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The Hero with a Thousand Faces (first published in 1949) is a work of comparative mythology by Joseph Campbell, in which the author discusses his theory of the mythological structure of the journey of the archetypal hero found in world myths. Since the publication of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell's theory has been consciously applied ...
- Joseph Campbell
- 1949
4. The Hero as Lover 316 5. The Hero as Emperor and as Tyrant 319 6. The Hero as World Redeemer 322 7. The Hero as Saint 32 8. Departure of the Hero 329 CHAPTER IV: Dissolutions 337 1. End of the Microcosm 337 2. End of the Macrocosm 345 EPILOGUE: Myth and Society 351 1. The Shapeshifter 353 2. The Function of Myth, Cult, and Meditation 354 3 ...
In 1944, with Henry Morton Robinson, Campbell published A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake. His first original work, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, came out in 1949 and was immediately well received; in time, it became acclaimed as a classic. In this study of the "myth of the hero," Campbell asserted that there is a single pattern of heroic ...
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Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press / Bollingen Series, 1973. Later reprint. Signed by Joseph Campbell and inscribed to a former owner on the colophon page. Bound in publisher's original illustrated wraps. Very Good, light creasing and wear to covers, covers curled outward, light soiling to textblock edge. The author's best-known work, an influential mythology book, which inspired Star ...
Mar 22, 2016 · This Summer of 2017 I read the 1973 reprint of the 2nd edition (1969) published by the Princeton University Press as "Bollingen Series XVIII" of Campbell's celebrated The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Fourteen plates and twenty-one additional illustrations are sprinkled throughout the roughly 400 pages of prose.
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Volume 10. Joseph Campbell's classic cross-cultural study of the hero's journey has inspired millions and opened up new areas of research and exploration. Originally published in 1949, the book hit the New York Times best-seller list in 1988 when it became the subject of The Power of Myth, a PBS television special.
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Joseph Campbell's classic cross-cultural study of the hero's journey has inspired millions and opened up new areas of research and exploration. Originally published in 1949, the book hit the New York Times bestseller list in 1988 when it became the subject of The Power of Myth, a PBS television special.
