connection I made in class today

Honestly, I hadn't thought about the connection to Joseph Campbell's work until we were talking in class today! SO I went to wikipedia to see if they had a good summary of him and his work there that I could share with you. Of course, they did : )
You might be interested in his concept that I touched on today: monomyth
What most surprised me was that Campbell was inspired to his studies partly by reading the James Joyce novel, Finnegan's Wake. I never knew this! I am a huge fan of Irish literature, but have still never read this important novel. Now I think I have to move it up on my list of "must reads." The Irish really know how to do mythologies up right : )
But thinking about White Castle, I am not sure that there is a hero, nor that this is a hero's myth. It is more that Pamuk tells a story questioning "difference" and seeming to say that there is only sameness. It is a story about telling stories. This part, on p155 haunts me:

...by writing those kinds of tales, by searching for the strange within ourselves, we, too, would become someone else, and God forbid, our readers would too.

And then the narrator/translator says "But I wanted to!" To tell stories? To become someone else? This book is a story about storytellers, and, as one, I would just like to say that it freaks me out.