![]() ![]() Like Campbell, Turner had been a student of Jung.) Norman will discuss Divine Right's Trip and its debt to Campbell and Jung. Ultimately, however, he finds resolution to his unsettled searching while he cares for his dying uncle, works the earth, and experiences community/ communitas (as anthropologist Victor Turner would have put it. There the hero encounters deep crisis in his own consciousness (no surprise, given the quantity of drugs ingested on the trip). Leaving Estelle to fend for herself in Cincinnati, D.R. ![]() ![]() They follow an indirect route from California to Ohio. ![]() and his partner, Estelle-journey across the United States from California to Eastern Kentucky in their VW bus named Urge. This presentation addresses whether what may be Appalachia’s first postmodern novel may also be described as “folktale.” In the novel, two free spirits-D.R. These perspectives inspired D.R.’s fictional journey-so much so that the original subtitle of Divine Right’s Trip was A Folktale. Norman’s thinking was profoundly influenced by Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell, whose philosophies drew in part from folk traditions. Continuing a dialogue they began at ASA in 2018, the author and Susan L.F. Gurney Norman opens this session reading from his acclaimed 1972 novel, Divine Right’s Trip. ![]()
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