Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
mythopeic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Making or producing myths or mythical tales.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Being a creative interpretation
- adjective mythology Given the quality of a myth or a poem, used typically in opposition to a purely factual account
Etymologies
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Examples
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This is at the heart of Bly's "mythopoetic" approach to male malaise.
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And the men's groups of today tend to be centered on traditional religion, not Bly's "mythopoetic" antics.
Remember the men's movement? Ann Althouse 2005
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Though you get there by flight, you firmly land on the substrate of mythopoetic ground.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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This celebration engages our mythopoetic imagination with those early swashbucklers who had some admirable traits.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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In contrast to Mehta's and Neshat's depictions of religious women's homosocieties, Marina Abramovic's excursions into the homosocial divide consists of reprising mythopoetic imagery and ritual performance that represent the equalizing valuations of women believed to have marked many agrarian populations around the world.
G. Roger Denson: XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide G. Roger Denson 2011
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In contrast to Mehta's and Neshat's depictions of religious women's homosocieties, Marina Abramovic's excursions into the homosocial divide consists of reprising mythopoetic imagery and ritual performance that represent the equalizing valuations of women believed to have marked many agrarian populations around the world.
G. Roger Denson: XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide G. Roger Denson 2011
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Yet the mythopoetic content is as significant, in that we find our dying god and central character embodied as a 1967 Chrysler Imperial.
G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God G. Roger Denson 2011
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They, by the continuity of their photographic self-immersions, compel us to expect the process of the photographed life even when entering the realms of the fictitious and mythopoetic to play itself out to the end.
G. Roger Denson: "Old," "Crazy" and "Hysterical." Is That All There Is? G. Roger Denson 2011
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The mythopoetic power of the car, aligned with the history of the open Road in America, was from the beginning destined to become one of America's, and Democracy's, most exalted myths.
G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God G. Roger Denson 2011
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Barney's mythopoetic investment in the DJED installation is heightened by what for him is its somber materiality and coloring; its powdery, chipped and unreflective textures; the blackness and greyness of the ash, dirt, detritus and slag deposited around the room.
G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God G. Roger Denson 2011
elisheba commented on the word mythopoetic
adjective referring to the creation of myths - myth-making. poetic here is used in the etymological greek sense (poiesis = creation, making).
September 1, 2008