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  2. The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers - Wikipedia

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    The second part describes the twelve stages of the Hero's Journey. [7] The stages are: The Ordinary World: the hero is seen in their everyday life; The Call to Adventure: the initiating incident of the story; Refusal of the Call: the hero experiences some hesitation to answer the call

  3. Hero's journey - Wikipedia

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    Illustration of the hero's journey. In narratology and comparative mythology, the hero's quest or hero's journey, also known as the monomyth, is the common template of stories that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, is victorious in a decisive crisis, and comes home changed or transformed.

  4. Rank–Raglan mythotype - Wikipedia

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    The four heroes from the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West. In narratology and comparative mythology, the Rank–Raglan mythotype (sometimes called the hero archetypes) is a set of narrative patterns proposed by psychoanalyst Otto Rank and later on amateur anthropologist Lord Raglan that lists different cross-cultural traits often found in the accounts of heroes, including ...

  5. The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Wikipedia

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    "Initiation" refers to the hero's adventures that will test him along the way. The last part of the monomyth is the "Return", which follows the hero's journey home. Campbell studied religious, spiritual, mythological and literary classics including the stories of Osiris, Prometheus, the Buddha, Moses, Mohammed, and Jesus. The book cites the ...

  6. Christopher Vogler - Wikipedia

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    The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure For Writers The Lion King Christopher Vogler (born 1949) is a Hollywood development executive , screenwriter, author and educator, best known for working with Disney and his screenwriting guide, The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure For Writers , from 2007.

  7. Joseph Campbell - Wikipedia

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    In the 1987 documentary Joseph Campbell: A Hero's Journey, he explains God in terms of a metaphor: God is a metaphor for a mystery that absolutely transcends all human categories of thought, even the categories of being and non-being. Those are categories of thought. I mean it's as simple as that. So it depends on how much you want to think ...

  8. Heroine's journey - Wikipedia

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    In storytelling, the heroine's journey is a female-centric version of the traditional hero's journey template. One origin of the idea is Maureen Murdock's 1990- book The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness; Murdock is a Jungian psychotherapist and a student of Joseph Campbell. She developed the guide while working with her female ...

  9. Katabasis - Wikipedia

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    A katabasis is arguably a specific type of the famous Hero's journey. In the Hero's journey, the hero travels to a forbidden, unknown realm; a katabasis is when that place is specifically the underworld. Pilar Serrano uses the term to encompass brief or chronic stays in the underworld as well, such as those of Lazarus, and Castor and Pollux. [1]