A college teacher of literature, Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) was an editor and popularizer of comparative mythology. He created comprehensive theories of mythology that synthesized the discoveries of modern science, psychology, art history, and literatur...
Born March 26, 1904 in New York. "We had a stable with a cow and a horse out in Westchester.... My father, Charles W. Campbell, was in the hosiery business, importing and wholesale. My career as a mythologist began almost immediately, with Buffalo Bill's...
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949) is a non-fiction book, and seminal work of comparative mythology by Joseph Campbell. In this publication, Campbell discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypal hero found in world mythologies. Since...
WORCESTER - President Bill Clinton will join more than 15,000 firefighters converging on Worcester from around the nation tomorrow morning for a massive memorial service honoring six men who died fighting a warehouse blaze. "There will be busloads," said George Burke, spokesman for...
Death came to Frank B. Wood, retired electrician, on December 9, 1914, at age sixty-nine. In an obituary in the New York Tribune two days later-the first to my knowledge ever penned to memorialize a man notable for nothing but his allegiance to a...
Let’s be blunt, as befits our author. David Mamet has directed more than a dozen movies, none of which suggest he has much of an affinity for the job. Things Change (1988), Homicide (1991), The Spanish Prisoner (1997), State and Main (2000) and the rest...
In Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces, Gilgamesh initially seeks immortality, but ultimately learns how to be a better king. The hero manifests Joseph Campbell's archetypal cycle of separation, initiation, and return.
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