New Cambridge Workshop
Reinventing the Hero:
The Hero’s Journey
from Gilgamesh to Tyler Durden
Tuesday nights beginning April 23rd / Five weeks
Two hours / 7:00-9:00 / $250 / Instructor Abby Jarvis
Location: Cambridge Study Center
Our postmodern culture is one that values the scientific and disregards the mythic.
For all that postmodernist authors reject the narratives and legends that have shaped
world literature, the ancient cycle of the hero’s journey makes regular, if distorted,
appearances in today’s literature and film. In this class, we’ll examine the universal
hero cycle as it appears in the Gilgamesh epic and other legends and will trace the
hero’s journey all the way through some of the most groundbreaking postmodern
literature published to date. We may live in a society that values logic and scorns
tradition, but postmodernists tell the same stories that have existed since the dawn
of time.What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
– Ecclesiastes 1:9
For all that postmodernist authors reject the narratives and legends that have shaped
world literature, the ancient cycle of the hero’s journey makes regular, if distorted,
appearances in today’s literature and film. In this class, we’ll examine the universal
hero cycle as it appears in the Gilgamesh epic and other legends and will trace the
hero’s journey all the way through some of the most groundbreaking postmodern
literature published to date. We may live in a society that values logic and scorns
tradition, but postmodernists tell the same stories that have existed since the dawn
of time.What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
– Ecclesiastes 1:9
If we are to communicate the Christian faith effectively, therefore, we must know
and understand the thought-forms of our own generation [...] to communicate
unchanging truth in a changing world.
– Francis Schaeffer, Escape from Reason
To register for this Cambridge workshop:
Mailing Address: 302 1/2 East Belvedere Street • Lakeland, Florida 33803
Phone: (863) 221-7207
Email: abigailljarvis@gmail.comCambridge Study Center
Physical Address: 5120 South Florida Avenue, Suite 208 • Lakeland, Florida 33813
Cambridge website: www.cambridgestudycenter.com
Mailing Address: 302 1/2 East Belvedere Street • Lakeland, Florida 33803
Phone: (863) 221-7207
Email: abigailljarvis@gmail.comCambridge Study Center
Physical Address: 5120 South Florida Avenue, Suite 208 • Lakeland, Florida 33813
Cambridge website: www.cambridgestudycenter.com