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  2. Hero's journey - Wikipedia

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    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. Monomyth - Wikipedia

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  4. The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Wikipedia

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    The similarities of these myths brought Campbell to write his book in which he details the structure of the monomyth. He calls the motif of the archetypal narrative, "the hero's adventure". In a well-known passage from the introduction to The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell summarizes the monomyth:

  5. Hero - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 December 2024. Person or character who combats adversity through ingenuity, courage, or strength "Heroism" and "Heroine" redirect here. For the film, see Heroism (film). For other uses, see Hero (disambiguation), Heroine (disambiguation), and Heroes (disambiguation). The examples and perspective in ...

  6. Joseph Campbell - Wikipedia

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    Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American writer. He was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion.

  7. John Shelton Lawrence - Wikipedia

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    The major contribution of The American Monomyth is a re-thinking of Joseph Campbell's famous classical monomyth from his 1949 book The Hero With a Thousand Faces. Campbell's monomyth described a universal narrative of the myth of the hero's journey which he claimed had disappeared in contemporary culture.

  8. The American Monomyth - Wikipedia

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    In contrast, Jewett and Lawrence define the American monomyth as: A community in a harmonious paradise is threatened by evil; normal institutions fail to contend with this threat; a selfless superhero emerges to renounce temptations and carry out the redemptive task; aided by fate, his decisive victory restores the community to its paradisiacal ...

  9. In Praise of Polytheism - Wikipedia

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    According to Marquard, the chief example of a monomyth is that of world history as progress toward emancipation. This myth emerged in the mid-18th century philosophy of history and turned "histories" into the singular "history". [19] Marquard calls it the second end of polymythical thinking; the first was the end of religious polytheism.