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mythic narrative  

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  • Mythic narratives are narratives of a particular kind. If narratives are, broadly speaking, ways of linking events, mythic narratives are successions of events that grant them not simply meaning but also significance. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Theory; Mythic Narrative]

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