Description |
1 online resource |
Series |
Routledge Library Editions: Myth |
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Routledge library editions. Myth.
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Contents |
The soul's high adventure : Campbell's comparative mythology / Phil Cousineau -- Freud, Jung, and Campbell / Stephen Larsen -- Myth versus religion for Campbell / Robert A. Segal -- Interpreting Campbell : hermeneutics and comparative mythology / Gregory Salyer -- The American roots of Campbell's mythic vision / Ted R. Spivey -- The twin heroes : Campbell's solar/lunar vision of the masculine / Howard Teich -- Campbell on myth, romantic love, and marriage / Joseph K. Davis -- Campbell and Schopenhauer : synchronicity and the tragic vision / Sandra J. Smith -- Campbell, the feminine principle, and the romantic male hero / Donna McGee Onebane -- The chariot of the hero : myth and metaphor in Campbell / Joan Weatherly -- The rhetoric of mythology and science in Campbell's works / Kenneth T. Rainey -- Campbell and the "vanilla-frosted temple" : from myth to multiplex / Harold Schechter and Jonna Gormely Semeiks -- Campbell, science fiction, and space age myths / Kenneth L. Golden -- Campbell and the inklings-- Tolkien, Lewis, and Williams / Vernon R. Hyles -- The power of wilderness : Campbell and the ecological imperative / Mary A. Doll -- Campbell, America, and the individual as new hero / Dabney Gray -- Campbell and the perennial philosophy : social sciences, mysticism, and myth / Mark Meadows |
Summary |
This collection, first published in 1992, offers critical-interpretive essays on various aspects of the work of Joseph Campbell (1904-1987), one of a very few international experts on myth. Joseph Campbell examines myths and mythologies from a comparative point of view, and he stresses those similarities among myths the world over as they suggest an existing, transcendent unity of all humankind. His interpretations foster an openness, even a generous appreciation of, all myths; and he attempts to generate a broad, sympathetic understanding of the role of these 'stories' in human history, in ou |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
Subject |
Campbell, Joseph, 1904-1987.
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SUBJECT |
Campbell, Joseph, 1904-1987 fast |
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Myth.
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myths.
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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Myth
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Electronic book
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Author |
Golden, Kenneth L., 1951- editor.
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ISBN |
9781317550860 |
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1317550862 |
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9781317550853 |
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1317550854 |
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9781317550846 |
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1317550846 |
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9781315731063 |
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1315731061 |
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9781315730332 |
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1315730332 |
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