speculative fiction Flashcards
this is independent study that will incorporate random knowledge that i obtain from reading various articles and books that fall under primarily science fiction, some fantasy, some horror and lexicon terminologies of the previous stated. this will lie in film and television mediums primarily but may also delve into some books, comics, poetry and art.
Mythopoeia
was used by the English linguist and fantasy author J. R. R.Tolkien in the 1930s, and by others since, to refer to:
(Mythopeisis in the Modern World).
a genre that integrates traditional mythological themes and archetypes into contemporary fiction.
What is Myth-making?
Mythopoeia
is a narrative genre in modern literature and film where a fictional mythology is created by the writer of prose or other fiction. This meaning of the word mythopoeia follows its use by J. R. R. Tolkien in the 1930s. The authors in this genre integrate traditional mythological themes and archetypes into fiction.
mythopoeia is sometimes called what by its critics?
Artificial Mythology
Artifical Mythology definition:
that it did not evolve naturally and is an artifice comparable with artificial language, so should not be taken seriously as mythology.
noted folklorist Alan Dundes argued that:
“any novel cannot meet the cultural criteria of myth. A work of art, or artifice, cannot be said to be the narrative of a culture’s sacred tradition…[it is] at most, artificial myth.”
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. the poem refers to:
to the creative human author as “the little maker” wielding his “own small golden sceptre” ruling his subcreation (understood as genuine creation within God’s primary creation).
The Inklings definition:
an informal literary discussion group associated with the University of Oxford, England, between the 1920s and the 1950s. This included his close friend C. S. Lewis.
Current attempts to produce a new mythology through collaborative means include the movement known as
New or Metamodern Classicism.
According to its website, metamodern classicism seeks to create:
“a vast, collaborative cultural project, uniting Painters, Poets, Musicians, Architects, and all Artists in one mythopoeic endeavor. Our goal is none other than a living mythological tradition: interactive, dynamic, evolving—and relevant.”
