"The Haunted Tree" achieves what I think it is appropriate to call a mythologization of nature. From Wordnik.com. [Wordsworth's 'The Haunted Tree' and the Sexual Politics of Landscape] Reference
I have also noticed a similar porocess of mythologization around Sri Aurobindo, regarding opposition to a recent non-hagiographic biography. From Wordnik.com. [Mythologization around Sri Aurobindo] Reference
In fact, the Palmah trilogy as a whole contributed to the process of de-mythologization of the past that has been taking place in Israel since the early 1980s. From Wordnik.com. [Netiva Ben Yehuda.] Reference
Coleridge's life and Blake's mythologization of the psychosomatics of Milton moving at once inspirationally and with painful apocalyptic dread through Blake's bowels. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on 'Introduction'] Reference
An award-winning author and editor of numerous books on nineteenth-century classical studies, Calder demonstrated that Schliemann had a penchant for self-mythologization. From Wordnik.com. [Behind the Mask of Agamemnon] Reference
But, I would just say that while wooden literalism is one danger, at least as many, if not more, texts have been butchered by some kind of Bultmannian De-mythologization programme. From Wordnik.com. [Naive vs. Conscious Literalism] Reference
Taking into account the original film, and George Miller's history with sequels, there's probably going to be a great emphasis on the main character and his mythologization, and I do believe the two of them are going to tie into this, somehow. From Wordnik.com. [Brad Pitt and Matt Damon Join George Miller's Happy Feet 2 « FirstShowing.net] Reference
I cannot escape the feeling that Iowa's self-mythologization and star-worship has created a sense of complacency: Secure in the knowledge that a few talented writers following the star of reputation or celebrity faculty will find their way to the cornfields every year, and rise inevitably on their own merits, the program seems not to have bothered to create a program. From Wordnik.com. [Gerry Canavan] Reference
It seems all too obvious that at the historical moment in which the mythologization of the Germanic past was part and parcel in Nazi regime in Germany, it is beyond mere coincidental significance that an English scholar claims a place for English (both national and scholarly designations) interpretation of a poem, which he claims “turns under our Northern Skies” (emphasis mine). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
Only with time and mythologization did it become what it truly is. From Wordnik.com. [theartblog] Reference
This dynamic, I believe (I am no social scientist), is what lies behind this mythologization the article describes. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
Regardless of the historicity of the crucifixion, its mythologization certainly fits the pattern that Eliot was playing on. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph Blogs] Reference
Less positively, he is now perhaps best known for his unique talent for self-mythologization and sometimes reckless embroidery of the facts. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
The resonances with the mythologization of the American Civil War are equally uncanny: among Watkins. s targets is the long-standing depiction of the defeated. From Wordnik.com. [News Dissector Blog] Reference
It becomes a process of looking back at a certain point in time and the mythologization of that period, and how it exists in the imagination of people who weren't there. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
"England has made several very creative attempts at eradicating Canada's first peoples - the mythologization of first-nations peoples was a false 'swan song' type of trend that has, sadly, lasted until 2010.". From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
Acquarello reviews Le Lit de la vierge: Philippe Garrel's fusion of iconic cultural history and allegorical social commentary also provides the prescient framework for what would become the inevitable mythologization of the events of May 68, where personal memory has been tinted by the idealized nostalgia of unrealized history, and irreparably altered by the intoxicated haze of (trans) formative years lived under the influence - creating an illusive (and delusive) romanticism borne of a need to reconcile a generation's spiritual desolation with a sense of irrecoverable enlightenment that has been obscured (if not extinguished) by its own reclusive, escapist, and self-destructive behavior. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 5/17.] Reference
From its constant sampling of past styles and eras — old records, fashions, slang, anything — to its mythologization of the self-made black antihero, hip-hop is more than a musical genre: it’s a philosophy, a political statement, a way of approaching and remaking culture. From Wordnik.com. [The End of White America?] Reference
I cannot escape the feeling that Iowa’s self-mythologization and star-worship has created a sense of complacency: Secure in the knowledge that a few talented writers following the star of reputation or celebrity faculty will find their way to the cornfields every year, and rise inevitably on their own merits, the program seems not to have bothered to create a program. From Wordnik.com. [Gerry Canavan] Reference
1953, our major competitor had a far lower vocabulary count than our own -- c. 130,000 vs. 142,000 -- we felt no need to pad the figure with such entries or run-ins as mythologization or permeableness, as in, for example, The Random House College Dictionary. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 3] Reference
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