Description: Condition: Good. Packed in a BOX with cardboard backing and padding. (See Photos!) First Edition, 1968. Pages: not written on, clean, light tanning, odor free. Dust Jacket: clean, bright, bumping and rubbing to edges, creases and small tears to edges, creases at back top, crease at front bottom right, missing part of top spine edge. Same or next day shipping (weekdays and Saturdays)! Ships from California. ABOUT: For modern man mythology has assumed a new and revitalized function. It has become creative by unlocking for the individual the sources of his highest powers and aspirations. In the past each civilization was the vehicle of its own long-estabished mythology, developing in character as its myth was progressively interpreted and elucidated. Today the individual is the center of his own mythology. This is the first epoch in history to witness the creation of myth the structure of man's inner life projected by the gifted writers, artists, and musicians of our time. We are abandoning alien and outworn symbols, petrified in tradition, and adopting new ones that arise from the dynamic depths of the unconscious. In a physical universe of unceasing changes we are learning to look for guidance to the thrust and mobility of the images within us. This new attitude, more fateful in shaping our future than any external happening, is Joseph Campbell's theme in the present volume, which embraces the whole inner story of modern culture, interpreting its evolution with boldness, originality, and immense erudition. Tracing the disintegration of the orthodox tradition from the middle of the twelfth century, he shows how a galaxy of mythologies, produced by creative geniuses, burst through the barrier of custom to serve as guiding lights and structuring forces for our emergent civilization. The Arthurian Legend from Gottfried von Strassburg and Wolfram von Eschenbach to Richard Wagner, Thomas Mann, and James Joyce extends like a majestic rainbow across the centuries. With incomparable critical acuity and a wealth of illustrative material Campbell demonstrates in detail the psychological forces that sustain this huge luminous arch
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Binding: Hardcover
Publication Year: 1968
Language: English
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Author: Joseph Campbell
Publisher: Viking Press
Topic: Folklore, Mythology
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Year Printed: 1968
