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Divided into two parts, this volume includes contributions focused on both myth and some of its contemporary reflections (Part I) and the connection between myth, music and ritual (Part II). The fifteen contributions gathered here are authored by academics and researchers from Brazil, France, Poland, Mexico, South Africa and Romania. They focus on a variety of subjects, including folklore, literature, classical and traditional music, science-fiction, philosophy, and religion, among others.The volume operates with an awareness of the capital role the study of the imaginary, with all its implications, is playing in the contemporary world. Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Brief Introduction -- Part I: Reflections on Myth -- Sensualité, sexe(s), féminité. Éros et le genre -- Les Bacchantes. Sacrifice du taureau et sublimation de la Libido. Mythe, rite et psychanalyse -- The Myth of Electra in Theatrical Representations -- Anthropological Archaeology of the Builder's Myth (Manole Handicraftsman) and its Echoes in Romanian Drama -- Mythological Archetypes in Hardy`s Jude the Obscure -- Exploring the "Spirits" in Sh jo Culture -- The Audiovisual, the Myth of Possession and Speculative Fiction -- Part II: Myth, Music, Ritual -- Music and Rhythm as Vibrations Inherent in Human Being -- Kanteletar or the State of Song -- "Und wiegen und tanzen und singen dich ein -- Mechanical Musicality of the Profane and the Seduction of Sacredness -- Imaginary of Missions in St. Ignatius Mass: Music, Ritual and Myth -- Imagery and Symbols of a Former Kanak Myth Bound to the "Round Dance" and Its Rites -- Myth, Song and Ritual in the Modern World -- Contributors.
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