The American Monomyth is a 1977 book by Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence arguing for the existence and cultural importance of an 'American Monomyth', a variation on the classical monomyth …

Aug 19, 2019 · The American monomyth by Jewett, Robert Publication date 1977 Topics Popular culture -- United States Publisher Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press Collection trent_university; …

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He is the author of Mission and Menace: Four Centuries of American Religious Zeal, and is Theologian in Residence at St. Mark's Methodist Church in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Jul 31, 1977 · After looking at pnenomena from “Star Trek” to “Jaws” to “Walking Tall,” the authors locate the origins of this myth in the idea of a New World itself, a kind of Providential offering of a second...

Battening upon superficial characteristics of classical mythology, Jewett and Lawrence define ""the American monomyth"" as ""an archetypal pattern. . . in which a community threatened by evil is …

Jewett and Lawrence examine the American monomyth in popular culture and mass media, driven by recurrent patterns in television, movies, real-life legends, and books.

Dec 13, 2023 · Jewett and Lawrence examine the American monomyth in popular culture and mass media, driven by recurrent patterns in television, movies, real-life legends, and books.

The American Monomyth was written in 1977, and is an excellent analysis of major storytelling successes from that era. It seeks to take the "monomyth" principle of Joseph Campbell's The Hero …

The American Monomyth is a 1977 book by Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence arguing for the existence and cultural importance of an 'American Monomyth', a variation on the classical monomyth …