Monomyth
Monomyth originated in the work of this scholar.
Who was Joseph Campbell?
Our readings call this literary style "the language of sound and form".
What is poetry?
Literature for and about children almost exclusively represents this perspective.
What are adult views of children and childhood?
We can trace today's Humanities to the concepts the trivium and this four-discipline counterpart.
What is the quadrivium?
We read about this heroine, who defied the expectation of her parents and the magistrates.
Who is Chi Li?
This is the second of the three main stages of Campbell's monomyth.
What is initiation?
If your novel became part of the "accepted group of group of related work", you could say it is now part of this.
What is canon?
This type of short story is meant to share a "useful truth" or moral.
What is a fable?
Our author argued that one misconception that keeps us from enjoying the arts is the belief that a work only has one of these.
What is meaning (or theme)?
One of our authors felt Campbell's monomyth was too rooted in this very general time period.
What is the past?
Carl Jung believed all humans share this body of shared memory.
What is collective unconscious?
If we traced literature to its earliest prehistoric origins, we would find this form of passing myths.
What were oral traditions / storytelling?
This book featured the Hero's Journey of a boy named Max.
What is Where the Wild Things Are?
Our current understandings of the Humanities come from this period occurring from about 1300-1600 BCE.
What was the Renaissance?
Steinberg compared over-analyzing literature to "dissecting" this.
What is something dead?
"Refusal of the call" takes place within this main stage of the Hero's Journey.
What is departure?
Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech is an example of what literary form?
What is creative non-fiction?
Yuyi Morales was first introduced to children's literature when she wished to learn this language.
What is English?
Humanities today still carries the spirit of this English translation of the Latin "studia humanitatus".
What is "the study of humanity"?
The function of myth that supports or validates a certain social order is called this.
What is "Sociological"?
This character archetype disrupts the status quo, and often brings about "productive chaos".
Who is The Trickster?
In class, we read this poem that imitates the rhythm of speech using oddly broken lines.
What is Constantly Risking Absurdity?
Children became symbols of innocence, purity, and nature during the "Age of Reason" in this century.
What is the 18th Century / 1700s?
This art might seem out of place among the Quadrivium's arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy.
What is music?
Finish this quotation from Joseph Campbell - "The cave you fear to enter holds . . ."
What is "the treasure you seek"?