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This is pretty much just a riff on the Hero's Journey which is a very common narrative structure, featured a lot in Jung's psychology and just about every (fant
by Barrin92 4y ago
This is pretty much just a riff on the Hero's Journey which is a very common narrative structure, featured a lot in Jung's psychology and just about every (fantasy) epic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey
- simonh 4y agoMichael Moorcock hated the hero’s journey stuff and the identikit generic material it engendered. He wrote his fantasy fiction in ways that deliberately broke all the tropes and patterns, to great effect.