The Masks of God: Creative Mythology

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Penguin Books, 1968 - Religion - 730 pages
This volume explores the whole inner story of modern culture since the Dark Ages, treating modern man's unique position as the creator of his own mythology.

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Creative Symbolization
3
Where Words Turn Back
9
The Trackless
27
Copyright

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Creative mythology
Joseph Campbell
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The Masks of God: Creative Mythology
Joseph Campbell
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adventure already Anfortas appeared Arthur artist asked beauty become Beowulf body Brangaene called castle Celtic century Christ Christian Condwiramurs consciousness Dante dark dead death divine dream earth experience eyes father Feirefiz Figure Finnegans Wake Fisher King force Gahmuret Gawain Gnostic goddess Gottfried Gottfried's Grail hand heart Heaven Hell hero Holy human Ibid idea individual Isolt James Joyce Joyce Jung knight lady legend living lord lover Magic Mountain Maimed King Mann Marvels mind mother Munsalvaesche mystery mystic myth mythic nature Nietzsche noble Occidental Mythology Orgeluse Oriental Mythology pain Parsifal Parzival philosophers poet queen realization rites rode Roman Saint Schopenhauer sense serpent social sorrow soul sphere spirit Stephen Stephen Dedalus Supra sword symbols T. S. Eliot theme things Thomas Mann thought tion Tonio Kröger Tristan turned Ulysses Wagner Wolfram's woman words wound young

About the author (1968)

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 Masks of God: Creative Mythology
A Penguin book : Mythology
Masks of God, Joseph Campbell
Volume 4 of Penguin book
AuthorJoseph Campbell
Edition17, illustrated, reprint, revised
PublisherPenguin Books, 1968
Original fromthe University of California
DigitizedOct 10, 2009
ISBN0140043071, 9780140043075
Length730 pages
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Religion / General
Social Science / Folklore & Mythology
  
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