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The Hero with a Thousand Faces

The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

August 16, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

It’s the book that pretty much everyone has some familiarity with, and perhaps like a lot of people, I have not read this one before. If you can imagine the huge circular diagram of the hero’s journey, not the simplified version, but the more detailed one with more archaic language, this is the book that illustrates that idea. The book itself is structured like a kind of macro ethnography. What this means to me is rather than telling a community’s story through a discussion of […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: joseph campbell

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:466 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: joseph campbell ·
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Not the Holy Grail of Writing

The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

June 25, 2022 by sabian30 Leave a Comment

Many of the DIY writing books I’ve been consuming over the last couple years mention Joseph Campbell’s extensive mythology analyses (written in 1949!), The Hero with a Thousand Faces, and credit him with inspiring them. George Lucas says Star Wars is a result of having read Campbell’s seminal work. I went into this book with the wrong expectations and was immediately disappointed. His 416-page work has little to do with writing. Although it labels all the familiar (and unfamiliar) legends from around the world, the […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Campbell, heroes, joseph campbell, mythology, Thousand Faces

sabian30's CBR14 Review No:15 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Campbell, heroes, joseph campbell, mythology, Thousand Faces ·
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Harry Potter is a Herione and Wonder Woman is a Hero

The Heroine's Journey by Gail Carriger

March 7, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader 2 Comments

Warning: this is a review of an at least partially academic book. It gets into theory-world (literary theory) pretty hard. However, it’s also very strongly based in popular culture, mostly to help make the point that the patterns of interest to certain types of theory are influential in stories and entertainment types things beyond “Literature”-with a capital L. The style of the book is also pretty low-key; this is not an insult; it is a statement that although the book tackles some pretty academic conceptual […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: gail carriger, Harry Potter, hero's journey, joseph campbell, literary theory, Maureen Murdock, Pop Culture, The Heroine's Journey, Twilight, Wonder Woman

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:20 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: gail carriger, Harry Potter, hero's journey, joseph campbell, literary theory, Maureen Murdock, Pop Culture, The Heroine's Journey, Twilight, Wonder Woman ·
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Coffee Shop’s Theory of the Trilogy

November 25, 2018 by CoffeeShopReader 2 Comments

I’m back! After finishing my committed 52 reviews, I ended up not reviewing for a while, because life etc. NB: Much of what follows is from the slightly more technical and in depth blog post concerning my attempts to explain the theory behind why part 2 of any trilogy is often the least fun or entertaining. As of now, the Dragon Lords series is a trilogy; I have no idea if the author will keep it that way or continue with further installments. I read […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: dragons, false idols, fantasy, jon hollis, joseph campbell, spaceballs, the dragon lords, the monomyth, trilogy

CoffeeShopReader's CBR10 Review No:53 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: dragons, false idols, fantasy, jon hollis, joseph campbell, spaceballs, the dragon lords, the monomyth, trilogy ·
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