This article analyzes the symbolic aspects of protracted conflict in Armavir between city authorities and leadership branch Union Armenians Russia (from 2012 to 2019) connection with installation a memorial plaque near Armenian church honor political figure Garegin Nzhdeh. The analysis from perspective concept "symbolic politics" allowed us identify some specifics policy remembrance carried out...

Retrospective diagnosis of illness in historical figures is a popular but somewhat unreliable pastime due to the lack of detailed information and reliable reports about clinical features and disease progression. Modern computer-based diagnostic programmes have been used to supplement historical documents and accounts, offering new and more objective approaches to the retrospective investigation...

The Odyssey is a poem of paradoxes. Its central hero is both poet and liar, hero and trickster, emphatically famous and notoriously anonymous, endowed with a ravenous belly, yet capable of extreme fasting. The poem itself provides a narrative context entirely worthy of such ambiguity. Hailed by many for its self-reflexive narrative sophistication, it resorts nonetheless to primitive folktales f...

The fourteenth century anonymous English romance Robert of Cisyle takes its plot from the saints’ legends; therefore, it is classified under title homiletic romances. Considered as a secularized hagiography, describes miraculous interference divine power to chastise king, his subsequent submission all suffering and withstanding owing piety. Robert, proud King Cisyle, indeed self-victimizer he p...

An interpretation of the semantic unity poetic cycle Joseph Brodsky “Mexican Divertissement” (1975), consisting 7 (15) lyrical texts, is proposed. If earlier researchers considered one or another poem in isolation, then problem integrity entire work actualized work, question relationship individual cyclic texts raised. It shown how same characters (emperor Maximilian, Huaretz, hero), images (du...

The psychological investigation of heroism is relatively new. At this stage, inductive methods can shed light on its main aspects. Therefore, we examined the social representations of Hero and Everyday Hero by collecting word associations from two separate representative samples in Hungary. We constructed two networks from these word associations. The results show that the social representation...