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You have allowed me to undertake this hero journey.  \nUNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA  \nFACULTY OF HUMANITIES  \nRESEARCH PROPOSAL & ETHICS COMMITTEE  \nDeclaration  \nFull name: Alexander Leighton  \nStudent Number: 11346257  \nDegree/Qualification: Magister Artium in the Department of English  \nTitle of thesis/dissertation/mini-dissertation:  \nReawakening the Myth: Retelling the Hero Journey in Percy Jackson  \nand the Olympians.  \nI declare that this dissertation is my own original work. Where secondary material  \nis used, this has been carefully acknowledged and referenced in accordance with  \nuniversity requirements.  \nI understand what plagiarism is and am aware of the University’s policy in this  \nregard and its implications.  \nSIGNATURE DATE  \nAbstract  \nThe hero journey as theorised by Joseph Campbell in 1949 in The Hero With A  \nThousand Faces (reprinted 1993) has informed and influenced mainstream  \nstorytelling for more than half a century. In Campbell’s work, it is argued that the  \nmythologies of the world all share essential features, and could therefore be seen  \nas analogues of what Campbell terms a ‘monomyth’, a single, identifiable story  \nthat unites and defines disparate myths from around the world, illustrating to  \nreaders the form of the journey on which they themselves must embark to reach  \nself-actualisation in their own lives. 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