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In this study, we intend to provide an analysis of the relationship between myth and history in The Lord of the Rings. After having presented the concept of “applicability”, we offer an interpretation of two chapters of the novel, where myth appears as an experience that the readers can feel, at the same time as they become aware of what the myth is, due to the presence of legends becoming real and of real events about to become legends.
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The vast collection that makes up the Prize Papers preserved in London contains archives seized on French ships captured by British privateers in the course of Franco-British conflicts during the xviith and xviiith centuries. The collection includes a considerable number of private papers and correspondence belonging to crew members and passengers bound for the Mediterranean or the Atlantic colonies. These papers include song notebooks, as well as printed or manuscript chapbooks that included songs collected eventually by fieldworkers studying European or North American folk traditions. In some cases, they are the earliest available examples of song texts. The collection thus provides an opportunity to study the circulation of oral traditions between France and the colonies using sources that are not included in the Laforte and Coirault song indexes.
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Studying Tobago island contributes to underline a French imperial strategy in the 18th century. Through the examination of several maps, published in France as well as in England, I show that, although Tobago isn't occupied by any European power, views are created. Maps have a discursive nature. The indetermination of Tobago status doesn't prevent cartographers from assigning it to some European power or other, according to their proximity with the power. As a consequence, representations of Tobago circulate. They allow knowing, appropriating and claiming this island. They contribute to the invention of a territory. The cartographic representations underline an imperial thought, taking into account a set of territories, organized together according to the European context.