Tag: Douglas Bauer

by CG FEWSTON March 9, 2014
Fiction Film Non-Fiction Pictures

Don Quixote (Part I, 1605 & Part II, 1615) by Miguel de Cervantes

In all the literature in all the world, never was there a character like Don Quixote to have predicted his own fame.

by CG FEWSTON March 8, 2014
Fiction Poetry Videos

Candide (1759) by Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet]

By keeping it to a much smaller scale, Voltaire is able to enforce magnetic and grandiose ideas in a line equivalent to a line in poetry.

by CG FEWSTON February 17, 2014
Non-Fiction

The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949) by Joseph Campbell

The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949) by Joseph Campbell is the book that awakened in writers and storytellers in publishing and in screenwriting to the larger scope of mythology as metaphor and to the underlining structure of stories.

by CG FEWSTON July 24, 2013
Non-Fiction Pictures

The Masks of God, Vol. I: Primitive Mythology (1959) by Joseph Campbell

One of the last sections is “The Functioning of Myth” and Campbell goes into great deal to extrapolate the introductory section. “The ends for which men strive in the world,” writes Campbell, “are three — no more, no less; namely: love and pleasure (kāma), power and success (artha: pronounced ‘art-ha’), and lawful order and moral virtue (dharma).”