The Hero with a Thousand Faces

• Author : Joseph Campbell
• Publisher : New World Library
• Release : 05 June 2023

This newly redesigned edition of Campbell's seminal 1949 work combines the insights of modern psychology with the author's revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. Illustrated.

• Author : Joseph Campbell
• Publisher : HarperCollins UK
• Release : 05 June 1988

In this compelling and influential work, Joseph Campbell scours the myths of the world to reveal the characteristics common to heroes from all cultures and periods.

• Author : BookCaps Study Guides Staff
• Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
• Release : 05 June 2023

The perfect companion to Joseph Campbell’s "Hero with a Thousand Faces," this study guide contains a chapter by chapter analysis of the book, a summary of the plot, and a guide to major themes. BookCap Study Guides do not contain text from the actual book, and are not meant to be purchased as alternatives to reading the book. We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or

• Author : Swift Reads
• Publisher : Swift Books LLC
• Release : 29 December 2020

Buy now to get the insights from Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Sample Insights: 1) Myths are the living inspiration of whatever has come from the activities of the human body and mind. In other words, humans invented mythologies based on dreams and observed patterns of behavior. Because these observations vary across different cultures, each culture produces mythologies that are relevant to it. 2) These mythologies, like our dreams, represent our unconscious and repressed desires, emotions, and fears. They

• Author : David MacGregor
• Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
• Release : 07 June 2022

Sherlock Holmes: The Hero With a Thousand Faces ambitiously takes on the task of explaining the continued popularity of Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective over the course of three centuries. In plays, films, TV shows, and other media, one generation after another has reimagined Holmes as a romantic hero, action hero, gentleman hero, recovering drug addict, weeping social crusader, high-functioning sociopath, and so on. In essence, Sherlock Holmes has become the blank slate upon which we write the heroic formula

• Author : Supersummary
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 04 November 2019

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides for challenging works of literature. This 116-page guide for "The Hero With A Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 8 chapters, as well as several more in-depth sections of expert-written literary analysis. Featured content includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay topics, and key themes like Myth and the Unconscious and The Enlightened Hero and the Oneness of All Things.

• Author : Joseph (Ethnologe) Campbell
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 05 June 2023

• Author : Maria Tatar
• Publisher : Liveright Publishing
• Release : 14 September 2021

World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long-buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman. The Heroine with 1,001 Faces dismantles the cult of warrior heroes, revealing a secret history of heroinism at the very heart of our collective cultural imagination. Maria Tatar, a leading authority on fairy tales and folklore, explores how heroines, rarely wielding a sword and often deprived of a pen, have flown beneath the radar even as they

• Author : Sharon Packer MD
• Publisher : ABC-CLIO
• Release : 14 December 2009

This comprehensive collection of essays written by a practicing psychiatrist shows that superheroes are more about superegos than about bodies and brawn, even though they contain subversive sexual subtexts that paved the path for major social shifts of the late 20th century.

• Author : Joseph Campbell
• Publisher : New World Library
• Release : 05 June 2023

Joseph Campbell, arguably the greatest mythologist of our time, was certainly one of our greatest storytellers. This new cloth edition of The Hero's Journey, published to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Campbell's birth, recounts his own quest and conveys the excitement of his lifelong exploration of our mythic traditions, what he called "the one great story of mankind."

• Author : Joseph Campbell
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 05 June 1962

• Author : Joseph Campbell
• Publisher : Turtleback Books
• Release : 05 June 1973

Amasses the characteristics exemplified by mythological heroes and religious leaders of all centuries and cultures into a unified whole

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 05 June 2023

The perfect companion to Joseph Campbell's "Hero with a Thousand Faces," this study guide contains a chapter by chapter analysis of the book, a summary of the plot, and a guide to major themes.BookCap Study Guides do not contain text from the actual book, and are not meant to be purchased as alternatives to reading the book.We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone

• Author : Joseph Campbell
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 05 June 1971

• Author : Joseph Campbell
• Publisher : Penguin Group
• Release : 05 June 2023

Written between 1962 and 1968, Campbell's four-volume work The Masks of God covers mythology from around the world, from ancient to modern. Where The Hero with a Thousand Faces focused on the commonality of mythology (the "elementary ideas"), the Masks of God books focus upon historical and cultural variations the monomyth takes on (the "folk ideas"). In other words, where The Hero with a Thousand Faces draws perhaps more from psychology, the Masks of God books draw more from anthropology and history.