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Star Wars and History: Joseph Campbell and the Urban Myth with a Thousand Faces

Star Wars and History: Joseph Campbell and the Urban Myth with a Thousand Faces

by David Tollen | Jan 19, 2016 | Teacher-Specific, Writing About History

~ This is the third of a six-post series called Star Wars and History. (See below for the six posts’ titles.) ~ In The Hero with a Thousand Faces, mythologist Joseph Campbell argues that the same basic stories and themes appear in all the world’s myths....
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