Sentences with phrase «mythic structure»

The hero's journey is based on the work of screenwriter Christopher Vogler, whose book The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers was in turn based upon his interpretation of the archetypes described by Joseph Campbell in his seminal work on mythology, The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

Much of Panikkar's work has been devoted to clarifying the mythic structures contained in modernity (in «secularism») and in the major religious traditions of the East.

Such integrated mythic structures provide the continuity and stability among the different types of programs, a continuity and stability needed by television's advertisers, used by its creative writers and producers, and sought by its users in their search for relaxation and entertainment.

To discover that a local church's most intimate and intense activities do not at their base reflect a withdrawal from the world but rather a participation in public, mythic structures can be a liberating perception about the symbolic depth and breadth of church activity.

Miller saw that a certain kind of storytelling founded in mythic structures could govern this process, especially when it continues to deploy the affective possibilities of montage.

Her stories are inspired by familial tales, poetry, and politics, which she translates into collective, surreal and mythic structures.

Not exact matches

We learn who we are through the stories we embrace as our own — the story of my life is structured by the larger stories (social, political, mythic) in which I understand my personal story to take place.

On the level of male - female relations, the mythic account of the fall in fact describes the patriarchal society of the early people who created this Genesis myth, which in its turn confirmed the social structure of male dominance and female subjection.

They are the ones a congregational study team will use in discerning the structure of the congregational story and its mythic parallels.

It's still a good movie, for what it's worth: mythic, muscular, interestingly untethered from so many of the still - going assumptions about how to structure a big, juicy American Hero movie.

Using the mythic story structure as her model, Beth Barany has crafted 12 concise steps to get you through the preparation, writing, and completion phases of your novel.