Scene da un "matrimonio". Performance, genere e identità a Napoli by Eugenio Zito

“…<p>In this paper, after having synthetically reconstructed the traditional role of the <em>femminielli</em> in Neapolitan society, intertwining linguistic analysis with historical, anthropological, literary and mythographic sources, and highlighting complex processes of molding and reshaping, I will focus on the singular ritual of “marriage”, by using visual material collected in the field during an ethnographic research carried out in Naples in 2010. …”
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"Batmondi" e apocalisse. Attraversamenti devianti e contaminazioni diegetiche by Vincenza Di Vita

“…Wayne is disguised like a Zorro – Bat and so Bat-Man has chimerical semblance of a manque detectable in a mythographic guilt, that animates the deeds and he is portrayed by a knight with an erotic ride by the tables of Klaus Janson. …”
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Le soleil devient un mythe by Ildikó Lőrinszky

“…It especially focuses on the treatment of this question in two representative works of mythographic studies, The Origin of All Religious Worship by Charles-François Dupuis, and Les Religions de l’Antiquité..., the French adaptation of Frédéric Creuzer’s Symbolik und Mythologie der alten Völker by Joseph-Daniel Guigniault. …”
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Search of sources of Bersuire's Ovidius moralizatus after two illuminated passages by Pablo Piqueras Yagüe

“…The representation of the story of Bacchus in the Bergamo manuscript is found in other illustrations, and its accompanied text seems to rely on the mythographical tradition present in an anonymous Liber de natura deorum of the twelfth century.…”
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«Era di pietra la sua bellezza». Capri, mitografia di un luogo by Eugenio Zito

“…In the article I present, according to a cultural studies approach that includes the use of literary sources and images, a mythographical profile, although necessarily brief and not exhaustive, about the island of Capri in the bay of Naples, prodigy of natural beauty out of time, as a result of a singular combination of stone, sky, sea and light. …”
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Góngora, lector de El Asno de oro. A propósito de Soledades, I, 767-779 (con notas críticas sobre Herrera y Arguijo) by Francisco Javier Escobar Borrego

“…In fact, in this place of knowledge, prominent poets such as Fernando de Herrera and Juan de Arguijo offered their respective versions devoted to the literary treatment of the fable in the heat of the epic-mythographic poem La Psyche, by Juan de Mal Lara. Arguijo himself, on his part, was interested in the Soledades, attending to the obscurity of Góngora as a conceptual aesthetic category. …”
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Orografía, mito y transgresión en Primero Sueño de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz by Josefa Fernández Zambudio

“…We propose a review that starts from verses 310-326, in which the soul is placed on a high mountain, whose hyperbolic height is compared to other mountains. We analyze the mythographic tradition that supports the presence of the three elements of comparison, which are related to Greco-Latin mythology, Atlas, Olympus and a volcano, which we show must be Mount Etna. …”

OGIEŃ I NÓŻ – PIROFITYCZNA TWÓRCZOŚĆ ERNY ROSENSTEIN by Tomczok Marta

“…Taking at times narrative, fairy-tale or mythographic forms, poetry defines Rosenstein’s artistic idiolect in a more individual way than art could, allowing the artist's voice, her own speaking self, to be emphasized and dynamized.…”
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L’intime au pouvoir : de la « photogénie électorale » à l’ère du storytelling by Magali Nachtergael

“…Image and fiction surrounding private life participate to political life: in massmedia, books and on screens, the critical and esthetical deconstruction of these mythographical strategies help us reconsider the representation of intimacy as an active force in society.…”
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‘Bright Cynthia comes to hunt and revel here’ : constellations mythologiques et cynégétiques dans Titus Andronicus et Thomas of Woodstock by Agnès Lafont

“…The various aspects of the myth of Diana the Huntress are normatively described by mythographers in their dictionaries or by emblematists; typically, she is the goddess of chastity as one can understand from the set phrase: “as chaste as Diana”. …”
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Disability and Human Diversity: A Reinterpretation of Ẹni-òòṣà1 Philosophy in Yorùbá Belief by Omotade Adegbindin

“…Consequently, it questions the assumptions associated with the recognition of the dichotomy between “normality” and “abnormality” and confronts the mystical and/or mythographic representation of ẹni-òòṣà or persons with disabilities with a view to offering new insights into how persons with disabilities ought to be conceptualized in order to promote their inherent human dignity.…”
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Disability and Human Diversity: A Reinterpretation of Ẹni-òòṣà1 Philosophy in Yorùbá Belief by Omotade Adegbindin

“…Consequently, it questions the assumptions associated with the recognition of the dichotomy between “normality” and “abnormality” and confronts the mystical and/or mythographic representation of ẹni-òòṣà or persons with disabilities with a view to offering new insights into how persons with disabilities ought to be conceptualized in order to promote their inherent human dignity. …”
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Legenda o żelaznym wilku z Kroniki Macieja Stryjkowskiego w kontekście mitów założycielskich i baśni magicznych by Andrzej Wicher

“…The Legend about the Iron Wolf from Stryjkowski’s “Chronicle” in the Context of Foundation Myths and Tales of Magic Summary The present article is an attempt to look at Stryjkowski’s story of Gediminas’, the Grand Duke’s of Lithuania, and his dream, involving a vision of an iron-clad wolf, in the light of its possible folkloric and mythographic context. It is natural to look at it as a foundation myth, associated with the legendary origins of the city of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. …”
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A non-Ovidian myth in the Ovidius Moralizatus: the double parthenogenesis of Pallas and Vulcan according to Petrus Berchorius by Elena Moscara

“…The survey of textual souces demonstrates that Berchorius combined a minor mythographic tradition with two more successful ones, resulting in a original narrative absent in both the Ovidian Metamorphoses, and Barchorius’s predecessors and contemporary moral commentaries. …”
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The God-Haunted Atheist and the Posh Boy: Christopher Marlowe in Will and Upstart Crow by Michael D Friedman

“…Pearce’s depiction of Marlowe as a brilliant but tortured, blaspheming homosexual corresponds very closely with what Lucas Erne calls the “mythographic image” of the playwright cultivated by Marlowe scholars and biographers. …”
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For the love of art. Notes on agalmatophilia and Imitatio Creatoris, from Plato to Winckelmann by Juan Luis González García

“…With the story of Pygmalion, the classical embodiment of the «living image», the mythographers were allowed to compare the creative role of such a legendary character, capable of devising animated and rational beings, with the power of the gods. …”
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Fare dell’Africa un nuovo Brasile. Letteratura e retorica coloniale nell’Ottocento portoghese by Vincenzo Russo

“…The nineteenth-century Portuguese novel, even that is not inspired by the imperial novels, translated Africa as a mythographic space into a vast archive of representations, often original or, at least, different from the rhetoric of Europe.…”
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Alcune osservazioni sulle occorenze di Crux in Manilio, Séneca, Giovenale, Marziale by Ilaria Ramelli

“…Manilius for the first time ascrlbes the cross to Andrómeda, with a remarkable innovation in the mythographic tradition. But also Petronius, Lucan, Séneca, Juvenai and Martial In several occasions mention the cross. …”
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Laura Endress, Les trajectoires textuelles de l’Hercule médiéval : de la mythographie à l’historiographie et au-delà. Avec édition critique partielle du livre IX de l’Ovide moralis... by Laura Endress

“…Texts examined include, on the one hand, Latin commentaries on the Classics – on the Metamorphoses in particular – and related mythographic treatises, and, on the other, vernacular historiographical compilations, which evolved in close relation to works of historical romance. …”
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Ovide dans la General estoria d’Alphonse X by Irene Salvo García

“…Thus, the present dissertation is structured as follows : 1) an Introduction where the rules that characterize the reading of Ovid in the Middle Ages are described (ch. 1) ; 2) a study of the contextual elements of the Latin text in three sections : a study of the accessus, the glosses and commentaries that accompanied the Latin text in the medieval stage (ch. 2) ; an analysis of the mythographic works inserted in the compilation (ch. 3) ; finally ; the description of the characteristics which define the employing of Ovid’s less used works : the Fasti, the Remedia Amori, the Ars Amatoria and the Epistulae ex Ponto (ch. 4). …”
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