Joseph Campbell: Mythic Imagination
Mythic Imagination
Buch
- Collected Short Fiction
- New World Library, 05/2022
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781608688098
- Bestellnummer: 10726704
- Umfang: 288 Seiten
- Gewicht: 340 g
- Maße: 214 x 138 mm
- Stärke: 20 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 10.5.2022
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
Enjoy seven never-before-collected stories from the master of myth and story himselfBefore he was the engaging professor who brought mythology into people’s living rooms through his conversations with Bill Moyers, before he became known as the thinker whose ideas influenced Star Wars, and before his now-beloved phrase “follow your bliss” entered the popular lexicon, Joseph Campbell was a young man who tried his hand at writing fiction. At the age of twenty-nine, after years of Depression-era unemployment, when he lived off money he had earned playing saxophone in a jazz combo and read the world’s great literature in a syllabus of his own design, Campbell published his first short story. That tale, included in this collection, remained the famed mythologist’s only published piece of fiction, until now.
In these stories, readers will find rich mythological symbolism, down-to-earth concerns with the ravages of the Second World War, and singular iterations of Campbell’s famous Hero’s Journey schema — all interwoven into a literary style that anticipates the genre that would years later come to be known as “magical realism.” Compelling in their own right, these seven stories are essential reading for longtime Campbell fans and the many who continue to discover him afresh.
Biografie
Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987) gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Mythenforscher des 20. Jahrhunderts. Als Professor und Autor machte sich der studierte Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftler einen Namen in der Fachwelt. Erst nach seinem Tod wurden er und seine Arbeit einem breiten Publikum bekannt: Im Jahre 1988 wurde erstmals die Interview-Reihe Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, in der Campbell mit dem Journalisten Bill Moyers über die Rolle der Mythologie in der Gesellschaft spricht, im amerikanischen Fernsehen ausgestrahlt - der Eindruck auf das Publikum war überwältigend.Mehr von Joseph Campbell
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