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Informationen zum Autor Joseph Campbell was an American author and teacher best known for his work in the field of comparative mythology. He was born in New York City in 1904, and from early childhood loved to read about American Indians and frequently visited the American Museum of Natural History, where he became captivated by the museum’s collection of totem poles. From those days onward, Campbell’s interest in mythology grew and deepened. He was educated at Columbia University, where he specialized in medieval literature, and, after earning a master’s degree, continued his studies at universities in Paris and Munich. Throughout his life, he traveled extensively and wrote prolifically, authoring many books, including the classic The Hero with a Thousand Faces, the four-volume series The Masks of God, Myths to Live By, The Inner Reaches of Outer Space, and the Historical Atlas of World Mythology. Campbell died in 1987. In 1988, a series of television interviews, Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers, introduced his views to millions of people. Klappentext Standout correspondence spanning the famed mythologist's entire career sheds incomparable light on a fabled generation of artists and thinkers Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Letter Writing: The Imagination's Personal Genre by Dennis Patrick Slattery, PhD Introduction: Joseph Campbell's Correspondence: A Portrait of an Epoch by Evans Lansing Smith, PhD Chapter 1: Wanderings: Paris to Pacific Grove Chapter 2: The 1940s: Decade Mirabilis Chapter 3: The 1950s: The Banquet Years Chapter 4: The Masks of God : 1959-1968 Chapter 5: Political Matters: Thomas Mann to the Vietnam War Chapter 6: The 1970s Chapter 7: The Last Decade
