The Power Of Myth

✏Book Title : The Power of Myth
✏Author : Joseph Campbell
✏Publisher : Anchor
✏Release Date : 2011-05-18
✏Pages : 320
✏ISBN : 9780307794727
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Power of Myth Book Summary : The national bestseller, now available in a non-illustrated, standard format paperback edition The Power of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminent scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence on millions of people--including Star Wars creator George Lucas. To Campbell, mythology was the “song of the universe, the music of the spheres.” With Bill Moyers, one of America’s most prominent journalists, as his thoughtful and engaging interviewer, The Power of Myth touches on subjects from modern marriage to virgin births, from Jesus to John Lennon, offering a brilliant combination of intelligence and wit. This extraordinary book reveals how the themes and symbols of ancient narratives continue to bring meaning to birth, death, love, and war. From stories of the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece and Rome to traditions of Buddhism, Hinduism and Christianity, a broad array of themes are considered that together identify the universality of human experience across time and culture. An impeccable match of interviewer and subject, a timeless distillation of Campbell’s work, The Power of Myth continues to exert a profound influence on our culture. From the Trade Paperback edition.

✏Book Title : Poppaea Sabina The Power of Myth
✏Author : J P Graham
✏Publisher : Lulu.com
✏Release Date :
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✏ISBN : 9780244096984
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Book Title : Star Wars
✏Author : DK Publishing, Inc
✏Publisher : Dk Pub
✏Release Date : 2000-03
✏Pages : 48
✏ISBN : 0789455919
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Star Wars Book Summary : This photographically illustrated guide charts Luke Skywalker's "hero's journey" from his farm boy origins to the fulfillment of his quest to become a Jedi Knight. Full color.

✏Book Title : Pathways to Bliss
✏Author : Joseph Campbell
✏Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
✏Release Date : 2009-12
✏Pages : 402
✏ISBN : 9781458749116
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Pathways to Bliss Book Summary : Joseph Campbell famously defined myth as ''other people's religion.'' But he also said that one of the basic functions of myth is to help each individual through the journey of life, providing a sort of travel guide or map to reach fulfillment - or, as he called it, bliss. For Campbell, many of the world's most powerful myths support the individual's heroic path toward bliss. In Pathways to Bliss, Campbell examines this personal, psychological side of myth. Like his classic bestselling books Myths to Live By and The Power of Myth, Pathways to Bliss draws from Campbell's popular lectures and dialogues, which highlight his remarkable storytelling and ability to apply the larger themes of world mythology to personal growth and the quest for transformation. Here he anchors mythology's symbolic wisdom to the individual, applying the most poetic mythical metaphors to the challenges of our daily lives. Campbell dwells on life's important questions. Combining cross-cultural stories with the teachings of modern psychology, he examines the ways in which our myths shape and enrich our lives. He explores the many insights of Carl Jung; the notion of self as the hero; and how East and West differ in their approaches to the ego. The book also includes an extensive question-and-answer session that ranges from mythological readings of the Bible to how the Hero's Journey unfolds for women. With his usual wit and insight, Campbell draws connections between ancient symbols and modern art, schizophrenia and the Hero's Journey. Along the way, he shows how myth can help each of us truly identify and follow our bliss.

✏Book Title : Mythmaking on Madison Avenue
✏Author : Sal Randazzo
✏Publisher : Irwin Professional Publishing
✏Release Date : 1993
✏Pages : 289
✏ISBN : 1557384274
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Mythmaking on Madison Avenue Book Summary : Frpm Betty Crocker to Harley Davidson, "Brand Mythology" is critical in today's era of rampant product parity. Randazzo demonstrates how advertising professionals leverage the collective pool of cultural, psychological, and mythical elements to create and maintain long-term brand identity and product loyalty.

✏Book Title : The Hero s Journey
✏Author : Joseph Campbell
✏Publisher : New World Library
✏Release Date : 2003
✏Pages : 249
✏ISBN : 1577314042
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Hero s Journey Book Summary : 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."

✏Book Title : Body Eloquence
✏Author : Nancy Mellon
✏Publisher : Elite Books
✏Release Date : 2008
✏Pages : 253
✏ISBN : 9781604150285
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Body Eloquence Book Summary : Have you ever had an ache or pain, and wished your body could talk to you and tell you what was wrong? You're not alone! Master storyteller Nancy Mellon, author of Body Eloquence, has guided scores of people through the process of giving their bodies a voice. Drawing from mythology, medicine, biology and energetic healing, she finds the essential stories that characterize each organ of the human body, and trains us how to use these resources to identify the messages that our organs are communicating to us. The heart, for instance, is not just a durable pump, sending oxygenated blood to every cell. It's also a representation of goodwill; a heart-to-heart connection, or an open-hearted friend, are universal stories we can all identify. But a hard-hearted person is one we all avoid. These archetypes are found in mythologies from Native American traditions to Scandinavian tribes to Greek history, and are woven together in a fascinating matrix in Body Eloquence, showing how our organs are part of our psyche, our history, and our collective mythology.

✏Book Title : Politics of Myth The
✏Author : Robert Ellwood
✏Publisher : SUNY Press
✏Release Date :
✏Pages : 207
✏ISBN : 9781438402024
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Politics of Myth The Book Summary : The Politics of Myth examines the political views implicit in the mythological theories of three of the most widely read popularizers of myth in the twentieth century, C. G. Jung, Mircea Eliade, and Joseph Campbell. All three had intellectual roots in the anti-modern pessimism and romanticism that also helped give rise to European fascism, and all three have been accused of fascist and anti-Semitic sentiments. At the same time, they themselves tended toward individualistic views of the power of myth, believing that the world of ancient myth contained resources that could be of immense help to people baffled by the ambiguities and superficiality of modern life. Robert Ellwood details the life and thought of each mythologist and the intellectual and spiritual worlds within which they worked. He reviews the damaging charges that have been made about their politics, taking them seriously while endeavoring to put them in the context of the individual’s entire career and lifetime contribution. Above all, he seeks to extract from their published work the view of the political world that seems most congruent with it.

✏Book Title : The Path of the Everyday Hero
✏Author : Lorna Ruth Catford
✏Publisher : Tarcher
✏Release Date : 1991
✏Pages : 242
✏ISBN : UCSC:32106010119961
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Path of the Everyday Hero Book Summary : The Path of the Everyday Hero is a unique and powerful workbook to guide us along in our search for answers to five major challenges of life. Each challenge is compared to a great myth, and the reader is the hero or heroine who must "take a great journey" to overcome an obstacle blocking the path to success. Illustrated.

✏Book Title : From Lightness to Darkness
✏Author : Esther Leuener
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 2011
✏Pages : 152
✏ISBN : OCLC:767533826
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Book Title : The Key
✏Author : James N. Frey
✏Publisher : St. Martin's Press
✏Release Date : 2002-08-03
✏Pages : 272
✏ISBN : 9781429932288
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Key Book Summary : In his widely read guides How to Write a Damn Good Novel and How to Write a Damn Good Novel II: Advanced Techniques, popular novelist and fiction-writing coach James N. Frey showed tens of thousands of writers how--starting with rounded, living, breathing, dynamic characters--to structure a novel that sustains its tension and development and ends in a satisfying, dramatic climax. Now, in The Key, Frey takes his no-nonsense, "Damn Good" approach and applies it to Joseph Campbell's insights into the universal structure of myths. Myths, says Frey, are the basis of all storytelling, and their structures and motifs are just as powerful for contemporary writers as they were for Homer. Frey begins with the qualities found in mythic heros--ancient and modern--such as the hero's special talent, his or her wound, status as an "outlaw," and so on. He then demonstrates how the hero is initiated--sent on a mission, forced to learn the new rules, tested, and suffers a symbolic death and rebirth--before he or she can return home. Using dozens of classical and contemporary novels and films as models, Frey shows how these motifs and forms work their powerful magic on the reader's imagination. The Key is designed as a practical step-by-step guide for fiction writers and screen writers who want to shape their own ideas into a mythic story.

✏Book Title : Guardians of Power The Myth of the Liberal Media
✏Author : David Edwards
✏Publisher : Lulu Press, Inc
✏Release Date : 2014-07-24
✏Pages :
✏ISBN : 9781312380233
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Guardians of Power The Myth of the Liberal Media Book Summary : Guardians of Power ought to be required reading in every media college. It is the most important book about journalism I can remember." John Pilger "Regular critical analysis of the media, filling crucial gaps and correcting the distortions of ideological prisms, has never been more important. Media Lens has performed a major public service by carrying out this task with energy, insight, and care." Noam Chomsky "Media Lens is doing an outstanding job of pressing the mainstream media to at least follow their own stated principles and meet their public service obligations. [This is] fun as well as enlightening." Edward S. Herman Can a corporate media system be expected to tell the truth about a world dominated by corporations?

✏Book Title : Nero
✏Author : Edward Champlin
✏Publisher : Harvard University Press
✏Release Date : 2009-07
✏Pages : 360
✏ISBN : 0674029364
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Nero Book Summary : The Roman emperor Nero is remembered by history as the vain and immoral monster who fiddled while Rome burned. Edward Champlin reinterprets Nero's enormities on their own terms, as the self-conscious performances of an imperial actor with a formidable grasp of Roman history and mythology and a canny sense of his audience. Nero murdered his younger brother and rival to the throne, probably at his mother's prompting. He then murdered his mother, with whom he may have slept. He killed his pregnant wife in a fit of rage, then castrated and married a young freedman because he resembled her. He mounted the public stage to act a hero driven mad or a woman giving birth, and raced a ten-horse chariot in the Olympic games. He probably instigated the burning of Rome, for which he then ordered the spectacular punishment of Christians, many of whom were burned as human torches to light up his gardens at night. Without seeking to rehabilitate the historical monster, Champlin renders Nero more vividly intelligible by illuminating the motives behind his theatrical gestures, and revealing the artist who thought of himself as a heroic figure. Nero is a brilliant reconception of a historical account that extends back to Tacitus, Suetonius, and Cassius Dio. The effortless style and artful construction of the book will engage any reader drawn to its intrinsically fascinating subject.

✏Book Title : Bounce The Myth of Talent and the Power of Practice
✏Author : Matthew Syed
✏Publisher : HarperCollins UK
✏Release Date : 2010-04-29
✏Pages : 272
✏ISBN : 9780007350537
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Bounce The Myth of Talent and the Power of Practice Book Summary : From the author of You Are Awesome: Find Your Confidence and Dare to be Brilliant at (Almost) Anything Essential reading for an astounding summer of sport; If you’ve ever wondered what makes a champion, Bounce has the answer. This edition does not include illustrations.

✏Book Title : Neil Gaiman s The Sandman and Joseph Campbell
✏Author : Stephen Rauch
✏Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
✏Release Date : 2003
✏Pages : 152
✏ISBN : 159224212X
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Neil Gaiman s The Sandman and Joseph Campbell Book Summary : The first scholarly book-length examination of the work of comics legend Neil Gaiman includes detailed analysis of his best-selling "Sandman" and "Death" series, a look at his work's relationship to Joseph Campbell, and such topics as "Living in a Desacralized World," "The Relationship of Dreams and Myth in Campbell, Jung, and Gaiman's Sandman," "Humanization, Change, and Rebirth: The Hero's Journey," "The Role of the Artist and the Art of Storytelling," and more. A fascinating journey behind the comics work of one of the most interesting and challenging popular writers of today, Neil Gaiman's The Sandman and Joseph Campbell: In Search of the Modern Myth is the book which Gaiman's fans have been waiting for!

✏Book Title : The Power of I Am
✏Author : John Maxwell Taylor
✏Publisher : Frog Books
✏Release Date : 2005-12-10
✏Pages : 237
✏ISBN : 9781583941423
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Power of I Am Book Summary : "Combining principles from martial arts, mindfulness, body-centered awareness, and spiritual and scientific principles, The Power of I Am is a mix of practical tools, stories, and life lessons that teaches readers real world personal empowerment through g

✏Book Title : The Power of Choice
✏Author : Druscilla French
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 1998
✏Pages : 370
✏ISBN : OCLC:57728396
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Power of Choice Book Summary : The purpose of this study is to critique the work of a mythologist, Joseph Campbell, a literary critic, Northrop Frye, a fiction writer, Mark Twain and a depth psychologist, C.G. Jung in order to discover the underlying assumptions about life which influence these authors' lives and the lives of their readers. Joseph Campbell's four functions of mythology are expanded to include a distinction between orthodox functions and heretical functions of myth. Campbell's mythological formula, the "monomyth" is shown as a construct that subtly imposes its dogmatic frame of reference by insisting that a certain kind of heroic journey is universally recognized as the path of divinity and highest form of individuation. The critique of Northrop Frye's theory of myth is an attempt to challenge the notion that his is "a rational account of some of the structural principles of western literature. This study will argue that Frye's "structural principles of literature" are instead an accurate description of western literary orthodoxy, an orthodoxy that, by definition, cannot hear the voice of "heretics" who do not view life through the filters of this world order. Mark Twain's two novels of boyhood, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) provide examples of the distinction between an orthodox novel and an heretical one. The concept of divinity which is described by C.G. Jung distinguishes between God and "God-image" a distinction based upon Kantian philosophical perspective. This study will attempt to show how much of Jung's "God-image" was influenced, not only by Kantian "categories of knowing" such as time and space, but by Jung's culture, religion and historical circumstances. Additionally, his personal relationships with his mother and father and his relationship with Freud affected his image of divinity. It is the unending task of individuals and human collectives to become increasingly conscious of the mythologies we live in. The greater our awareness, the greater our capacity to chose the manner in which we participate in them. This dissertation is in the tradition of the humanities, whose task it is to revisit and critique all assumptions regarding what is a lived life or a wasted life, an individuated life or an unindividuated one.

✏Book Title : The Magic Mirror
✏Author : Elizabeth M. Baeten
✏Publisher : SUNY Press
✏Release Date : 1996-01-01
✏Pages : 245
✏ISBN : 079143091X
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Magic Mirror Book Summary : Analyzes the theories of myth of Cassirer, Barthes, Eliade, and Hillman and offers an alternative original account of myth-making as an essential strand of cultural production.

✏Book Title : Doctor Who and Philosophy
✏Author : Courtland Lewis
✏Publisher : Open Court
✏Release Date : 2010-10-22
✏Pages : 288
✏ISBN : 9780812697254
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Doctor Who and Philosophy Book Summary : Not only is Doctor Who the longest-running science fiction TV show in history, but it has also been translated into numerous languages, broadcast around the world, and referred to as the “way of the future” by some British politicians. The Classic Doctor Who series built up a loyal American cult following, with regular conventions and other activities. The new series, relaunched in 2005, has emerged from culthood into mass awareness, with a steadily growing viewership and major sales of DVDs. The current series, featuring the Eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith, is breaking all earlier records, in both the UK and the US. Doctor Who is a continuing story about the adventures of a mysterious alien known as “the Doctor,” a traveller of both time and space whose spacecraft is the TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space), which from the outside looks like a British police telephone box of the 1950s. The TARDIS is “bigger on the inside than on the outside”—actually the interior is immense. The Doctor looks human, but has two hearts, and a knowledge of all languages in the universe. Periodically, when the show changes the leading actor, the Doctor “regenerates.”

✏Book Title : The Myth of Individualism
✏Author : Peter L. Callero
✏Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
✏Release Date : 2009
✏Pages : 175
✏ISBN : 0742599906
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Myth of Individualism Book Summary : Individualism : the power of a myth -- Becoming a person : the power of symbols -- Conformity and disobedience : the power of the group -- Family matters : the power of social class -- Globalization : the power of capitalism -- From "me" to "we" : the power of collective action.

✏Book Title : The Power of Hope
✏Author : Anthony Scioli
✏Publisher : Simon and Schuster
✏Release Date : 2010-03-17
✏Pages : 408
✏ISBN : 9780757393440
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Power of Hope Book Summary : The must-read inspirational book of the year designed to combat a global "hope shortage." Following in the footsteps of successful inspirational books like The Power of Positive Thinking and The Purpose Driven Life comes the definitive guide for understanding, developing, and strengthening our most important emotion: Hope. The timing couldn't be better. In this engaging self-help "tour de force" authors Anthony Scioli, Ph.D., and Henry Biller, Ph.D., two renowned clinical psychologists, offer thought-provoking insights, compelling case studies, and practical "hope" exercises rooted in spirituality, religion, psychology, and philosophy, as well as their own personal stories of resilience. The result: a deeper assimilation of hope in daily life. In The Power of Hope, readers will encounter: Strategies for overcoming nine kinds of hopelessness as well as for combating depression and suicide Advice on utilizing hope to manage the "day-to-day"—from work and relationships to serious illness, grief, or loss Ways in which hope can impact overall health, exercise, and diet Hope self-assessments, including a hope provider and spiritual intelligence scale Whether one is dealing with a serious health issue, a traumatic past, or just trying to thrive in a time of political and economic unrest, hope is the key to fostering success, love, and survival. The Power of Hope will inspire readers with renewed faith and possibility. "This book is a must read for anyone dealing with adversity and a resource that every healthcare professional should own."—Bernie Siegel, M.D., author of Love, Medicine & Miracles and Help Me to Heal

✏Book Title : Fairy Tale as Myth Myth as Fairy Tale
✏Author : Jack Zipes
✏Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
✏Release Date : 2013-07-18
✏Pages : 208
✏ISBN : 9780813143910
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Fairy Tale as Myth Myth as Fairy Tale Book Summary : " Explores the historical rise of the literary fairy tale as genre in the late seventeenth century. In his examinations of key classical fairy tales, Zipes traces their unique metamorphoses in history with stunning discoveries that reveal their ideological relationship to domination and oppression. Tales such as Beauty and the Beast, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, and Rumplestiltskin have become part of our everyday culture and shapers of our identities. In this lively work, Jack Zipes explores the historical rise of the literary fairy tale as genre in the late seventeenth century and examines the ideological relationship of classic fairy tales to domination and oppression in Western society. The fairy tale received its most "mythic" articulation in America. Consequently, Zipes sees Walt Disney's Snow White as an expression of American male individualism, film and literary interpretations of L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz as critiques of American myths, and Robert Bly's Iron John as a misunderstanding of folklore and traditional fairy tales. This book will change forever the way we look at the fairy tales of our youth.

✏Book Title : Kenneth Burke on Myth
✏Author : Lawrence Coupe
✏Publisher : Routledge
✏Release Date : 2013-10-18
✏Pages : 206
✏ISBN : 9781135349073
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Kenneth Burke on Myth Book Summary : Kenneth Burke--rhetorician, philosopher, linguist, sociologist, literary and music critic, crank--was one of the foremost theorists of literary form. He did not fit tidily into any philosophical school, nor was he reducible to any simple set of principles or ideas. He published widely, and is probably best known for two of his classic works, A Rhetoric of Motive and Philosophy of Literary Form. His observations on myth, however, were never systematic, and much of his writing on literary theory and other topics cannot be fully understood without fleshing out his thoughts on myth and mythmaking.

✏Book Title : The Sacred Monstrous
✏Author : Wendy C. Hamblet
✏Publisher : Lexington Books
✏Release Date : 2004
✏Pages : 111
✏ISBN : 0739107437
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Sacred Monstrous Book Summary : In The Sacred Monstrous author Wendy Hamblet traces the historical and social fact of violence through the work of Girard, Bloch, Lorenz and Burket. She takes up the charge advanced by social theorists, anthropologists and others that violence is steeped in our being; it pervades our generations and is imbedded in the ethos of our modern institutions. Hamblet's discussion of human history re-frames our understanding of how violence works in history and society. The Sacred Monstrous is a salient work of continentally informed philosophy that contributes significantly to any discussion of violence and conflict in the social sciences.

✏Book Title : Myths of the Underworld Journey
✏Author : Radcliffe G. Edmonds, III
✏Publisher : Cambridge University Press
✏Release Date : 2004-09-20
✏Pages :
✏ISBN : 1139456008
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Myths of the Underworld Journey Book Summary : This book was first published in 2004. Plato, Aristophanes and the creators of the 'Orphic' gold tablets employ the traditional tale of a journey to the realm of the dead to redefine, within the mythic narrative, the boundaries of their societies. Rather than being the relics of a faded ritual tradition or the products of Orphic influence, these myths can only reveal their meanings through a close analysis of the specific ways in which each author makes use of the tradition. For these authors, myth is an agonistic discourse, neither a kind of sacred dogma nor a mere literary diversion, but rather a flexible tool that serves the wide variety of uses to which it is put. The traditional tale of the journey to the Underworld in Greek mythology is neither simple nor single, but each telling reveals a perspective on the cosmos, a reflection of the order of this world through the image of the other.

✏Book Title : Uses of Comparative Mythology RLE Myth
✏Author : Kenneth L. Golden
✏Publisher : Routledge
✏Release Date : 2015-03-05
✏Pages : 290
✏ISBN : 9781317550860
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Uses of Comparative Mythology RLE Myth Book Summary : This collection, first published in 1992, offers critical-interpretive essays on various aspects of the work of Joseph Campbell (1904-1987), one of a very few international experts on myth. Joseph Campbell examines myths and mythologies from a comparative point of view, and he stresses those similarities among myths the world over as they suggest an existing, transcendent unity of all humankind. His interpretations foster an openness, even a generous appreciation of, all myths; and he attempts to generate a broad, sympathetic understanding of the role of these ‘stories’ in human history, in our present-day lives, and in the possibilities of our future.

✏Book Title : Myth and the Making of Modernity
✏Author : Michael Bell
✏Publisher : Rodopi
✏Release Date : 1998
✏Pages : 260
✏ISBN : 9042005831
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Myth and the Making of Modernity Book Summary : The contributors to this collection of essays on the literary use of myth in the early twentieth century and its literary and philosophical precedents from romanticism onwards draw on a range of disciplines, from anthropology, comparative literature, and literary criticism, to philosophy and religious studies. The underlying assumption is that modernist myth-making does not retreat from modernity, but projects a mode of being for the future which the past could serve to define. Modernist myth is not an attempted recovery of an archaic form of life so much as a sophisticated self-conscious equivalent. Far from seeking a return to an earlier romantic valorizing of myth, these essays show how the true interest of early twentieth-century myth-making lies in the consciousness, affirmative as well as tragic, of living in a human world which, in so far as it must embody value, can have no ultimate grounding. Although myth may initially appear to be the archaic counterterm to modernity, it is thus also the paradigm on which modernity has repeatedly reconstructed, or come to understand, its own life forms. The very term myth, by combining, in its modern usage, the rival meanings of a grounding narrative and a falsehood, encapsulates a central problem of modernity: how to live, given what we know.

✏Book Title : The Hero with a Thousand Faces
✏Author : Joseph Campbell
✏Publisher : New World Library
✏Release Date : 2008
✏Pages : 418
✏ISBN : 9781577315933
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Hero with a Thousand Faces Book Summary : Discusses the universal legend of the hero in world mythology, focusing on the motif of the hero's journey through adventure and transformation.

✏Book Title : The Age of Lincoln and the Art of American Power 1848 1876
✏Author : William Nester
✏Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
✏Release Date : 2014-02-01
✏Pages : 392
✏ISBN : 9781612346595
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Age of Lincoln and the Art of American Power 1848 1876 Book Summary : Although Abraham Lincoln was among seven presidents who served during the tumultuous years between the end of the Mexican War and the end of the Reconstruction era, history has not been kind to the others: Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses S. Grant. In contrast, history sees Abraham Lincoln as a giant in character and deeds. During his presidency, he governed brilliantly, developed the economy, liberated four million people from slavery, reunified the nation, and helped enact the Homestead Act, among other accomplishments. He proved to be not only an outstanding commander in chief but also a skilled diplomat, economist, humanist, educator, and moralist. Lincoln achieved that and more because he was a master of the art of American power. He understood that the struggle for hearts and minds was the essence of politics in a democracy. He asserted power mostly by appealing to peopleÆs hopes rather than their fears. All along he tried to shape rather than reflect prevailing public opinions that differed from his own. To that end, he was brilliant at bridging the gap between progressives and conservatives by reining in the former and urging on the latter. His art of power ultimately reflected his unswerving devotion to the Declaration of IndependenceÆs principles and the ConstitutionÆs institutions, or as he so elegantly expressed it, ôto a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.ö

✏Book Title : Once and Future Myths
✏Author : Phil Cousineau
✏Publisher : Conari Press
✏Release Date : 2003-07-01
✏Pages : 342
✏ISBN : 1573248649
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Once and Future Myths Book Summary : Drawing from classic myths, a fascinating guide shows how people can obtain a deeper comprehension of work, love, creativity, and spirituality by becoming aware of myths in everyday life and presents new accounts of such contemporary mythmakers as Jim Morrison and Vincent van Gogh, explaining how these icons had a profound impact on history and culture. 35,000 first printing.