The Hero’s Journey in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again : Using Joseph Campbell’s Narrative Structure for an Analysis of Mythopoeic Fiction

This essay investigates the applicability of Joseph Campbell’s notion of the Hero’s Journey from his theoretical work The Hero with a Thousand Faces on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again. This has been done by outlining the essential aspects of Campbell’s theory and then performin...

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Main Author: Levin, Christoffer
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora 2016
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-21253