* Mythopoeia ( genre )

* Mythopoeia ( genre )

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Mythopoeia ( also mythopoesis, after Hellenistic Greek " myth-making ") is a narrative genre in modern literature and film where a fictional mythology is created by the writer of prose or other fiction.

He expressed these beliefs in his poem Mythopoeia circa 1931, which describes myth-making as an act of " sub-creation " within God's primary creation.

Tolkien wrote Mythopoeia ( the poem ) following a discussion on the night of 19 September 1931 at Magdalen College, Oxford with C. S. Lewis and Hugo Dyson in order to explain and defend creative myth-making.

2003 / 2004 ( commentary on Mythopoeia the poem ).

Mythopoeia are almost invariably created entirely by an individual, like the world of Middle-earth.

Mythopoeia is sometimes called artificial mythology, which emphasizes that it did not evolve naturally and is an artifice comparable with artificial language, so should not be taken seriously as mythology.

* Craig Walker, " Michel Tremblay: Existential Mythopoeia ," The Buried Astrolabe: Canadian Dramatic Imagination and Western Tradition.

Recent years have also seen a number of supplementary releases, such as two from the Radio Clyde River Sessions series, a double live collection, several official bootleg recordings and Mythopoeia, an archive CD-Rom of audio and video material from the band's history.

The three tracks saw a broader release through the Mythopoeia compilation in 2000.

Both aforementioned tracks saw a re-release on the Mythopoeia compilation in 2000.

Mythopoeia is also the act of making ( creating ) mythologies.

Mythopoeia and The Lord of the Rings.

* Lobdell, Jared, The Scientifiction Novels of C. S. Lewis: Space and Time in the Ransom Stories, chapter " Is there Really Something called Mythopoeia?

“ Iconic Mythopoeia in MacEwen ’ s The T. E.

While the book is relatively short it includes lament ( 1. 8-16 ; 7. 8-10 ), theophany ( 1. 3-4 ), hymnic prayer of petition and confidence ( 7. 14-20 ), and the " covenant lawsuit " ( 6. 1-8 ), a distinct genre in which Yahweh ( God ) sues Israel for breach of contract, that is, for violation of the Sinai covenant.

In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman (; ) or coming-of-age story is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood ( coming of age ), and in which character change is thus extremely important.

Since the turn of the millennium, notable successes among cult and midnight movies have been Donnie Darko ( 2001 ), the 2001 comedy Wet Hot American Summer, an absurdist parody of the pre-MTV summer camp genre, and the comic book adaptation Ghost World.

Since the movie omits the religious and mythical elements of Dick's original novel ( e. g. empathy boxes and Wilbur Mercer ), it falls more strictly within the cyberpunk genre than the novel does.

* Cadence ( or Cadence-lypso ), a genre of music from Dominica

The film was James Stewart's first western ( he would not return to the genre until 1950, with Broken Arrow and Winchester 73 ), and was also notable for a ferocious cat-fight between Marlene Dietrich and Una Merkel, which apparently caused a mild censorship problem at the time of release.

Also famous as a prose stylist, Hume pioneered the essay as a literary genre and engaged with contemporary intellectual luminaries such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith ( who acknowledged Hume's influence on his economics and political philosophy ), James Boswell, Joseph Butler, and Thomas Reid.

The Jacksons ( previously The Jackson 5 ) did many disco songs from 1975 to 1980, including " Shake Your Body ( Down to the Ground )" ( 1978 ), " Blame it on the Boogie " ( 1978 ), and " Can You Feel It " ( 1980 )— all sung by Michael Jackson, whose 1979 solo album, Off the Wall, included several disco hits, including the album's title song, " Rock with You ", " Workin ' Day and Night ", and his second chart-topping solo hit in the disco genre, " Don't Stop ' til You Get Enough ".

The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats ( typically between 160 – 180 bpm, occasional variation is noted in older compositions ), with heavy bass and sub-bass lines.

Although The Moonstone is usually seen as the first detective novel, a number of critics suggest that the lesser known Notting Hill Mystery ( 1862 – 63 ), written by the pseudonymous " Charles Felix ", preceded it by a number of years and first used techniques that would come to define the genre.

He wrote sentimental plays, Le Fils naturel ( 1757 ) and Le Père de famille ( 1758 ), accompanying them with essays on theatrical theory and practice, including " Les Entretiens sur Le Fils Naturel " ( Conversations on The Natural Son ), in which he announced the principles of a new drama: the ' serious genre ', a realistic midpoint between comedy and tragedy that stood in opposition to the stilted conventions of the classical French stage.

Dance of Death, also variously called Danse Macabre ( French ), Danza de la Muerte ( Spanish ), Dansa de la Mort ( Catalan ), Danza Macabra ( Italian ), Dança da Morte ( Portuguese ), Totentanz ( German ), Dodendans ( Dutch ), Surmatants ( Estonian ), is an artistic genre of late-medieval allegory on the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, the Dance of Death unites all.

Other films in this genre were, Khote Sikkay ( 1973 ), Mera Gaon Mera Desh ( 1971 ), and Kuchhe Dhaage ( 1973 ) both by Raj Khosla, the latter inspired the blockbuster, Sholay ( 1975 ) had the character of Gabbar Singh played by Amjad Khan.

The word " Acts " denoted a recognized genre in the ancient world, " characterizing books that described great deeds of people or of cities.

The word " apocalypse " is also used for other works of a similar nature in the literary genre of apocalyptic literature.

A genre known as " chernukha " ( from the Russian word for " black "), including films such as Little Vera, portrayed the harsh realities of Soviet life.

Famous for his word play and neologisms, he coined the genre nickname " sci-fi ".

Hilda Ellis Davidson ( 1948 ) states that Hel " as a goddess " in surviving sources seems to belong to a genre of literary personification, that the word hel is generally " used simply to signify death or the grave ," and that the word often appears as the equivalent to the English ' death ,' which Davidson states " naturally lends itself to personification by poets.

The term No Wave is in part satirical word play rejecting the commercial elements of the then-popular New Wave genre.

The word satura as used by Quintilian, however, was used to denote only Roman verse satire, a strict genre that imposed hexameter form, a narrower genre than what would be later intended as satire.

One of the oldest records of the word samba appeared in Pernambuco magazine's O Carapuceiro, dated February 1838, when Father Miguel Lopes Gama of Sacramento wrote against what he called the samba d ' almocreve – not referring to the future musical genre, but a kind of merriment ( dance drama ) popular for black people of that time.

As a point of reference for the science fiction genre writer, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America define short story length Nebula Awards for science fiction submission guidelines as having a word count of fewer than 7, 500.

It appears in Modern French in the word genre ( type, kind, also genre sexuel ) and is related to the Greek root gen-( to produce ), appearing in gene, genesis, and oxygen.

However, the word genre is increasingly used to refer to gender in queer or academic contexts, such as the word transgenre ( transgender ) or the translation of Judith Butler's book Gender Trouble as Trouble dans le genre.

Usually the word ukiyo is literally translated as " floating world " in English, referring to a conception of an evanescent world, impermanent, fleeting beauty and a realm of entertainments ( kabuki, courtesans, geisha ) divorced from the responsibilities of the mundane, everyday world ; " pictures of the floating world ", i. e. ukiyo-e, are considered a genre unto themselves.

It was determined by the Recording Academy that the word " gospel " in the gospel genre field tends to conjure up the images and sounds of traditional soul gospel and leaves out the current contemporary Christian music ( CCM ).

The use of yaoi to denote those works with explicit scenes sometimes clashes with use of the word to describe the genre as a whole.

Between the 11th century and 15th centuries medieval writers often used the word shivalry, in meanings that changed over time, generally moving from the concrete meaning of " status or fee associated with military follower owning a war horse " towards the moral ideal of the Christian warrior ethos propagated in the Romance genre which became popular by the 12th century, and the ideal of courtly love propagated in the contemporary Minnesang and related genres.

The word picaro does not appear in Lazarillo de Tormes ( 1554 ), the novella credited with founding the genre.

In the second edition of his book, Improvisation ..., Bailey indicated that he felt that free improvisation was no longer " non-idiomatic " in his sense of the word, as it had become a recognizable genre and musical style itself.

The German word had the same meaning of " remembrance of absent or departed loved ones ", but acquired the meaning of " romantic longing for an unattainable woman of higher status " in courtly culture, giving rise to the genre of Minnesang, and the personification of " remembrance " as Frau Minne.

“ time rumba ceased to be simply another word for party and took on the meaning both of a defined Cuban musical genre and also of a very specific form of dance.