Reawakening the Myth: Retelling the Hero Journey in Percy Jackson and the Olympians

The hero journey as theorised by Joseph Campbell in 1949 in The Hero With A Thousand Faces (reprinted 1993) has informed and influenced mainstream storytelling for more than half a century. In Campbell’s work, it is argued that the mythologies of the world all share essential features, and could the...

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Main Author: Leighton, Alexander
Other Authors: Brown, Molly
Language:en
Published: University of Pretoria 2021
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2263/79268
Leighton, A 2013, Reawakening the Myth: Retelling the Hero Journey in Percy Jackson and the Olympians, MA Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/79268>