The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension: Selected Essays 1944-1968 - Brossura

Campbell, Joseph

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ISBN 10: 1608685314 ISBN 13: 9781608685318

Casa editrice: New World Library, 2018

Riassunto

In The Flight of the Wild Gander, renowned mythologist Joseph Campbell explores the individual and geographical origins of myth, outlining the full range of mythology from Grimm’s fairy tales to Native American legends. Originally published in 1969, this first collection of Campbell’s essays describes the symbolic content of stories: how they are linked to human experience and how they—along with our experiences—have changed over time. Throughout, Campbell explores the function of mythology in everyday life and the forms it may take in the future. Included are two of Campbell’s first groundbreaking essays: “Bios and Mythos” and “Primitive Man As Metaphysician,” both of which examine the biological basis and necessity for story and mythology, and establish mythology as a basic function or fact of human nature. Campbell explores how the myth was born, as well as the personal experiences of the visionary medicine man through whose memory the myth was preserved.

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Joseph Campbell is widely credited with bringing mythology to a mass audience. His works, including The Hero with a Thousand Faces, the four-volume The Masks of God, and The Power of Myth (with Bill Moyers), rank among the classics in mythology and literature.

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• Editore: New World Library
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1608685314
• ISBN 13: 9781608685318
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 237