But her deeper contribution issued from her imagination's drive to transform the circumstances of a difficult life into mythic narratives of belonging and celebration.
Structurally, mythic narratives of such heroic figures falls into the genre of Romance, as Northrop Frye defined and described it.
Densely populated by manically interactive demons, monsters and little men, they combine graphic ingenuity, mythic narrative and erotic polymorphism to exhilarating effect (Johnson).
One of the things we see in movies about psychiatry or mental illness is a mythic narrative that audiences want to see rather than a mirror held up to reality.
But in Monument Valley, the mythic narrative is shared.
The videos pull the viewer along into a current of strong associative images, successive scenes from a mythic narrative that never really takes on its definitive shape.
Maybe primitive and juvenile mythic narratives do underlie the technocratic chatter about complicated national and international disputes that so trouble the world.
Philippi divides epic subjects into two groups: mythic narratives and heroic narratives (23).
Many of these references are mere allusions to mythic motifs, but several stories are based entirely on mythic narratives.
The mythic narrative concerning Bin Laden seems to grow exponentially.