Word: monomyth
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...despite the pyrotechnics, for Miller story is all. Ever since he sent Mel Gibson's disillusioned police officer Max Rockatansky down a Geelong highway in 1978, the former emergency-room doctor has claimed the mythological writings of Joseph Campbell as his cinematic touchstone. "The composite hero of the monomyth is a personage of exceptional gifts," wrote Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces. "Frequently he is honored by his society, frequently unrecognized or disdained." From misfit Max, to a piglet who thinks he's a sheep, and a penguin who can't express himself through song, only dance...
...endeavors, for the most part, to respectably antique subjects. When James Joyce published his last and longest book, however, Levin could not resist penning a review called "On First Looking Into Finnegans Wake." He was one of the first critics courageous enough to probe the obscurities of Joyce's "monomyth" and Joyce himself praised the review highly for its critical acumen...
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