Bridging social change through mythic regeneration

Monstrous youth in suburbia: Disruption and recovery of the American dream

“…Rushing and Frentz (1991) suggest that ideological discourse is situated within myth and provide a case study of the movie "Jaws" (Frentz and Rushing, 1993) to describe how such myths appear within popular culture. Additional studies of myths as forms of ideological discourse include those explored by Lee and Lee (1998), O'Brien (1996), and Proctor (1992). These scholars describe how myths guide social life by making make structural solutions to social problems seem natural and inevitable.…”

The rhetoric of Hindu nationalism: A narrative of mythic redefinition

“…As noted earlier, Eliade has described the power of myths in many cultures to make present the perfection of a past time. David Procter (1992) is getting at this point when he notes that "mythic rhetoric has the ability to bind past and future together, to contextualize changing social conditions within an overarching persona of a nation" (p. 179). In the Hindu mythic narrative, people return to and relive the perfection of the past and bring to the present the power of that narrative.…”

A Mythic Perspective of Commodification on the World Wide Web

“…Just as in the late 1800s the rapidly vanishing wilderness led Americans to shift their concept from a geographic frontier to an economic one (Procter, 1992), corporations have altered their approach toward commodification. Hassan (1999) states that finite geographic space has led them to take commodification into "identity spaces" of culture and society.…”

“…Procter (1992) states that symbolism in myths can be adjusted to meet changes in society, especially in times of crisis and chaos. Termed "mythic regeneration," the phenomenon allows national myths to sustain the ethos of a nation, yet evolve to encompass the changing social conditions.…”

“…States from a geographic one to a frontier of economics (Procter, 1992). Since that time, the U.S. has grown to be the leading economic power in the world.…”