Title
The hero with a thousand faces / Joseph Campbell.
Edition
3rd ed.
ISBN
9781577315933 (alk. paper)
1577315936 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Novato, Calif. : New World Library, c2008.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 418 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
BL313 .C28 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
201/.3
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Campbell, Joseph, 1904-1987. Works. 1993.
Bollingen series ; 17.
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.