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my·thog·ra·phy  (m-thgr-f)
n. pl. my·thog·ra·phies
1. The artistic representation of mythical subjects.
2. A collection of myths, often with critical commentary.
mythography
1. the collecting of myths.
2. the recording of myths in writing.
3. a critical collection of myths. — mythographer, mythographist, n.
See also: Mythology
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1363-74), Georgius Pictor (Theologia Mythologica, 1532), Lilio Giraldi (De deis gentium varia & multiplex historia, 1548), and Vincenzo Cartari (Imagini de i dei degli antichi, 1556); they are careful to delineate not only Conti's weaknesses but also his strengths relative to other mythographies.
Mythologiae by Hunt, Patrick / Renaissance Quarterly
who connects his idea of the primitive to the history of primitive capital accumulation, commodity fetishism, the narcissistic inflection of the subject, and the production of American mythographies and atavism.
Primitive America; the ideology of capitalist democracy by Reference & Research Book News
But she does ask us to consider Jobson's text as one which "both support(s) and challenge(s)" mythographies of color that we have today (219).
Shades of Difference: Mythologies of Skin Color in Early Modern ... by Royster, Francesca T. / Shakespeare Studies
 
 
 
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