The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays 1959-1987

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The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays 1959-1987
by Joseph Campbell

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Table of Contents

Mythology and History

• Comparative Mythology as an Introduction to Cross-Cultural Studies
• The Historical Development of Mythology
• Renewal Myths and Rites of the Primitive Hunters and Planters
• Johann Jacob Bachofen
• The Mystery Number of the Goddess

Mythology and the Arts

• Creativity
• The Interpretation of Symbolic Forms
• Mythological Themes in Creative Literature and Art
• The Occult in Myth and Literature
• Erotic Irony and Mythic Forms in the Art of Thomas Mann

Appendices

• Appendix 1: Select Bibliography of the Works of Joseph Campbell
• Appendix 2: Reading List for Joseph Campbell’s Class on Mythology at Sarah Lawrence College

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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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