Fairytale vs Mythic - What's the difference?
fairytale | mythic |
Larger-than-life.
* 1998 , ChloƩ Diepenbrock, Gynecology and textuality: popular representations , page 88:
* 2007 , James Daniel Hardy, Baseball and the mythic moment: how we remember the national game , page 63:
* 2008 , Peter Schmidt, Sitting in darkness: New South fiction, education, and the rise of Jim Crow , page 156:
* 2010 , Networks of Design: Proceedings of the 2008 Annual International Conference of the Design History Society , page 161:
Mythical; existing in myth.
* 2005 , Gerhard Hoffmann, From modernism to postmodernism: concepts and strategies , page 294:
* 2008 , Laurence Jay Silberstein, Postzionism: a reader , page 351:
As adjectives the difference between fairytale and mythic
is that fairytale is while mythic is larger-than-life.As a noun fairytale
is .mythic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Whitehead-Gould has become a mythic presence in the case history fairy-tale: the personification of the selfish woman who went back on her promise to deliver up her child to an unfulfilled aspiring mother.
- Had Pesky nailed Enos Slaughter in the 1946 Series, his throw home would have become a mythic moment.
- The Wyoming territories become a mythic space where character is tested and revealed and Good battles Evil.
- By the mid-nineteenth century tartan had become a mythic material encompassing ideas of nationhood, clanship, and political allegiance seen through increasingly fashionable and spectacular forms.
- Bellerophon attempts to become a mythic' hero by perfectly imitating the actuarial program for ' mythic heroes.
- The ways in which Eastern Europe has become a mythic part of the Jewish past and not an imagined mythic home in the future is central to understanding how American Jews see themselves at home in America.