Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits of metaphoric thought. In a fully mature literary tradition the writerenters intoa structure of traditional stories and images.

-Frye, Northrop
The Bush Garden,'Conclusion'.

What counted was the mythology of self, Blotched out beyond unblotching.

-Stevens,Wallace
  Harmonium,'The Comedian as the Letter C', pt.1.