Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension - Selected Essays 1944-1968 (Collected Works of Joseph Campbell Series) (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell) - Hardcover

Joseph Campbell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1577312104 ISBN 13: 9781577312109

Publisher: New World Library, 2012

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Rare book

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Review:

"In this book, as in his other work, Campbell displays his immense learning, drawing evidence to support his case from virtually every branch of human knowledge."
-- The New York Times Book Review

"No one in our century -- not Freud, not Thomas Mann, not Lévi-Strauss -- has so brought the mythical sense of the world and its eternal figures back into our everyday consciousness."
-- James Hillman

"Campbell has become one of the rarest of intellectuals in American life: a serious thinker who has been embraced by the popular culture."
-- Newsweek

"In our generation the mythographer who has had the fullest command of the huge scholarly literature, the analytic ability, the lucid prose, and the needed staying power has been Joseph Campbell."
-- Commentary

Synopsis:

This book explores the individual and geographical origins of myth, outlining the full range of mythology from the Grimms' collection of German fairy tales to American Indian legends. Originally published in 1951 and then augmented in 1969, this collection of essays describes the symbolic content of stories: how they are linked to human experience and how they have changed over time.

About this edition

• Publisher: New World Library
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1577312104
• ISBN 13: 9781577312109
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 192