the domain of the study of myths and its evaluation in literary criticism has always been in the process of development. however, myth critics sometimes put theme, symbol, and motive into one structure so that what is considered as a theme in one case can considered as a myth, in another. nevertheless, there is a vast difference between these words, atlthough there is no consensus among the cri...

Due to the lack of a suitable measure of psychopathy to be used with Polish participants, the focus of the first empirical chapter was to translate the SelfReport Psychopathy Scale (SRP-III) into Polish with the aim to test construct validity and dimensionality, incremental validity, and composite reliability of the measure in a sample of working adults (N = 319). Confirmatory factor analyses r...

Misrepresentation of carbohydrate for exercise: 'It is time to bust the myth of physical inactivity and obesity: you cannot outrun a bad diet'Misrepresentation of carbohydrate for exercise: 'It is time to bust the myth of physical inactivity and obesity: you cannot outrun a bad diet'" (2015).

The ideologic construct referred to as the myth of racial democracy continues to constitute the central framework for understanding the “racial commonsense” in Brazil (Warren 2002; Winant 2001), as well as in much of Latin America (de la Fuente 2002; Wade 1997). The dominant trend in Brazilianist literature faults this construct for masking racism (Guimarães 2001; Winant 1999), discouraging pos...

As the number of systems which offer annotations on digital documents increases, robust anchoring of annotations is a key challenge. It is especially important if the annotator lacks write-access to the document being annotated. For example, if someone makes an annotation on a web page today and the web page changes tomorrow, what happens to the annotation? One approach is simply to “orphan” th...

Seen in the framework of classical reception, this paper discusses use ancient sources by modern poets highlighting some main aspects dialogue between past and present. It focuses on examination four poems that present an interesting reworking appropriation themes drawn from Homer’s Odyssey: Ezra Pound’s Canto XX (1928) Yannis Ritsos’ three selected short poems, included collection Testimonies ...