Joseph Campbell's The Hero With A Thousand Faces was published in 1949 — a book that is simultaneously timeless, and very much of its time. IDEAS looks at the massive influence of Campbell's theory.

Claiming that The Hero's Journey is dead just after the opening weekend of Star Wars: The Force Awakens may seem a bit foolish. How could anyone question a worldwide phenomenon worth uncounted ...

Thanks to Fafa and Mario of Glove and Boots, you’ll learn about the Hero, the Herald, the Mentor and more, as they work in Star Wars, Harry Potter, The Hobbit, and more.

Joseph Campbell circa 1982. Wikimedia Commons. This resulted in numerous publications, including the books The Mythic Image (1974), The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), and with journalist Bill ...

Key points. Combining Campbell's hero's journey with Seligman's PERMA model enables a deeper look at human well-being. The "monomyth" parallels people's internal transformations, intertwining with ...

Joseph Campbell, an American mythologist who studied myths from all over the world, created the famous Hero's Journey, a monomyth that explains how each individual goes through continuous cycles of ...

In “The Heroine With 1001 Faces,” the folklore scholar Maria Tatar explores woman-centered alternatives to Joseph Campbell’s famous template for myths and legends starring male protagonists.