The hero with a thousand faces

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Title:

The hero with a thousand faces

Author:

Campbell, Joseph, 1904-1987, author.

Joseph Campbell Foundation, issuing body.

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 Campbell's 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.

Edition:

Third edition.

Contents:

Prologue: The monomyth. Myth and dream ; Tragedy and comedy ; The hero and the god ; The world navel.

Part I: The adventure of the hero. 1: Departure. The call to adventure ; Refusal of the call ; Supernatural aid ; The crossing of the first threshold ; The belly of the whale -- 2: Initiation. The road of trials ; The meeting with the Goddess ; Woman as the Temptress ; Atonement with the father ; Apotheosis ; The ultimate boon -- 3: Return. Refusal of the return ; The magic flight ; Rescue from without ; The crossing of the return threshold ; Master of the Two Worlds ; Freedom to live -- 4: The keys.

Part II: The cosmogonic cycle. 1: Emanations. From psychology to metaphysics ; The universal round ; Out of the void--space ; Within space--life ; The breaking of the One into the Manifold ; Folk stories of creation -- 2: The virgin birth. Mother universe ; Matrix of destiny ; Womb of redemption ; Folk stories of virgin motherhood -- 3: Transformations of the hero. The primordial hero and the human ; Childhood of the human hero ; The hero as warrior ; The hero as lover ; The hero as emperor and as tyrant ; The hero as world redeemer ; The hero as saint ; Departure of the hero -- 4: Dissolutions. End of the Microcosm ; End of the Macrocosm -- Epilogue: Myth and society. The shapeshifter ; The function of myth, cult and meditation ; The hero today.

Physical Description:

xiii, 418 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Subject Term:

Mythology.

Jungian psychology.

Psychoanalysis.

Added Corporate Author:

Joseph Campbell Foundation,

Publisher:

New World Library,

Electronic Access:

Table of contents

Publication Date:

2008

ISBN:

9781577315933

Publication Information:

Novato, California : New World Library, [2008]

Call Number:

291 CAMPBELL

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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 Campbell's 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.

As part of the Joseph Campbell Foundation's Collected Works of Joseph Campbell, this third edition features expanded illustrations, a comprehensive bibliography, and more accessible sidebars.

As relevant today as when it was first published, The Hero with a Thousand Faces continues to find new audiences in fields ranging from religion and anthropology to literature and film studies. The book has also profoundly influenced creative artists--including authors, songwriters, game designers, and filmmakers--and continues to inspire all those interested in the inherent human need to tell stories.

Author Notes

Joseph Campbell was born in White Plains, New York on March 26, 1904. He received a B.A. in English literature in 1925 and an M.A. in Medieval literature in 1927 from Columbia University. He was awarded a Proudfit Traveling Fellowship to continue his studies at the University of Paris. After he had received and rejected an offer to teach at his high school alma mater, his Fellowship was renewed, and he traveled to Germany to resume his studies at the University of Munich. During the year he was housemaster of Canterbury School, he sold his first short story, Strictly Platonic, to Liberty magazine. In 1934, he accepted a position in the literature department at Sarah Lawrence College, a post he would retain until retiring in 1972.

During his lifetime, he wrote more than 40 books including The Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Mythic Image, the four-volume The Masks of God, and The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers. During the 1940s and 1950s, he collaborated with Swami Nikhilananda on translations of the Upanishads and The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. He received several awards including National Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Contributions to Creative Literature and the 1985 National Arts Club Gold Medal of Honor in Literature. He died after a brief struggle with cancer on October 30, 1987.

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