Mythologizing

Westerns are known for mythologizing historical figures, but "Tombstone" and "Bone Tomahawk" brings the Western down to sandy earth, even if they both still embrace extravagance in the end.

But this self-mythologizing didn’t just serve a purpose in his career; it has cemented his place in a canon.

This critique isn’t about how monstrous the real Columbus was or the film’s gross mythologizing of historical atrocities—it’s simply a dull, uninspired movie with nothing meaningful to say.

Akutagawa seemingly debunks this fantastical narrative, before acutely suggesting that when it comes to mythologizing history, the Japan of Akutagawa’s age had little to learn from the Korean Peninsula or anywhere else.

Just as important is will the country ever be able to save itself from mythologizing violence at all levels of society?

Within the pages of his Introduction to the Chelsea House edition on Percy Shelley, Harold Bloom also identifies the six major schools of criticism opposing Shelley's idealized mythologizing version of the Prometheus myth.