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Myth, Legend, Fairy Tale

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 24.01.04

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Heroes, Past and Present: Restaging the Hero’s Journey

Dan Croteau

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Notes

¹ Eric A. Havelock, The Muse Learns to Write (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1967).

² Eric A. Havelock, The Muse Learns to Write (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1967).

³ Zaretta Hammond and Yvette Jackson, Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students (Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin, a SAGE Company, 2015).

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⁵ Jack Jones, “Otto Rank: A Forgotten Heresy,” Commentary Magazine, September 3, 2015, https://www.commentary.org/articles/jack-jones/otto-rank-a-forgotten-heresy/.

⁶ Carrie Keller, “Otto Rank (1884–1939),” Embryo Project Encyclopedia, August 12, 2019, https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/otto-rank-1884-1939.

⁷ Carrie Keller, “Otto Rank (1884–1939),” Embryo Project Encyclopedia, August 12, 2019, https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/otto-rank-1884-1939.

⁸ Brian Martis, “Otto Rank,” Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed July 28, 2024, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Otto-Rank.

⁹ Carrie Keller, “Otto Rank (1884–1939),” Embryo Project Encyclopedia, August 12, 2019, https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/otto-rank-1884-1939.

¹⁰ Brian Martis, “Otto Rank,” Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed July 28, 2024, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Otto-Rank.

¹¹ Carrie Keller, “Otto Rank (1884–1939),” Embryo Project Encyclopedia, August 12, 2019, https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/otto-rank-1884-1939.

¹² Brian Martis, “Otto Rank,” Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed July 28, 2024, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Otto-Rank.

¹³ Brian Martis, “Otto Rank,” Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed July 28, 2024, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Otto-Rank.

¹⁴ Bill Stifler, Otto Rank: The myth of the birth of the hero, November 28, 2019, https://www.billstifler.org/myth/files/4D-003-1-Rank.htm.

¹⁵ Jeremy MacClancy, “Making Space for the Incisive but Idiosyncratic : A Biography of Lord Raglan - Berose,” Berose, 2018, https://www.berose.fr/article1593.html?lang=fr.

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¹⁷ Jeremy MacClancy, “Making Space for the Incisive but Idiosyncratic : A Biography of Lord Raglan - Berose,” Berose, 2018, https://www.berose.fr/article1593.html?lang=fr.

¹⁸ Jeremy MacClancy, “Making Space for the Incisive but Idiosyncratic : A Biography of Lord Raglan - Berose,” Berose, 2018, https://www.berose.fr/article1593.html?lang=fr.

¹⁹ CG Fewston, “The Hero: A Study in Tradition, Myth and Drama (1936) by Lord Raglan,” CG FEWSTON, May 4, 2013, https://cgfewston.me/2013/05/04/the-hero-a-study-in-tradition-myth-and-drama/.

²⁰ CG Fewston, “The Hero: A Study in Tradition, Myth and Drama (1936) by Lord Raglan,” CG FEWSTON, May 4, 2013, https://cgfewston.me/2013/05/04/the-hero-a-study-in-tradition-myth-and-drama/.

²¹ “Joseph Campbell,” New World Encyclopedia, accessed May 29, 2024, https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Joseph_Campbell.

²² Andrew Isles, “Joseph Campbell - Local Educator and Global Storyteller,” The Yonkers Ledger, April 9, 2023, https://www.theyonkersledger.com/history/joseph-campbell-local-educator-and-global-storyteller/3140/.

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²⁴ “About Joseph Campbell,” Joseph Campbell Foundation, accessed May 29, 2024, https://www.jcf.org/learn/joseph-campbell-biography.

²⁵ Andrew Isles, “Joseph Campbell - Local Educator and Global Storyteller,” The Yonkers Ledger, April 9, 2023, https://www.theyonkersledger.com/history/joseph-campbell-local-educator-and-global-storyteller/3140/.

²⁶ “Joseph Campbell,” New World Encyclopedia, accessed May 29, 2024, https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Joseph_Campbell.

²⁷ Andrew Isles, “Joseph Campbell - Local Educator and Global Storyteller,” The Yonkers Ledger, April 9, 2023, https://www.theyonkersledger.com/history/joseph-campbell-local-educator-and-global-storyteller/3140/.

²⁸ Joel Christensen and Sarah E. Bond, “The Man behind the Myth: Should We Question the Hero’s Journey?” Los Angeles Review of Books, August 12, 2021, https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-man-behind-the-myth-should-we-question-the-heros-journey/.

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³² Brianne Radke, “Henry Louis Gates. ‘From the Signifying Monkey and the Language of Signifyin(g),’” {Kin}aesthetic Composure, November 17, 2016, https://brianneradke.wordpress.com/2016/11/15/henry-louis-gates-from-the-signifying-monkey-and-the-language-of-signifying/.

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³⁸ Brianne Radke, “Henry Louis Gates. ‘From the Signifying Monkey and the Language of Signifyin(g),’” {Kin}aesthetic Composure, November 17, 2016, https://brianneradke.wordpress.com/2016/11/15/henry-louis-gates-from-the-signifying-monkey-and-the-language-of-signifying/.