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However, in terms of analyzing the nature of this monumental work, the author loses his focus upon the mythic in his attempts to explain the allegoric.

Attebery makes clear that he is not interested in simply verifying the existence of mythic content in fantasy fiction--his project involves an investigation of "the way writers use fantasy to reframe myth" (2-3), the way "the fantasist appropriates from, engages with, travesties, and reconstitutes the myth" (3), and the way each modern telling exists as an act of "recreating that which has always existed only in performance, in the present" (4).

Mythic had been withdrawn on her intended reappearance at Yarmouth last month after refusing to enter the stalls, and Fanshawe went down to the start to supervise this time.

And absolutely the magazine stands at a mythic center of American life.

Again, this might have to do with Virgo's use of mythic and melodramatic structures but certain inconsistencies do, at times, impede the storytelling.

Sandra Jackson Opoku, who scored big with her prize-winning mythic first novel, The River Where Blood Is Born (Random House, 1998), examines the fictional life of Hot Johnny through the confessions of eighteen very different women.

In Australian Aboriginal mythology, the time of Creation when the natural environment was shaped and humanized by the actions of mythic beings known as Ancestors.

Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada: Mythic Discourse and the Postcolonial State Jennifer Reid Published By University of Manitoba Press Pages: 314

Rather, he posits a mythic persecution of vulnerable outsiders that dates back to the beginnings of the American experience, and that directly relates persecution of minorities to persecution of political dissidents.

The truth is that anyone disagreeing with the attacks made on Jews, homosexuals, and others not only would have had to confront the ire of Muhammad's audience but also could not have offered on the spot a mythic vision of history as compelling as Muhammad's.

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Pepe will design the mythic monsters for the picture, which Kalliope Films will produce.

He is saluted first here because the purpose of African mythic science is to present a method for analyzing the experience of African peoples using African myth as a frame of reference.

She argues that Americans have always held so dear the idea that there are no irreconcilable conflicts here (especially economic ones) that when such conflicts make themselves evident, we find a mythic scapegoat instead.