In this essay, I address Part I, Chapter I, The Adventure of the Hero: Departure, of Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces.[1] In particular, I focus my analysis on four key elements of the Departure stage; these being The Call to Adventure, Refusal of the Call,
The wonderful thing about having a backstage pass to the Green Room at the Hay Festival is that you are never entirely sure who you might run into. When James (James Paxton Priestley, Editor-in-Chief of GossamerWight Literary Magazine) and I whizzed off to Hay two years ago for a two-day
In this essay, I explore how adoption of the graphic novel form by the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel for her 2006 autography Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic allowed her, I contend, to create a narrative with a deeper, more nuanced message than that possible in prose form alone.[1] Of
Introduction
In one of the most well-known high fantasy adventure novels of all time, The Lord of the Rings by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, The Lady Galadriel says about the Ring passing out of knowledge that ‘History (of it) became legend, legend became myth.’ We give legend and myth oral
