a substantial part of Middlemarch is about Dorothea's realization that the man she has married in the belief that he is a genius through his 'Key to All Mythologies' has wasted his life on a futile quest because he doesn't read German and is entirely unaware of modern scholarly work.
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"All myths are at their core the same myth" is one of those things that keeps popping up across scholars — the Germans had been at it off and on for a while before Campbell — and it almost always requires a rather procrustean approach to the stories.
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subtle differences.
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