A poem by Katy Giebenhain about “Star Wars” shows the flaws of its Joseph Campbell roots. She notes that “the hero doesn’t get/through anything alone.”
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Star Wars & Thousand-Faced Heroes
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Use the Force, Luke–of Shakespeare
Ian Doescher’s new book imagining “Star Wars” as Shakespeare would have written it is very, very clever.
