Summary of Maria Tatar's The Heroine with 1001 Faces

Excerpt From Summary of Maria Tatar's The Heroine with 1001 Faces



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The author wants to avoid reducing the thousand and one heroines in this book to a model that only resembles the traditional hero archetypes found in Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces.



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The first step towards becoming a hero, which is also the title of the first chapter in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, is to leave home.