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Ginsberg marveled at Solomon's melancholy brilliance and proceeded to mythicize it.

106) makes a distinction between "story-as-text" and "story-as-performance," arguing that "the performance of stories is a key part of members' sense-making and a means to allow them to supplement individual memories with institutional memory." In these Rett Syndrome organizations, the transformation of the events into a story, with all the appropriate elements, and the reiteration of that story within the organization celebrate the behavior described in the story and serve to reify - even "mythicize" - the "hero-in-spite-of-herself."

By having the hasheesh-eater romanticize London in this way, "A Tale of London" calls attention to the human tendency to romanticize and mythicize an unknown Other culture, inflating real knowledge with wish-fulfilling fancy for the sake of aesthetic pleasure.

At the same time, it was the tendency to mythicize every ordinary reality in order to expand man's horizons and give him a legendary stature.")

One might be prepared to accept that Beowulf is a 'legislator hero' without feeling the need to mythicize him to this extent.

Due to the relentless human capacity to mythicize and to the creativity of the human spirit, Eliade insists, moderns continue to have myths.

Bakin's tendency to mythicize a loner's struggle in an alien world goes against anything known in Russian literature, and the struggle is motivated by strange and hyper-dimensional emotions.

Presenting folktales from a perspective of the dominant culture is akin to findings of history textbook research (e.g., Loewen, 2007) that mythicizes early heroes in ways to fit a benevolent view of the United States.

The epigraph mythicizes the narrator's audience ("thee") as itself in Job's shoes, with Ishmael as the messenger of mischance, that is, the reader becomes the object of that legendary test of wisdom conducted by those ultimate, mythic agents from Job's prose introduction, namely God and Satan.

The message must change; it must show how the American paradigm mythicizes history and works as a form of social control, consequently creating the glass-ceiling that keeps the "other" in their places.