mythopoeia

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  • However, post-Soviet non-humans are quite different from the hobbits and even the dragons of Tolkien's mythopoeia. —  Eurozine articles
  • HE has reached a stage of culture where such mythopoeia has become impossible. —  The Invention of a New Religion
  • For mythopoeia is just this, the incarnating the spirit of natural fact; and the generic name of that power is Art. A kind of creation, a clothing of essence in matter, an hypostatising (if you will have it) of an object of intuition within the folds of an object of sense. —  Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett
  • But one way of distinguishing mythopoeia from biography is whether or not his other distinguishing traits - such as his compulsive self-criticism (which could sometimes be even more severe than the charges of his detractors) and his desire to compensate for his self-absorption with certain forms of charm and generosity - are factored into the portrayal. novel) is intermittently attentive to the latter but completely oblivious to the former. " —  GreenCine Daily
  • But one way of distinguishing mythopoeia from biography is whether or not his other distinguishing traits-such as his compulsive self-criticism (which could sometimes be even more severe than the charges of his detractors) and his desire to compensate for his self-absorption with certain forms of charm and generosity-are factored into the portrayal. episode's got plenty of stars, terrifically photographed, too, but mostly you may find yourself wondering what that Nathaniel Dorsky aspires to discover in film a way of 'approaching and manifesting the ineffable,'"writes —  GreenCine Daily
 

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