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Here's a helpful wikipedia entry defining mythopoeia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythopoeia_(genre)
It seems to be a kind of twilight world hovering between ours and utter fancy. It think mythopoeia is rare -- often confused with allegory or with straight fantasy. The Hobbit is mythopoetic but not Percy Jackson. I think too that mythopoeia can lean one way or the other sometimes with one foot on the line separating it from allegory -- The Golden Key by MacDonald seems to flirt with the edge.
Any thoughts? I think a person without a taste for this stuff wouldn't like my work or even recognize it for what it is.
For those who do like this genre, come across anything you can recommend?


