6/29/2023 0 Comments The hero with a thousand![]() Joseph Campbell was born in New York City in 1904. How Did Joseph Campbell Develop the Concept of the Hero’s Journey? ![]() Since 1949, countless stories have used the hero’s journey archetype, from George Lucas’s Star Wars to Disney’s The Lion King. He noticed that many heroic stories follow the same narrative stages, no matter which culture or time period they come from. The term was coined by Joseph Campbell, an American writer and editor who was fascinated by myths from various cultures and literary traditions. Because it’s such a universal narrative structure, the hero’s journey is also known as the "monomyth"-the single great story with many variations. The hero’s journey is an archetypal narrative structure found in stories from cultures all over the world. ![]() ![]() What Is Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey?
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6/29/2023 0 Comments The breakthrough by gwen ifill![]() She navigated the conundrum that black journalists then and now confront: how to respond to the need for informed coverage of racial issues without being confined by it. ![]() Ifill began her journalistic career covering the chaotic aftermath of court-mandated busing in Boston. ![]() She was part of a generation that emerged in the wake of the civil-rights movement, but she was not too distant from the tumult of that era to take its gains for granted. Ifill, the daughter of an African Methodist Episcopal minister, grew up in parsonages and public housing on the East Coast, and graduated from Simmons College, in Boston, in 1977. She came of age at a moment when the default voice of authority in journalism-male, white, avuncular-was entrenched, and helped to quietly upend those presumptions. Ifill, who was gracious even with those she strongly disagreed with, managed to calibrate professionalism and warmth, intellect and humility, and a keen sense of humor. It is a particular cruelty that Ifill, who was a standard-bearer for journalism, a mentor of young reporters, and a profoundly decent colleague, should depart now, when the country has never been more in need of those qualities. ![]() Long before Monday, when Gwen Ifill, the renowned PBS journalist, died, at sixty-one, of cancer, this year had begun to look like a bouquet of hardships. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He graduated from Harvard University in 1837, taught briefly, then turned to writing and lecturing. In 1817, Henry David Thoreau was born in Massachusetts. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, philosopher, and abolitionist who is best known for Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is one of three books, written as a series of novels but sticking scrupulously to the known facts. John’s trilogy The Last Master, a three-part biographical novel of Beethoven, was published to great acclaim in the late 1990’s. Through a vivid narrative culminating in the remarkable moment of his death on 26 March 1827, the ‘raging at the fates’ epiphany, John Suchet invests Beethoven with a tragic grandeur missing from conventional biographies and brings to stunning life the extraordinary story of the Last Master’s personal anguish and artistic triumph. But we also see a genius, divinely blessed, being unjustly punished as disease ravages Ludwig’s body and he becomes increasingly deaf. This is the era of the ‘Battle’ Symphony, the Seventh, and the ‘Ode To Joy’, of monumental pieces composed in solitude and performed with ferocious energy.Īfter his love for his ‘Eternally Beloved’ is consigned to the past, we witness Beethoven’s return to Vienna in 1812, a period of glorious creativity amid a city celebrating the defeat of Napoleon. In Passion and Glory, the concluding volume, the reader witnesses the great dramas of the composer’s last years. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Our Mothers House by Julian Gloag![]() Indeed, he had won an Oscar before his very first feature, for the short 1956 Gogol adaptation The Bespoke Overcoat. He had served as an assistant director for Alexander Korda and an associate producer for John Huston before branching out on his own as a director. Most people, if they’ve heard of Jack Clayton, probably know him as the guy behind the great, twisted 1961 Turn of the Screw adaptation The Innocents. But he's one of the great unsung masters of English-speaking cinema. ( Ahem, Criterion…or, really, anybody.) So here goes nothing.įirst, though, a few words about the director. So I hope the Nerve folks won’t mind if I reinstate that feature here and, to kick things off, revisit one of the forgotten films I felt most strongly about, Jack Clayton’s masterpiece, Our Mother’s House, since it is among my absolute favorite films of all time and is still very, very hard to find. ![]() ![]() Screengrab is long gone not even its leaf-strewn sarcophagus appears to be cached anymore. ![]() ![]() Read 745 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. One unicorn dwells on Earth.Hundreds fight in Luste. ![]() New mysteries arise, new secrets are revealed, as the story thunders on toward its stunning climax. Into the Land of the Unicorns by Bruce Coville Into the Land of the Unicorns book. Although lots of questions are left unanswered, middle-grade unicorn lovers and fantasy fans won't mind: they'll eagerly await a sequel." This is the first volume of a series that grows more intense, detailed, and somewhat darker as it goes on. Coville weaves traditional unicorn myths into his light, accessible fantasy and provides a neatly contrived ending that hints at the next adventure. On the journey she learns how her family and the unicorns are entwined and earns the favor of a powerful dragon. Aided by a Lightfoot, a teenage unicorn, by bearlike Dimblethum, and by silly Squijim, Cara makes her way to the Unicorn Queen to deliver a mysterious message from her grandmother. Review from Booklist: "In the first volume of The Unicorn Chronicles, 11-year-old Cara narrowly escapes being captured on Earth by "leaping" to Luster, the land of the unicorns, only to find that she is being pursued there as well. ![]() ![]() ![]() The captivating first volume of the million-copy-selling UNICORN CHRONICLES is finally available as an ebook! The print version has over 6,500 5 Star reviews on Good Reads. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Down to You by Michelle Leighton![]() ![]() ![]() When her thoughts aren't roaming in that direction, she'll be riding horses, swimming in ponds and experiencing life on a ranch, all without leaving the cozy comfort of her office. Leightons biography, bibliography, list of books, with the current titles, summaries. But one case of mistaken identity has turned her privileged world upside down. Having written over a dozen novels, these days Michelle enjoys letting her mind wander to more romantic settings with sexy Southern guys, much like the one she married and the ones you'll find in her latest books. Or, at least, all the friends money could buy. ![]() Possessed of an overactive imagination from early in her childhood, Michelle finally found an acceptable outlet for her fantastical visions: literary fiction. She relocated to the warmer climates of the South, where she can be near the water all summer and miss the snow all winter. New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author M. As the preacher's daughter, she has livedĪ sheltered lifestyle, but that doesn't mean she hasn Read More. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments O pioneers author![]() But the wild land itself is an equally important character in Cather’s books, and her descriptions of it are so evocative, lush, and moving that they provoked writer Rebecca West to say of her: “The most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined world almost as solidly as our five senses build the universe around us.” A tale of the prairie land encountered by America’s Swedish, Czech, Bohemian, and French immigrants, as well as a story of how the land challenged them, changed them, and, in some cases, defeated them, Cather’s novel is a uniquely American epic.Īlexandra Bergson, a young Swedish immigrant girl who inherits her father’s farm and must transform it from raw prairie into a prosperous enterprise, is the first of Cather’s great heroines-all of them women of strong will and an even stronger desire to overcome adversity and succeed. One of America’s greatest writers, Cather established her talent and her reputation with this extraordinary novel-the first of her books set on the Nebraska frontier. The novel that first made Willa Cather famous-a powerfully mythic tale of the American frontier told through the life of one extraordinary woman ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Dark horse star wars![]() ![]() "Mixed in would be one-shots and specials. ![]() "The idea is to build up a Star Wars program that includes an on-going series as well as an anthology," says Mike Richardson, Dark Horse Comics founder and CEO. The storied publisher, which has worked with Lucasfilm on a variety of titles from Dark Empire in 1991 to The Art of Star Wars Rebels in 2020, has announced a new line of all-ages comics and graphic novels expanding the Star Wars galaxy like never before.īeginning in the spring of 2022, experience adventures in every era, from the High Republic through the rise of the First Order, with new and exciting stories produced in collaboration with Lucasfilm and Disney Worldwide Publishing. New all-ages comics and graphic novels from the storied publisher will debut in the spring of 2022.ĭark Horse Comics is heading back to a galaxy far, far away in 2022. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Charlie changes into a chicken![]() It was followed by the sequel Charlie Turns Into a T-Rex, and the third in the series - Charlie Morphs into a Mammoth - which was published in February 2020. ![]() Charlie Changes Into a Chicken is his first book. So with the help of his three best friends, Charlie needs to find a way of dealing with his crazy new power – and fast!Praise for Charlie Changes into a Chicken:’Belly-busting hilarity’ The Guardian’The modern masterpiece. He is from Manchester and now lives in London with two smelly cats, three smelly children and one relatively clean-smelling wife. Trouble is, he can’t decide when – it only happens when he gets worried.Īnd right now, Charlie has quite a lot to worry about:* His brother (who is in hospital)* His parents (who are panicking about it)* And the school bully (who has Charlie in his sights)And even though every kid wants a superhero power, Charlie isn’t keen on changing into a chicken in the middle of the school play. All sorts of animals: a flea, a pigeon, even a rhino. ![]() The fact that hes started turning into animals Even though every kid wants. ![]() ![]() The first book in a hilarious new series for fans of Roald Dahl and David Walliams!Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize! Longlisted for the Brandford Boase Award! Longlisted for the Blue Peter Award! The Guardian and The Telegraph’s Children’s Book of the Year! _ Charlie McGuffin has an incredible secret. Charlie McGuffin tries to be an optimist, but in reality hes a bit of a worrier. ![]() |