monomythic

It would have to do so without succumbing to the commercial and narrative imperatives toward easy answers, pat moralising and monomythic pandering.

Archive 2009-04-01 Hal Duncan 2009

It would have to do so without succumbing to the commercial and narrative imperatives toward easy answers, pat moralising and monomythic pandering.

Kings Hal Duncan 2009

Where excursion and incursion fantasies seem to have a pretty binary relationship coded into their black-and-white politics of polders and prisons, monomythic heroes and horrorific menaces, the isolation and infusion fantasies offer a different duality, situating themselves as end-points on a spectrum of granularity, a range of "fine" or "coarse" quiltings of realms and seams.

Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008

Where excursion and incursion fantasies seem to have a pretty binary relationship coded into their black-and-white politics of polders and prisons, monomythic heroes and horrorific menaces, the isolation and infusion fantasies offer a different duality, situating themselves as end-points on a spectrum of granularity, a range of "fine" or "coarse" quiltings of realms and seams.

Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams Hal Duncan 2008

I tend to prefer Mass Effect - I think the villains in particular were way more interesting Saren, for instance, carried the first game - in that the monomythic structure Bioware consistently follows seems much more fresh in a SF setting, rather than fantasy.

Richard Morgan on writing SF for video games Adam Whitehead 2010

So we get narratives structured as monomythic quest, power-struggle saga, episodic mission or cryptic thriller.

Of Genres and Sub-Genres Hal Duncan 2008

I've mentioned the American monomythic superhero, before.

The Hog's Head 2009

It would have to do so without succumbing to the commercial and narrative imperatives toward easy answers, pat moralising and monomythic pandering.

Notes From The Geek Show 2009

We can and should distinguish the Heroes of monomythic Epic from the Heroes, heroes, anti-heroes and reluctant-heroes of Stories less grand in scope, but in doing so I think we begin to see where Clute's narrative grammar of Fantasy merges into those of SF and Horror, how he is focusing on the more grandiose incarnations of the hero when it comes to the former, sliding his definition of it towards the Epic/Adventure end of a sort of spectrum of narrative structures in order to map that spectrum onto the three genres.

A Follow Up Hal Duncan 2008

We can and should distinguish the Heroes of monomythic Epic from the Heroes, heroes, anti-heroes and reluctant-heroes of Stories less grand in scope, but in doing so I think we begin to see where Clute's narrative grammar of Fantasy merges into those of SF and Horror, how he is focusing on the more grandiose incarnations of the hero when it comes to the former, sliding his definition of it towards the Epic/Adventure end of a sort of spectrum of narrative structures in order to map that spectrum onto the three genres.

Archive 2008-02-01 Hal Duncan 2008