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The <a href="/wiki/Talk:Mythic_fiction" title="Talk:Mythic fiction">talk page</a> may contain suggestions.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">February 2024</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Fantasy" title="Fantasy">Fantasy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mythology" class="mw-redirect" title="Mythology">Mythology</a></div> <p><b>Mythic fiction</b> is literature that draws from the tropes, themes, and symbolism of <a href="/wiki/Myth" title="Myth">myth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Legend" title="Legend">legend</a>, <a href="/wiki/Folklore" title="Folklore">folklore</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Fairy_tale" title="Fairy tale">fairy tales</a>. It is usually set in the real world and deals with realistic issues, but a mythic atmosphere prevails; however, not all mythic fiction is fantasy, and the fantastic component is not always blatant. Mythic fiction ranges from retellings of fairy tales to stories based on myths to those loosely inspired by myth and legend, using their motifs to create new stories.<sup id="cite_ref-CEYAL_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CEYAL-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-EndicottList_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EndicottList-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The term was invented by <a href="/wiki/Charles_de_Lint" title="Charles de Lint">Charles de Lint</a> and <a href="/wiki/Terri_Windling" title="Terri Windling">Terri Windling</a> to describe their own work;<sup id="cite_ref-CEYAL_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CEYAL-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> de Lint has said that it fit because of its resonances and because it could reach a wider audience.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Windling promoted mythic fiction as the co-editor (with <a href="/wiki/Ellen_Datlow" title="Ellen Datlow">Ellen Datlow</a>) of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Year%27s_Best_Fantasy_and_Horror" title="The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror">The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror</a></i> volumes for sixteen years, and as the editor of the <a href="/wiki/Endicott_Studio" title="Endicott Studio">Endicott Studio</a>'s <i>Journal of Mythic Arts</i>. </p><p>Mythic fiction overlaps with <a href="/wiki/Urban_fantasy" title="Urban fantasy">urban fantasy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Contemporary_fantasy" title="Contemporary fantasy">contemporary fantasy</a>, and the terms are sometimes used interchangeably, but mythic fiction also includes contemporary works in non-urban settings. Mythic fiction also differs from <a href="/wiki/Magic_realism" class="mw-redirect" title="Magic realism">magic realism</a>, as magic realist texts may use surreal or random symbolism in preference to symbolism drawing on myth and legend.<sup id="cite_ref-CEYAL_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CEYAL-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mythpunk">Mythpunk</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mythic_fiction&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Mythpunk"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="Mythpunk"></span> Author <a href="/wiki/Catherynne_M._Valente" title="Catherynne M. Valente">Catherynne M. Valente</a> uses the term <b>mythpunk</b> to describe a subgenre of mythic fiction that starts in folklore and myth and adds elements of <a href="/wiki/Postmodernism" title="Postmodernism">postmodernist</a> literary techniques.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Valente coined the term in a 2006 blog post as a joke for describing her own and other works of challenging folklore-based fantasy.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In particular, it uses aspects of folklore to subvert or question dominant <a href="/wiki/Norm_(social)" class="mw-redirect" title="Norm (social)">societal norms</a>, often bringing in a <a href="/wiki/Feminism" title="Feminism">feminist</a> and/or multicultural approach. It confronts, instead of conforms to, societal norms.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Valente describes mythpunk as breaking "mythologies that defined a universe where women, <a href="/wiki/Queer" title="Queer">queer</a> folk, <a href="/wiki/Person_of_color" title="Person of color">people of color</a>, people who deviate from the norm were invisible or never existed" and then "piecing it back together to make something strange and different and wild."<sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Typically, mythpunk narratives focus on transforming folkloric source material rather than retelling it, often through postmodern <a href="/wiki/Literary_techniques" class="mw-redirect" title="Literary techniques">literary techniques</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Nonlinear_narrative" title="Nonlinear narrative">non-linear storytelling</a>, <a href="/wiki/Worldbuilding" title="Worldbuilding">worldbuilding</a>, <a href="/wiki/Confessional_poetry" title="Confessional poetry">confessional poetry</a>, as well as modern <a href="/wiki/Linguistics" title="Linguistics">linguistic</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_narrative_techniques" title="List of narrative techniques">literary devices</a>. The use of folklore is especially important because folklore is "often a battleground between subversive and conservative forces", according to speculative fiction writer <a href="/wiki/Amal_El-Mohtar" title="Amal El-Mohtar">Amal El-Mohtar</a>, and a medium for constructing new societal norms. Through postmodern literary techniques, mythpunk authors change the structures and traditions of folklore, "negotiating—and validating—different norms."<sup id="cite_ref-:1_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Most works of mythpunk have been published by <a href="/wiki/Small_press" title="Small press">small presses</a>, such as <i><a href="/wiki/Strange_Horizons" title="Strange Horizons">Strange Horizons</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> because "anything playing out on the edge is going to have truck with the small presses at some point, because small presses take big risks."<sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Writers whose works would fall under the mythpunk label include <a href="/wiki/Ekaterina_Sedia" title="Ekaterina Sedia">Ekaterina Sedia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Theodora_Goss" title="Theodora Goss">Theodora Goss</a>, <a href="/wiki/Neil_Gaiman" title="Neil Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sonya_Taaffe" title="Sonya Taaffe">Sonya Taaffe</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Adam_Christopher" title="Adam Christopher">Adam Christopher</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Valente's novel <i><a href="/wiki/Deathless_(novel)" title="Deathless (novel)">Deathless</a></i> is an example of mythpunk, drawing from classic <a href="/wiki/Folklore_of_Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="Folklore of Russia">Russian folklore</a> to tell the tale of <a href="/wiki/Koshchei" title="Koshchei">Koschei the Deathless</a> from a female perspective.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span 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