In this essay, I address Part I, Chapter I, The Adventure of the Hero: Departure, of Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces.[1] In particular, I focus my analysis on four key elements of the Departure stage; these being The Call to Adventure, Refusal of the Call,
The wonderful thing about having a backstage pass to the Green Room at the Hay Festival is that you are never entirely sure who you might run into. When James (James Paxton Priestley, Editor-in-Chief of GossamerWight Literary Magazine) and I whizzed off to Hay two years ago for a two-day
‘The forests have unleashed a tempest, and spores now dance on the wind.’ — Dr João Miguel Gonçalves. Mycologist.
For any first-time visitor to the sprawling complex of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environment Control on Bull Street, Columbia, finding the whereabouts of Doctor Aline Silva could prove as
In this essay, I explore how adoption of the graphic novel form by the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel for her 2006 autography Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic allowed her, I contend, to create a narrative with a deeper, more nuanced message than that possible in prose form alone. Of the
Never had I so longed to possess the power of precognition. Were it the case, then I would have foreseen upon waking that by eleven o’clock, destiny had appointed this day and time to have me staring at the flaking, corporation brown gloss paint of another’s closed front
As an ardent student of Greek mythology, Jacky De’Ath had long ago concluded that the Moirai—the trinity of goddesses more commonly known as The Fates—had spun and fashioned their web of destiny so intricately and tightly that they would compel her to adopt a life of criminality.
