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What About the Heroine’s Journey?

By Gal Beckerman — 2021

The Harvard scholar Maria Tatar has made a career of studying fairy tales and folklore. Now she is taking aim at Joseph Campbell and showing us the women he left out of the story.

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The Hero’s Journey: The Idea You Never Knew Had Shaped “Star Wars”

Campbell’s monomyth has been criticised for being Eurocentric and patriarchal. But it has a more significant problem, in that Campbell was wrong. There is not one pure archetypal story at the heart of human storytelling.

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John Higgs
2015
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The Man Behind the Myth: Should We Question the Hero’s Journey?

Campbell claimed his theory, which has gone on to influence everything from Star Wars to Disney’s Aladdin, arose from a universal structure inherent in the global myths of antiquity. The problem is, that’s a lie. Campbell’s theory is as mythological as the stories from which it borrows.

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Sarah E. Bond, Joel Christensen
2021
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When the Heart Speaks: An Interview with Deena Metzger

Deena Metzger discusses a wide range of topics in this 1984 interview.

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Elizabeth Goode, Deena Metzger
1984
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Elena Ferrante: A Power of Our Own

Power is a story told by women. For centuries, men have colonized storytelling. That era is over.

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Elena Ferrante
2019
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Joseph Campbell Is the Hidden Link Between ‘2001,’ ‘Star Wars,’ and ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’

Mythology and the Hero’s Journey became pervasive throughout film culture and history as generation after generation turned to Joseph Campbell and The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

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Will Linn
2018
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