10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MYTHOPOEIST»
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mythopoeist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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American Fiction Between the Wars
Sherwood. Anderson: American. Mythopoeist. It is not surprising that during the
past generation Sherwood Anderson's literary reputation should have suffered an
eclipse, for the renascent American literature which he envisioned and in part ...
2
Perspectives on Wole Soyinka
The point of course is that for all his vigorous self-identification and self-
justification as a mythopoeist in such essays as 'Drama and the Idioms of
Liberation', 'Who's Afraid of Elesin Oba?', 'The Autistic Hunt' and 'Barthes,
Leftocracy and Other ...
3
Comparative Approaches to African Literatures
In short, Soyinka is not just universal, African or Nigerian, as the earlier
commentators had claimed, but is a cosmic mythopoeist, an extraterrestrial
wonder-worker. What's more, "Soyinka's mythopoeisis has a personal,
idiosyncratic dimension ...
4
Perspectives in contemporary criticism: a collection of ...
Like the historical critic the mythopoeist finds the facts garnered from his historic
and quantitative research into myth to be the proper point of departure for his
critical journey into literature.^ In the manner of the formalist the mythopoeic critic
will ...
Sheldon Norman Grebstein, 1968
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Sherwood Anderson: a collection of critical essays
Sherwood Anderson: American Mythopoeist by Benjamin T. Spencer I It is not
surprising that during the past generation Sherwood Anderson's literary
reputation should have suffered an eclipse, for the renascent American literature
which he ...
Walter Bates Rideout, 1974
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The Century dictionary and cyclopedia: a work of universal ...
16. mythopeist, mythopoeist (mith-o-pe'ist), m. [As mythopeic + -ist.] A myth-maker
. The Vedic mythopoeist Is never weary of personifying this particular part of
celestial nature [the dawn). Eeary, Prim. Belief, p. 145. mythoplasm (mith'o-plazm
), ...
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1906
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
The Vedic mythopoeist is never weary of personifying this particular part of
celestial nature {the dawn]. Keary, Prim. Belief, p. 145. mythoplasm (mith'o-plazm
), «. [< Gr. jivOof, myth, + -?.ao-fioc, anything molded, a fiction, < ir?.a(jaeiv, mold,
...
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Crossword Lists & Crossword Solver: Over 100,000 potential ...
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VARNISH NAKHICHEVAN NAMEDROPPED NAMEDROPPER NAPHTHALENE
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Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge
At this juncture Kalitsa reveals herself as an ingenious mythopoeist. She re-
contextualizes the figures of Minas and herself by portraying them as archetypal
embodiments of two antagonistic sociocultural modalities. She suggests that her
...
Kirsten Hastrup, Peter Hervik, 2003
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The Romantic Poets: A Guide to Criticism
... but only as variant efforts of the mind to apprehend the same truth. Hence, the
stuff of all myths is, collectively and indiscriminately, available to the mythopoeist
for his task of compelling thoughts to their most nearly perfect structure. Indeed ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MYTHOPOEIST»
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mythopoeist is used in the context of the following news items.
The Hobbit unearths a hoard of myths
But he was an astonishing mythopoeist. Tolkien's starting point was the same as that of the Grimm brothers, whose work is in vogue once more: ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 12»
Amar Chitra Kathakar
The master mythopoeist had his own creation story. “One day, in February 1967, I was in Delhi,” he told me when we met several years ago. «Hindustan Times, Feb 11»
