And as they go, the temptation to
mythologize them becomes harder and harder to resist.
characteristic that thrives on her tendency to
mythologize reality.
At times, especially in the early chapters of the book, which are stuffed with behind-the-scenes details culled from various interviews, letters, and memoirs, Solomon tends to
mythologize the making of the Broadway musical itself, in much the same way that the Broadway musical helped to
mythologize the Eastern European shtetl.
But it turns out that Emanuel Leutze's famous 1851 painting of the crossing (left) got a lot of the history wrong in an effort to heighten the drama and
mythologize the first president.
A scientific journal article is, in its own way, a narrative story, with a tendency to
mythologize its subject the experiment or study that it reports.
As a co-founder of Mondo 2000, a magazine that, along with Wired, helped to define and
mythologize digital culture in the 1990s, and as a collaborator with LSD guru Timothy Leary, Goffman is steeped in the history and practice of the individuals and groups that have long delighted in turning on, tuning in, dropping out, skewering the bourgeoisie, and otherwise monkeying around with convention.
Since World War II there has been a tendency to overdramatize or exaggerate Christian rescues of Jewish people; Tanay respects the nobility of those who did so but also carefully delineates examples in which the truth is lost to the need to
mythologize history and a few make good men into saints rather than confront the overall horror of what really happened.
He says the poems "elevate and irritate, they inspire and depress, they
mythologize and demonize.
were part of a wide tendency to
mythologize the soldier, it would have
"I always wanted to
mythologize Winnipeg as much as possible, just the way Hollywood is great at mythologizing the most far-flung corners of its own country.
I will conclude by showing how Tolkien moved past irony as the only proper response to the war, the response chosen by writers like Sassoon and Graves, and chose instead to
mythologize his experiences.