"Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed."—Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan
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New Myths
Part 9 in the series, A Literary Search for Meaning by Karen Hughes Joseph Campbell argues that myths offer life models and such models “have to be appropriate to the time in which you are living”; modern life requires mythologies
Philosophical Apocalyptic Science Fiction
Part 8 in the series, A Literary Search for Meaning by Karen Hughes Speculative fiction offers a variety of overlapping genres with a wide range of tropes and techniques that the modern writer can draw upon to create new and