![]() ![]() ![]() “The Heroine With 1001 Faces” offers a response to that request - an erudite but frustratingly unfocused one. What more did she want? “I want to be the hero,” his student replied. ![]() “What about the women?” she asked the professor, whereupon Campbell explained that the women were the hero’s mother, his protectress and the prize at the end of his quest. In her introduction to “The Heroine with 1001 Faces,” Maria Tatar tells the story of a Sarah Lawrence student who marched into Joseph Campbell’s office and told the author of “The Hero With a Thousand Faces” that she had heard enough about “the hero” in his class on comparative mythology. THE HEROINE WITH 1001 FACES By Maria Tatar ![]()
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