Creative Mythology
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| Author | Joseph Campbell |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Mythology |
| Published | 1968 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 730 (1968 Secker & Warburg edition) |
| ISBN | 978-0140194401 |
Creative Mythology is volume IV of The Masks of God by comparative mythologist Joseph Campbell.
Summary
[edit]Campbell writes that in "creative mythology", "the individual has had an experience of his own - of order, horror, beauty, or even mere exhilaration-which he seeks to communicate through signs; and if his realization has been of a certain depth and import, his communication will have the force and value of living myth-for those, that is to say, who receive and respond to it of themselves, with recognition, uncoerced.”[1] Campbell gives as examples Thomas Mann and James Joyce.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Campbell, Joseph (1991). Creative Mythology. Arkana. p. 4. ISBN 0-14-019440-1.
- ^ Campbell, Creative Mythology p40
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