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The Monomyth (The Hero's Journey): Narrative Writing Tool
Practical Applications of the Monomyth
There are many different ways that the Monomyth can be used in narrative creation, as well as in real world application. Here are several links to (mainly) scholarly articles discussing its use.
- Screenwriting: Christopher Vogler's The Writer's Journey, and his foreward to the book Myth and the Movies, by Stuart Voytilla
- Presentations: Nancy Durate's Audience's Journey
- Comparative Religion: James J. Dillon's The Primal Vision: The Psychological Effects of Creation Myth
- Teaching: Kenneth W. Davis & Scott R. Weeden's Teacher as trickster on the learner's journey
- Research: City University of New York (CUNY)'s Choose Your Own Adventure: The Hero's Journey and the Research Process
- Instructional Design: Brad Hokanson & Robert Fraher's Narrative Structure, Myth, and Cognition for Instructional Design
- Management Workshops: Gameslab University of Applied Sciences' Digital Games and the Hero's Journey in Management Workshops and Tertiary Education
- Counselor Supervisor Training: Jason Thomas Duffy & Douglas A. Guffrida's The Heroic Supervisor: Using the Hero's Journey to Facilitate Development in Supervisors-in-Training
- Psychological: Robert Atkinson's Life Stories and Personal Mythmaking
- Literary Analysis: Farid Mohammadi's Mythic Frodo and his Predestinate Call to Adventure
- Heroine as Hero Analysis: Carl B. Yoke's Slaying the Dragon Within: Andre Norton's Female Heroes
- Last Updated: Dec 9, 2022 12:30 PM
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