BOUNDARIES OF THE SOUL

Finally, during the twentieth century contemporary literary proponents of
mythopoeic thought emerged; literary greats such as Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia
Marquez, Thomas Pynchon and Michael Tournier (Baigent and Leigh, 1997:xx).
Their writing exhibits the unique and distinguishing features of the Gnostic genre,
the most important of which is a recognition of something hidden, something non-
physical, a psychic elsewhere but which constitutes an isomorphism with the
material world. These women and men, whose work reflects this meta-narrative, I
call mythopoeic writers. I t is their work and this meta-narrative that we must now
examine, empirically and textually in Part I I and by way of extended discussion and
elaboration in Part I I I.
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