Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who records, narrates, or comments on myths.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A framer or writer of myths; a narrator of myths, fables, or legends.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A composer of fables.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun one who
studies orwrites downmyths andlegends
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Over the course of the campaign cycle so far, the one thing that has struck me most has been the resemblance between the political narrative and the narrative of the hero as sketched out in the writings of mythographer Joseph Campbell.
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But Mr. Gygax pointed to more diverse influences, including fantasy writer L. Sprague de Camp and mythographer Joseph Campbell.
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I don't know if Guy Gavriel Kay is any sort of mythographer, but the foundation on which his novels is built is the idea that myths and legends are manifestations of universal tropes--the important elements of individual myths are universal.
Ysabel Fred Perry 2007
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I don't know if Guy Gavriel Kay is any sort of mythographer, but the foundation on which his novels is built is the idea that myths and legends are manifestations of universal tropes--the important elements of individual myths are universal.
Archive 2007-01-01 Fred Perry 2007
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However, I am not solely a mythographer, but also a historian.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2004
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Thomson, embracing a role as a mythographer, uses the story that Ronald Reagan was considered for the part of Rick Blaine for a meaningful digression:
Slate Magazine Troy Patterson 2010
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"Sharon Olds is a natural mythographer -- all that falls within her scrutiny, all that she sees with her finely wrought poet-eye is myth, fairy tale, legend even as, for Olds, it is utterly domestic, ordinary."
News & Politics <a href="http://bnreview.barnesan 2010
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Jung as a mythographer was never popular and I was surrounded by behaviourists bowing down to Lord Skinner with his silly puzzle boxes - metaphorically speaking of course!
Vespertine Erotica 2009
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That is why Hitler imitated and glorified Richard Wagner, the Siegfried mythographer who marked the very height of German Romanticism.
American Thinker 2009
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Edward Morris: And there’s another tall tale mythographer and idol of mine
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