Sentences with phrase «mythic journey»

We're only going to brush the surface here, but if you want more resources for reading, I can recommend Dramatica: A New Theory of Story and Tracy Hickman's wonderful essay The Mythic Journey.
His personal quest for meaning and faith becomes a mythic journey that is at the same time quintessentially contemporary — and American.

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(Except once, in a mythic aside: Whitehead cites from Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II, and then adds: «the fact of Satan's journey through chaos helped to evolve order; for he left a permanent track, useful for the devils and the damned» [PR 96].
Yet the Hero journey characterized Trinity Church, and from preliterate times mythic beings in the forms of masks, angels, genii, and saints have served to identify the local community.
Mythic Yoga Flow is a soulful journey to ignite magic in your body, mind and heart with the stories and practices of yoga.
As a genre, fantasy has always showcased innocence in its mythic, meandering journey to confront the forces of evil.
You may have gotten your first taste of this mythic world in Morrowind, or Oblivion, or even Skyrim, but regardless of where your journey with the series started, it surely hasn't ended.
Tim Grierson at Screen International: «In some ways, The Good Dinosaur is one of Pixar's most conventional films... But that template sets the stage for a mythic, visually resplendent treatment of familiar material, as first - time feature director Peter Sohn wrings considerable emotion from a tale that's part Western, part Incredible Journey - style adventure.»
The sleepy realism of the first act slowly falls away as Charley's journey becomes almost mythic in length.
A mythic melange of The Odyssey, Southern folklore, the Great Depression, and your standard road movie, the film follows a trio of escaped convicts (George Clooney, John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson) who embark on a journey across 1937 Mississippi to find treasure and bring Clooney back to his lady love (Holly Hunter).
According to Jessica Kiang's review, his journey takes on «an almost mythic resonance,» the film walking «the line between realism and metaphor so well that the story feels utterly authentic to its claustrophobic setting, and yet broader, more sweeping, more universal too.»
Making his way by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart and camel, he travels from the tomb of the Yellow Emperor, the mythic progenitor of the Chinese people, to the ancient port of Antioch — in perhaps the most difficult and ambitious journey he has undertaken in forty years of travel.
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 Thousandjourney 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 ThousandJourney: 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.
Mythic CEO Mark Jacobs has taken issue with the reveal that over half of WoW - to - WAR emigrants had made the return journey.
Journey of the Human Spirit narrates the history of the Hopi people, from the mythic emergence through the arrival of Europeans, to the rebirth of Hopi traditions in the information age.
Sandler rightly traces this conception of a «mythic terrain» to one locus, surely — Still's own writings about the new abstraction (1959): «It was a journey that one must make, walking straight and alone.
Also available in a book, which was first published thirteen years ago and is available soon as a new edition from MACK, the artist's lyrical view has undoubtedly acquired new meanings — ones in which hope, fear, desire and regret coalesce in the evocative journey along this mythic river.
The work reimagines typical mythic tropes, such as a feminist reworking of the hero's journey.
«An immersive and enthralling journey through the Sonoran Desert on the U.S. - Mexico border, EL MAR LA MAR weaves together harrowing oral histories of intense, mythic experiences in the desert with hand - processed 16 mm images -LSB-...]
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