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Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension: Selected Essays, 1944-1968
by Campbell, Joseph
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1577312104
- ISBN 13
- 9781577312109
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About This Item
Novato, CA: New World Library, 2002. xv, 238 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Originally published: New York: Viking Press, 1969. Tight, clean copy. Stated First printing. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "In these essays, Joseph Campbell explores the origins of myth--from Grimm fairy tales to Native American legends. He explains how the symbolic content of myth is linked to universal human experience and how myths and experiences change over time." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
Synopsis
In The Flight of the Wild Gander, mythologist Joseph Campbell collected a number of his most thought-provoking early essays and forwards into a single volume. Essays include "Bios and Mythos" (on the psycho-biological sources of mythic forms and symbols), "Mythogenesis" (on the rise and fall of a single Native American legend) and "The Symbol without Meaning" (about the secularization of myths in the modern age).
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- Title
- Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension: Selected Essays, 1944-1968
- Author
- Campbell, Joseph
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 1577312104
- ISBN 13
- 9781577312109
- Publisher
- New World Library
- Place of Publication
- Novato, CA
- Date Published
- 2002
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Collectible
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES;
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