“Composed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival is the re-creation and completion of the story left unfinished by its initiator Chrétien de Troyes. It follows Parzival from his boyhood and career as a knight in the court…
You Are a Heroine introduces the Hero’s Journey schema to women who haven’t read Joseph Campbell and who don’t know that the powerful journey model applies to their life just as much as it does to the lives of our…
This book offers critical-interpretative essays on various aspects of the work of Joseph Campbell. It focuses on Campbell, the scope of his career, or his general point of view. The book discusses in depth and details specific questions, subjects, or…
Have you ever wondered why people love hero stories so much? The Hero’s Guidebook will tell you the secret reason we find heroes so exciting and inspirational! Humorously illustrated with over 40 cartoons by the author, this book takes readers…
Interested in exploring the Hero’s Journey™️ in the World of Minecraft®? Microsoft has added a Hero’s Journey™️ adventure map. Find numerous puzzles, levels, and activities at studio.code.org
This classroom game, based on concepts from the Hero’s Journey by Joseph Campbell as presented in his groundbreaking book The Hero with a Thousand Faces, asks students to create their own hero quest. In groups of two, students will create…
Synopsis: This examination of the heroic journey in world mythology casts the protagonist as a personification of nature–a “botanical hero” one might say–who begins the quest in a metaphorical seed-like state, then sprouts into a period of verdant strength. But…
More than an academic study of the rock band U2 and its fan community, Myth, Fan Culture, and the Popular Appeal of Liminality in the Music of U2: A Love Story is a meditation on the complex character of love.…
American Bill Markham (Powers Boothe) has taken his family to the jungles of Brazil, where he has been hired to design a dam. Unexpectedly, a native tribe abducts his son, Tommy (Charley Boorman). Bill spends an entire decade looking for…
Although the courser doesn’t appear to be offered currently, we came across this interesting application of the Hero’s Journey to the orientation of college freshmen. “At California State University, Fresno, all incoming students take a full-semester, three-unit course that includes…
Boss Level uses the idea of “leveling up” a character in an video game to show teens and young adults HOW to HACK life’s greatest QUEST: their CAREER. Many teens are uniformed about HOW to make it as an adult…
The “Star Wars: The Magic of Myth” exhibition closed at the National Air and Space Museum on January 31, 1999. This online exhibition will remain available for an indefinite period of time. For over 100 years, science fiction stories and…
Set in a fantastical medieval Japan, Miyazaki’s original story envisions a struggle between nature and man. The march of technology, embodied in the dark iron forges of the ambitious Tatara clan, threatens the natural forces explicit in the benevolent Great…
Murdock traces her journey from rejection of the feminine in order to “succeed” in a masculine world; through discovery of the inadequacy of “success”; through a dark night of the soul and a killing of masculine divine images; to a…
In a work of wide-ranging scope and insight, Le Grice analyzes myths, religious texts, and scenes from a number of popular films–Jason and the Argonauts, Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, and more–to illuminate the archetypal stages and themes…
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