems and obtain right-of-way properties (Goldstein 1987).1 After all, this argument continues, only the state has such power, so the private sector would be unable to supply the efficient amount of roads.2 In this article, I examine this market-fa...

Andrej Belyj, a symbolist writer, conveys profound ideas and concepts of mythology through his own creation by borrowing a large number of plots and characters from myths or creating new mysterious stories, all based on his mythical thinking and the structure of myths he has employed in his creation. This paper takes the writer’s masterpiece, Petersburg, as an example to explore deeply his view...

Freud's debt to philosophy and philosophers is probably the most disputed, controversial, and ultimately confusing area of the sources he is said to have drawn from in the development of his thought. Conventional wisdom suggests that Freud had little use for philosophy and even despised the few philosophers whom he bothered to read. Freud's dismissive remarks in his 1933 paper “The Question of ...

Abstract. Whilst hydrology is a Greek term, it was not in use the Classical literature, but much later, during Renaissance, its Latin form, hydrologia. On other hand, natural philosophers (or, modern vocabulary, scientists) created robust knowledge related scientific areas, to which they gave names such as meteorology, climate and hydraulics. These terms are now common internationally. laid fou...