The Mythic Dimension
Subtitle: Selected Essays, 1959–1987
By: Joseph Campbell ; edited by Antony Van Couvering.
Contributors: Van Couvering, Antony.
Edition: Second edition
Series: The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell
Publisher: New World Library
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Novato, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781577315940
Copyright date: 1997
Subjects: Mythology; Myth
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pp. 321–323) and index.
Table of contents: title: Comparative mythology as an introduction to cross-cultural studies; title: The historical development of mythology; title: Renewal myths and rites of the primitive hunters and planters; title: Johann Jacob Bachofen; title: The mystery number of the goddess; title: Creativity; title: The interpretation of symbolic forms; title: Mythological themes in creative literature and art; title: The occult in myth and literature; title: Erotic irony and mythic forms in the art of Thomas Mann.