The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil

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The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil
by Heinrich Zimmer; edited by Joseph Campbell

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Table of Contents

Editor's Foreword

The Dilettante among Symbols

PART I

Abu Kasem's Slippers

A Pagan Hero and a Christian Saint

Four Romances from the Cycle of King Arthur

1. Gawain and the Green Knight
2. The Knight with the Lion
3. Lancelot
4. Merlin

The King and the Corpse

PART II

Four Episodes from the Romance of the Goddess

1. The Involuntary Creation
2. The Involuntary Marriage
3. The Voluntary Death
4. Shiva Mad

On the Sipra Shore

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[This Table of Contents was originally posted to YouAreThat.org. I may have omitted some of the scholarly apparatus from this table of contents, such as Acknowledgements, the Index, etc.]

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