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The hero with a thousand faces. 17.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Bollingen series | Collected works of Joseph CampbellPublication details: Novato, Calif. : New World Library, 2008.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xiii, 418 pages : illustrationpagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1577315936
  • 9781577315933
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 201/.3 22
LOC classification:
  • BL313 .C28 2008
Other classification:
  • 11.09
  • 73.56
  • BE 2100
  • EC 5410
Contents:
Prologue: The monomyth -- pt. 1. The adventure of the hero -- Departure -- Initiation -- Return -- The keys -- pt. 2. The cosmogonic cycle -- Emanations -- The virgin birth -- Transformations of the hero -- Dissolutions -- Myth and society.
Summary: Since its release in 1949, The Hero With a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbells' revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. In these pages, Campbell outlines the Hero's Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through virtually all of the world's mythic traditions. He also explores the Cosmogonic Cycle, the mythic pattern of world creation and destruction.
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Prologue: The monomyth -- pt. 1. The adventure of the hero -- Departure -- Initiation -- Return -- The keys -- pt. 2. The cosmogonic cycle -- Emanations -- The virgin birth -- Transformations of the hero -- Dissolutions -- Myth and society.

Since its release in 1949, The Hero With a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbells' revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. In these pages, Campbell outlines the Hero's Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through virtually all of the world's mythic traditions. He also explores the Cosmogonic Cycle, the mythic pattern of world creation and destruction.

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