History, design and archaeology: The reception of Julius Caesar and the representation of gender and agency in Assassin’s Creed Origins by Nelson Bondioli, Marcio Texeira-Bastos, Luciano C. Carneiro

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'Did you say <i>oral literature</i>?' asked Walter Ong by J. Alant

“…Given the exclusivity of the notion of popular culture, centred on misconceptions relating to the constructedness of the oral text, the notion of oral literature continues, however, to operate in a theoretical void.…”
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‘Creatures in our bed’: Pandemics, posthumanism and predatory nature in World War Z (2013) by Samiksha Laltha

“…The discussion drew on cultural studies, popular culture and religion through the lens of Christianity, with a particular focus on the social and cultural anxieties that the figure of the ‘zombie’ holds as well as cultural interpretations of Mother Earth and nature as female.…”
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Mimetic desire in Augustine’s Confessiones as a model for natural theology and virtue ethics by Godfrey T. Baleng

“…Despite this, in popular culture, mimesis has the connotation of feyness and is discouraged in place of inventiveness. …”
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