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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Monomyth"”.
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Katniss and the Monomyth: Constructing Gender Identity in the Hunger Games
… and should be incorporated into the study of the monomyth.
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Beyond the Monomyth: Jung and the Children's Book in the Adult Imagination
Abstract: ‘Beyond the Monomyth: Jung and the Children’s Book in the Adult Imagination’, Andrew Peter McCormack I developed my interest in Jungian theory and children’s literature when I began investigating literature which embeds the children’s book within adult storyworlds. My meta-level analysis …
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Superman's Ancestors - Beowulf, Odysseus and Roy Hobbs: Application and Analysis of Joseph Campbell's Monomyth Theory
… This thesis will apply Campbell’s monomyth theory to literary classics such as <em>Beowulf</em>, Homer’s <em>The Odyssey</em> and Malamud’s <em>The Natural</em>. These diverse pieces will test Campbell’s theory and will reveal if the Hero’s Journey can withstand the test of not only …
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The use of narrative in order to break the masculine domination of the hero quest
… to construct a universal hero journey - the monomyth. Drawing on the works of Carl Jung, Campbell gave the monomyth a psychological dimension, suggesting that its universality resulted from its function in guiding men and women through major life transitions. The main elements and motifs of …
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Darth Bane : The Monomyth's Dark Liberator
Darth Bane: The Monomyth's Dark Liberator is an original thesis based on Joseph Campbell's theory of the monomyth and Drew Karpyshyn's Darth Bane Trilogy. Campbell's theory of the monomyth has most commonly been called the hero's journey. For many years, the archetypal hero has been thought to be …
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The Kingdom Falls
… captain of the watch in an attempt to create a monomyth of the kingdom itself rather than any one central character. This deconstruction of the traditional monomyth comes with various other deconstructions. Preceding the novel is a critical introduction in which the author discusses the …
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Monomitas. Animacinis video kūrinys „Migla“ /
… is being attained by examining the theory of monomyth and its use, discussing the connection between the monomyth and the bildungsroman genre, analyzing works that use the monomyth’s narrative structure. The attained theoretical knowledge is applied in the creative project. The creative …
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Starkin
… internal rebirth. Within Campbell‘s study of the monomyth, using those conventions outlined by Campbell, I will show how Tolkien elements uses Campbell‘s conventions in Middle Earth, where a simple young hobbit ends up saving his world. In traditional fantasy, the stories most often follow …
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Elements of ritual, myth, and subversion in works of Graphic Medicine
… and cultural connections between comics, ritual, monomyth, and quest in the context of an emerging field that has come to be known as Graphic Medicine. It will demonstrate the way in which these different forms deal with experiences of embodiment, space, memory, and time, with an emphasis on the …
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Why I Killed the Draft Horse: The Golden Bough, Robert Frost, and "Progress"
… strange and neglected poem as a return to a monomyth offered by James Frazer's hugely influential <em>The Golden Bough</em>. In "The Draft Horse," Frost reconsiders the concept of ceremonial sacrifice that undergirds Frazer's encyclopedic study of world culture and, by performing ceremony as …
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The Tripartite Tributaries of Ush
… alien, demonstrating Campbell’s notion of the monomyth as well as the ongoing tradition of mythmaking that continues to captivate both readers and writers. The metafictional portion of the text emphasizes a reader’s relationship to a work of fiction, a scholar’s relationship to his or her …
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Jesus, Socrates, and the State: Political Mythology and Power
… Jesus as heroes (in Campbell's sense of the <em>monomyth<em>) and the gifts which each gives to the world (i.e. their consonant messages of egalitarian rule, equality of the sexes, living a good life and nonviolent civil disobedience). </em></em></p>
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Of glory obscur'd : beatific vision in the narratives of Jack Kerouac
… for a lost Eden, an initiation rite, and a monomyth, the single pattern of the journey quest which underlies all myth.The final seven chapters develop the beatific aesthetic as it patterns the Duluoz Legend through the key novels of Kerouac in specific terms of myth and archetype. Chapter …
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Beyond postmodernism: London fiction at the millennium
… writers' characterization in terms of the heroic monomyth as described by Joseph Campbell. In Chapter Two this takes the form of an analysis of the work of male writers writing male protagonists. By comparing the earlier novels of Kureishi and Thomson to their later work, along with an analysis of …
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New light on E.E. Cummings' drama, Him
… of the play. 1 t is a logo of Him as a universal monomyth. 2. Extensive references that key the acts and scenes of Him to twelve noted psychological sources.Chapter Four: 1. Explication of the twenty-one scenes in order (100 pp.) on four planes or levels: Freudian, Jungian archetypal theory, …
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The Cretan Glance : The Syncretic Spirit in the Novels of Nikos Kazantzakis
… further the Kazantzakian frame of reference. The monomyth or hero cycle is found to apply in all of the novels under consideration, with emphases which illuminate Kazantzakis' evolutionary and vitalisticallv spiritual philosophy. The novels, read together as a single work, are seen as a single …
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Great Expectations: The Role of Myth in 1980s Films with Child Heroes
This study performed a mythic analysis on three films with child heroes including E.T.—the Extra-Terrestrial, Stand by Me, and The Goonies. Several unifying themes were extracted and then compared with the dominant values of Reagan America to determine if these films provided a unique cultural …
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The Object of My Abduction
This thesis is presented in three parts. The first part is a movie script for a full-length feature film. The second part is a critical analysis of said movie script compared in both structure and content to classical models presented in literary works such as Joseph Campbell's "The Hero with a …