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Title Uses of comparative mythology : essays on the work of Joseph Campbell / edited by Kenneth L. Golden
Published London : Routledge

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Series Routledge Library Editions: Myth
Routledge library editions. Myth.
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
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Subject Campbell, Joseph, 1904-1987.
SUBJECT Campbell, Joseph, 1904-1987 fast
Subject Myth.
myths.
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
Myth
Form Electronic book
Author Golden, Kenneth L., 1951- editor.
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