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Heroic Journey

May 4th, 2009 · 8 Comments

This year,  my class focused on the concept of the heroic journey and how it forms the basis for many of our stories.  First, students wrestled to understand the Monomyth chapter in Joseph Campbell’s A Hero with a Thousand Faces.  Campbell retells the story of Buddha as the basis for his monomyth example.  He also references Jason, Aeneas, [...]

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