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"In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books."
- Michel de Montaigne
(1553 - 1592)
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ZIN Product Number: 10007806
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 Format: Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
ISBN: 0060966122
Release Date: Jan 20, 1905
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Provocative and personal writings on mythology, culture, and modern life by our century's foremost interpreter and teacher of myth.Gathered together here for the first time are twelve eclectic,far-ranging, and brilliant essays exploring myth in all its dimensions:its history; its influence on art, literature, and culture; and its role in everyday life. Written at the height of Joseph Campbell's career — and showcasing the lively and learned intelligence that made him thepremier writer on mythology of our times — these essays investigate the profound links between myth and history, the arts, and modern life. From psychology to the occult, from Thomas Mann to the GratefulDead, from Goddess spirituality to Freud and Jung, these playful anderudite writings reveal the threads of myth woven deeply into thefabric of our culture and our lives.
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| | | |  | | | | Editor's Foreword | | | Comparative Mythology as an Introduction to Cross-Cultural Studies | 1 | | The Historical Development of Mythology | 10 | | Renewal Myths and Rides of the Primitive Hunters and Planters | 29 | | Johann Jacob Bachofen | 67 | | The Mystery Number of the Goddess | 92 | | Creativity | 151 | | The Interpretation of Symbolic Forms | 156 | | Mythological Themes in Creative Literature and Art | 180 | | The Occult in Myth and Literature | 204 | | Erotic Irony and Mythic Forms in the Art of Thomas Mann | 220 | | App. 1 | Select Bibliography of the Works of Joseph Campbell | 243 | | App. 2 | Reading List for Joseph Campbell's Class on Mythology at Sarah Lawrence College | 245 | | Endnotes | 247 |
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