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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The artistic representation of mythical subjects.
- noun A collection of myths, often with critical commentary.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Representation of myths in graphic or plastic art; art-mythology.
- noun Descriptive mythology.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A depiction of a
myth inliterature or thearts .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Or perhaps something akin to the hermeneutic approach used to decipher arcanely symbolic texts; or the lessons of cultural studies which help us to identify and assess far-cultural iconography and mythography.
G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God G. Roger Denson 2011
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Mostly, how easily it allowed me to talk about the history and the mythography of part of America.
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There is no reason, in a creative mythography sense, that the adventures of sheriff John T. Chance in protecting his town along with his friends cannot be included here, or even James Beckwourth's frontier work.
Archive 2010-01-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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Or perhaps something akin to the hermeneutic approach used to decipher arcanely symbolic texts; or the lessons of cultural studies which help us to identify and assess far-cultural iconography and mythography.
G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God G. Roger Denson 2011
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Or perhaps something akin to the hermeneutic approach used to decipher arcanely symbolic texts; or the lessons of cultural studies which help us to identify and assess far-cultural iconography and mythography.
G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God G. Roger Denson 2011
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Steve will write about whatever media strikes his interest, with special attention spent on continuity, mythography, conspiracy and psychology.
2009 Is The Year Of The ‘Geek’… « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2008
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When Byron includes a pair of women in his mythography of friendship, he marks a new moment in the long history of same-sex bonds.
'Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes 2006
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This is on top of another fabulous excursion by Farmer into creative mythography. the Wold Newton family tree is expanded herein, as well.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Doc Savage : His Apocalyptic Life - Philip Jose Farmer Blue Tyson 2006
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Euhemerism, is rather strangely invoked in the Preface to the published Temple, where this hangover from the mythography of Progress is not at all appropriate: in the published poem, as in Botanic
Progress of Society 2006
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Though City of Heroes has tried to integrate its respec into the mythography of comic books and superheroes—your character gets exposed to strange energies and so his powers change, which is in fact a pretty established trope in superhero stories.
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