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The Trickster, the Transformer, and the Culture Hero: Michael Jordan as a Mythical Figure

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Muniowski Ł.
Acta Philologica
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2015
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issue 47
98-105
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Gwiazdy sportu to współcześni mityczni bohaterowie, prezentujący swoje umiejętności na stadionach i w halach całego świata. Ich mityczny status przekłada się na wartość rynkową, stanowiącą wyznacznik wyjątkowości danego atlety. Dla kibiców jest on bohaterem, dla sponsorów zaś marką, a pierwszym, który ucieleśniał zależność między tymi dwoma na pozór wykluczającymi się sferami był Michael Jordan. Artykuł, odwołując się do teorii antropologicznych, przedstawia Jordana, jako bohatera kulturowego, który stał się punktem odniesienia dla współczesnych sportowców.
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Sports stars are modern-day mythical heroes, showcasing their skills on fields and courts all over the world. Their mythical status translates to their market value, which is proof of an athlete’s exceptional status. For the fans he is a hero, for the sponsors a brand, and Michael Jordan was the first one to exemplify the relation between these two apparently distinct aspects. Drawing on anthropological theories, this article presents Jordan as the culture hero – the one that has set the standards for modern-day sports stars.
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Incomplete Objects and Unfulfilled Desire: Hubert Selby Jr.’s Requiem for a Dream

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Muniowski Ł.
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
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2019
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issue 28/1
113-124
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Sara Goldfarb and her son Harry, two central characters in Hubert Selby Jr.’s Requiem for a Dream, are both addicts. The objects of their desire, a television set and a bag of drugs, are of particular significance because they cannot be enjoyed without a transmitter – an antenna and a syringe. The article presents these objects as incomplete and the desire attached to them as misplaced. What the characters are really looking for is something beyond, “a pound of pure” happiness. The world in Requiem for a Dream is purely physical, so only what is done to the body can be felt and understood by the characters. In the end, Sara and Harry both become incomplete like the objects they are pursuing.
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