Myths and Heroes in Creative Writing: Re-reading and Remaking offers a comprehensive overview of myth throughout history. Exploring a variety of forms, Adrian May provides a framework for the practice and process of writing myths.
Myths and Heroes in Creative Writing: Re-reading and Remaking offers a comprehensive overview of myth throughout history. Exploring a variety of forms, Adrian May provides a framework for the practice and process of writing myths.
Adrian May is Community Fellow and former Deputy Director of Creative Writing at the University of Essex, UK. He is the author of three previous books about creativity: Myth and Creative Writing (2011), The Magic of Writing (2018), Tradition in Creative Writing (2021) and Boot Sale Harvest (non-fiction, 2023). He has also published several collections of poems and songs, including Full Fathom Folk (2022) and Grail Island (2025), the latter inspired by some of the material in this book.
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Acknowledgements Part One: Introductory Preface: The Mythic Wanderer 1. The Errant Way 2. The Human Pattern Part Two: The Narrow Hero 3. Big Heroes Reduced 4. Portability: Genre; Wilderness 5. Writers not Wrong Part Three: Ante-heroes 6. Ante, Mock, Anti 7. The Vanishing Grail 8. How to Disappear 9. Tarot and Tao Part Four: Mythic alternatives 10. Decline of Folly 11. Confronting the hero-monster 12. Supernatural alternatives Part Five: Postscripts 13. Ceremonies of Innocence 14. Ritual and Initiation Index
Acknowledgements Part One: Introductory Preface: The Mythic Wanderer 1. The Errant Way 2. The Human Pattern Part Two: The Narrow Hero 3. Big Heroes Reduced 4. Portability: Genre; Wilderness 5. Writers not Wrong Part Three: Ante-heroes 6. Ante, Mock, Anti 7. The Vanishing Grail 8. How to Disappear 9. Tarot and Tao Part Four: Mythic alternatives 10. Decline of Folly 11. Confronting the hero-monster 12. Supernatural alternatives Part Five: Postscripts 13. Ceremonies of Innocence 14. Ritual and Initiation Index
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