king and the corpse
Subtitle: tales of the soul's conquest of evil
By: Heinrich Zimmer ; edited by Joseph Campbell.
Contributors: Campbell, Joseph, 1904-
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Bollingen series -- 11
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Folk literature -- History and criticism
Work titles: Selections.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Most contributions originally in German.
Table of contents: title: Abu Kasem's slippers; title: A Pagan hero and a Christian saint; title: Four romances from the cycle of King Arthur. Gawain and the Green Knight ; The Knight with the lion ; Lancelot ; Merlin; title: The king and the corpse; title: Four episodes from the romance of the goddess. The involuntary creation ; The involuntary marriage ; The voluntary death ; Shiva mad; title: On the Sipra shore.