Cragen With A Thousand Faces

The following is an excerpt from a rough draft of one of my two thesis papers:

Like all contemporary myth-makers, I looked to the established tropes of the narrative tradition to identify those symbols and strategies that are universally agreed upon as signifiers of specific meanings. I then manipulated those tropes to reveal a system of meaning transmission that is decidedly out of line with the historically understood strategies of the narrative tradition, but, by the nature of its creation, cannot possibly divorce itself from that tradition. For example, the story of Captain Cragen, a frequently occurring character in my personal myth (originally taken from the popular television series, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), may mostly align with Campbell's hero's journey, but in my myth, Cragen can be at any given time any, every and no character in the myth.