Author: Joseph Campbell
Translator: Yoon-hee Hong
Publisher: Salim
Hardcover | 658 pages | 233*176mm
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About This Book
A Korean translation of Campbell's major study of the mythology of the world's
high civilizations over five millennia, with nearly 450 illustrations.
Mythologist Joseph Campbell was a masterful storyteller, able to weave tales
from every corner of the world into compelling, even spellbinding, narratives.
His interest in comparative mythology began in childhood, when the young Joe
Campbell was taken to see Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show at Madison Square
Garden. He started writing articles on Native American mythology in high school,
and the parallels between age-old myths and the mythic themes in literature and
dreams became a lifelong preoccupation. Campbell's best-known work is The Hero
with a Thousand Faces (1949), which became a New York Times paperback
best-seller for Princeton in 1988 after Campbell's star turn on the Bill Moyers
television program The Power of Myth.
During his early years as a professor of comparative religion at Sarah Lawrence
College, Campbell made the acquaintance of Indologist Heinrich Zimmer, a kindred
spirit who introduced him to Paul and Mary Mellon, the founders of Bollingen
Series. They chose Campbell's The Mythic Image as the culmination of the series,
giving it the closing position--number one hundred. A lavishly illustrated and
beautifully produced study of the mythology of the world's high civilizations,
The Mythic Image received a front-cover review in the New York Times Book Review
upon publication. Through the medium of visual art, the book explores the
relation of dreams to myth and demonstrates the important differences between
oriental and occidental interpretations of dreams and life.
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