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  2. 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.

  3. The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  4. Joseph Campbell - Wikipedia

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    Campbell's concept of monomyth (one myth) refers to the theory that sees all mythic narratives as variations of a single great story. The theory is based on the observation that a common pattern exists beneath the narrative elements of most great myths, regardless of their origin or time of creation.

  5. The American Monomyth - Wikipedia

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    The American Monomyth is a 1977 book by Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence arguing for the existence and cultural importance of an 'American Monomyth', a variation on the classical monomyth as proposed by Joseph Campbell.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Narrative thread - Wikipedia

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    A classic structure of narrative thread often used in both fiction and non-fiction writing is the monomyth, or hero's journey, with a beginning, a middle, and an end. First, typically the harmony of daily life is broken by a particularly dramatic event that leads into the main story.

  8. Quest - Wikipedia

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    The quest, in the form of the hero's journey, plays a central role in the monomyth described by Joseph Campbell; the hero sets forth from the world of common day into a land of adventures, tests, and magical rewards. Most times in a quest, the knight in shining armor wins the heart of a beautiful maiden/princess.

  9. Monomyth - Wikipedia

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    Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Monomyth