Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Of or relating to the making of myths.
- adj. Serving to create or engender myths; productive in mythmaking.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Giving rise to myths; pertaining to the creation of myth.
Etymologies
Examples
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When Nick Hornby called Drooker's work "mythopoeic," he wasn't kidding.
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Elephantiasis, Hydro-phobia, and Penal Servitude_), without once experiencing the "aching void" which is filled by such words as "mythopoeic," and "anthropomorphism."
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All three are rich with the sort of mythopoeic imagery that should particularly appeal to sf/fantasy readers, and Stevens's "The Man With the Blue Guitar" can be read, I think, as a sort of passionate defense of literary approaches derided by Realists.
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It seems like Lindsay hits on the sparse but mythopoeic style that MacDonald had.
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Others say that certain demographic changes shifted the balance of power away from angst and viscera towards scratching the mythopoeic urge to immerse oneself in a fantasy landscape.
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Ian commented that the story was “wonderfully descriptive and powerful and mythopoeic.”
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The poet does this in an attempt to give their scientific experiment “meaning” by describing it with mythopoeic archetypes.
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During the story another character attempts to refute him by saying about mythopoeic archetypes,
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You've heard in thirty years there'll be no more fish in the ocean and yet, today, orca pods roll on their hunt single-eyeing us, five of them, black humps, a mythopoeic serpent undulating, penumbrating, honing in for the slow deadly bite.
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Rather than the emptiness of our readings in literature, here were revealed the latent mythopoeic yearnings of the West.
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