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Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American writer. He was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human experience.
In The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell looks at multiple myths, including what may be the earliest hero journey on record: the goddess Inanna’s Descent into the Underworld (the Sumerian version dates to c. 2112 BCE). Nevertheless, most examples in the book are of male heroes.
May 2, 2024 · Joseph Campbell (born March 26, 1904, New York, New York, U.S.—died October 30, 1987, Honolulu, Hawaii) was a prolific American author and editor whose works on comparative mythology examined the universal functions of myth in various human cultures and mythic figures in a wide range of literatures.
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.
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