The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Joseph Campbell
- First Published: 1949
- Type of Work: Cultural criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Culture, Tradition, Mythology or myths, Literature, Manners or customs, Social life, Storytelling, Heroes or heroism, Learning or scholarship
Form and Content
Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces is primarily a scholarly study of a cultural phenomenon: the appearance of the figure of the hero in the various literatures of both Eastern and Western societies. In the course of his investigation, Campbell uses the tools of psychology and psychoanalysis to assist him in uncovering the answer to several intriguing questions. “Why is mythology everywhere the same, beneath its varieties of costume? And what does it teach?” More specifically, what similarities do the various stories from different...
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