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- noun mythology a
cyclical journey orquest undertaken by amythical hero
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In Bone, the monomyth is encased in what has come to be called the high fantasy epic.
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In Bone, the monomyth is encased in what has come to be called the high fantasy epic.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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The documentary Finding Joe, directed by Patrick Takaya Solomon, is a heart warming and inspired retelling of Joseph Campbell's iconic Hero's Journey, one that lucidly walks us through perhaps the archetype of archetypes, the diagram for self-realization and psychological illumination known as the monomyth.
Jason Silva: Finding Joe Documentary Reminds Us of Our Hero's Journey Jason Silva 2011
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The documentary Finding Joe, directed by Patrick Takaya Solomon, is a heart warming and inspired retelling of Joseph Campbell's iconic Hero's Journey, one that lucidly walks us through perhaps the archetype of archetypes, the diagram for self-realization and psychological illumination known as the monomyth.
Jason Silva: Finding Joe Documentary Reminds Us of Our Hero's Journey Jason Silva 2011
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Campbell took what had been also described as the monomyth -- the universal story, told with the same basic pattern, by every culture, about the journey of the hero.
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Campbell took what had been also described as the monomyth -- the universal story, told with the same basic pattern, by every culture, about the journey of the hero.
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Campbell took what had been also described as the monomyth -- the universal story, told with the same basic pattern, by every culture, about the journey of the hero.
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Campbell took what had been also described as the monomyth -- the universal story, told with the same basic pattern, by every culture, about the journey of the hero.
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Campbell took what had been also described as the monomyth -- the universal story, told with the same basic pattern, by every culture, about the journey of the hero.
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At the same time the game continues to explore the idea of monomyth, this time incorporating the influences of the Norse mythology into its narrative.
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Campbell famously and rather rapturously identified the “monomyth”: the single great life-giving story that expresses itself in endless variations through the legendarium of every tribe and culture.
Joseph Campbell’s Woman Problem James Parker 2022
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Campbell called the hero’s journey the ‘monomyth’, a term he borrowed from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake (1939) – a novel that exemplified it for Campbell and which, tellingly, is also considered to be a poster child for experimental fiction.
Why does every film and TV series seem to have the same plot? | Aeon Essays 2025
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Campbell called the hero’s journey the ‘monomyth’, a term he borrowed from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake (1939) – a novel that exemplified it for Campbell and which, tellingly, is also considered to be a poster child for experimental fiction.
Why does every film and TV series seem to have the same plot? | Aeon Essays 2025
bilby commented on the word monomyth
There's quite a lengthy discussion on Wikipedia about the monomyth, its components and variations.
December 24, 2012
qms commented on the word monomyth
A device to decipher a story with,
To break through the shell into the pith,
Is to look for signs
That the plot aligns
To the classical course of the monomyth.
June 16, 2014