| 释义 |
remyˈthologize, v.
[re- 5 b, after demythologize v.]
trans. To provide with a new mythological system; to reinterpret the elements of (an older mythology) in terms of a newer one. Hence remythologiˈzation.
1964K. G. Grubb Layman looks at Church v. 156 The Bible..has to be ‘demythologised’ and then remythologised. 1973R. Slotkin Regeneration through Violence ii. 36 Both [myth and art] serve as means of ordering and explaining a chaotic and threatening environment. The remythologization of the West began with attempts by French and Spanish Jesuits and English Puritans to order the chaos of the New World. 1974Canadian-Amer. Slavic Stud. VIII. 492 The updating, transformation and ‘remythologization’ of these legends constituted a form of justification of the validity of their world-view. 1976H. Montefiore in Christian Believing 148, I may expect to ‘translate’ or ‘remythologize’ its thought forms and imagery. |