The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension

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HarperPerennial, 1990 - Fiction - 248 pages
"Exploration in the mythological dimensions of fairy tales, legends, and symbols"--Cover subtitle.

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Contents

Introduction
3
The Fairy Tale
9
The Types of Story
15
Copyright

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Common terms and phrases

American animals Antti Aarne appear archaic archetypes become Behold bird Black Elk body brahman buffalo C. G. Jung Çatal Hüyük caves century ceremonial chalcolithic Christian consciousness cosmic cult culture death divine dream early earth East experience Father Feirefiz Figure four Franz Boas function furthermore goddess gods Grail Grimm Hacilar Hactcin heaven Holy human hunters hunting Ibid Indian individual James Joyce Jicarilla Apache Jung known late legend living lotus magic maize mandala meaning Mellaart metaphysical Middle millennium mind moon mother mystery myth mythology Natufians Neolithic North Oglala Sioux Oriental paleolithic period plants poet primitive psyche psychological reference rites ritual Róheim Samarra sense shaman Sioux social society soul sphere spiritual story supra swastika symbol tale things thought tion titan tradition tree tribes Trois-Frères Tungus universe Upanishad vision Wakan Tanka woman York

About the author (1990)

Joseph Campbell was born in White Plains, New York on March 26, 1904. He received a B.A. in English literature in 1925 and an M.A. in Medieval literature in 1927 from Columbia University. He was awarded a Proudfit Traveling Fellowship to continue his studies at the University of Paris. After he had received and rejected an offer to teach at his high school alma mater, his Fellowship was renewed, and he traveled to Germany to resume his studies at the University of Munich. During the year he was housemaster of Canterbury School, he sold his first short story, Strictly Platonic, to Liberty magazine. In 1934, he accepted a position in the literature department at Sarah Lawrence College, a post he would retain until retiring in 1972. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 40 books including The Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Mythic Image, the four-volume The Masks of God, and The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers. During the 1940s and 1950s, he collaborated with Swami Nikhilananda on translations of the Upanishads and The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. He received several awards including National Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Contributions to Creative Literature and the 1985 National Arts Club Gold Medal of Honor in Literature. He died after a brief struggle with cancer on October 30, 1987.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension
AuthorJoseph Campbell
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherHarperPerennial, 1990
Original fromIndiana University
DigitizedJun 19, 2009
ISBN006055195X, 9780060551957
Length248 pages
Subjects › 

Fiction / Action & Adventure
Reference / Signs & Symbols
Social Science / Folklore & Mythology
  
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