While He upholds the myth of Puerto Rico as island paradise and tropical tourist destination, then, She works to
demythify it, directly naming the role of Puerto Rico in her own psychological turmoil:
criticisms and law have attempted to "
demythify" the image of
Various concepts abound, including 'cosmopolitanism', 'multiculturalism', the blurring of generic boundaries, the need to '
demythify and re-mythify Scotland's past', and the erasure of national sensibilities due to the advances of cybercommunication and the advent of globalisation.
It will
demythify the claim of any community of meaning to speak for the whole of humanity.
It's curious to find then, in Barber, an attempt to
demythify this substrate through a scientific re-reading of "data" present in vampiric folklore accounts that shows "the vampire" to be the name given to very concrete, historically specific (if geographically and temporally scattered) problems.
Se trata, mas bien, de un retrato de su peculiar condicion operativa" (17), the essays in this collection carefully comb over texts that in a sense
demythify the global urban space as a site of impending and unavoidable Western modernization and its subsequent operative chaos.
I would have had to bring in the heavy artillery in order to
demythify the Stones, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, or the Doors, you know, the legendary bands.
Peter Berger thus described the trilemma of contemporary Christians: one can retreat into world-denying fundamentalism, one can embrace science and thoroughly
demythify religion, or one can attempt some sort of compromise position.
Even though he acknowledges that works of "ultra-violence" may work to
demythify violence, enabling viewers access to the truth of real violence, the problem with many contemporary serial-murder films is that they do not offer such modernist distanciation; instead, they trivialize or undermine the seriousness with which violence ought to be regarded.
"Running on Empty," Browne says, "was about trying to
demythify rock and roll, the experience.