You Are a Heroine: A Retelling of the Hero’s Journey
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...
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USES OF COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY: Essays on the Work of Joseph Campbell
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...
The Hero’s Guidebook: Creating Your Own Hero’s Journey
Education / High School / Middle School / Resource
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...
Minecraft® Hero’s Journey™️ Interactive Game Software
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/hero.
Hero Quest Classroom Game
Education / Gifts / Games / High School / Middle School
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...
The Hero’s Quest and the Cycles of Nature: An Ecological Interpretation of World Mythology
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...
Myth, Fan Culture, and the Popular Appeal of Liminality in the Music of U2: A Love Story
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...
The Emerald Forest
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...
A Hero’s Journey: A Freshman Orientation Challenge Course Program
Archive / Collection / College / Education / Resource
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...
Boss Level: How to Hack Your Way to the Top of Your Career
College / Education / High School / Resource
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...