The Power of Myth

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Mythology/Philosophy #19.95 (Pöblishors Prict- M-íkIut in Canada) Í never met anyone who could better teli a story. Listening to Joseph Campbell talk of primal soeieties, I was transported to the vvide plains under the great dome of the open sky, or to the forest den se, beneath a eanopy of trees, and I began to understand how the voiees of the gods spoke froni the wind and thunder, and the spirit of God flowed in every niountain streani, and the whole earth bloómed as a saered plaee-'the realni of mythie imagination." I ¦ -BillMoyers Joseph Campbell, who died on Oetober 31, 1987, was the worlds foremost authority on mythology, a preeminent seholar, writer, and teaeher whose work has had a profound influenee on millions. To him, mythology was "the song of the universe, the niusie of the spheres/' /'zff/b . " Z "í ¦¦ In Tiíe Powek of Mytii, he and distinguished journalist Bili Moyers offer a brilliant eombination of wisdom and wit in eonversations that rangé from modem marriage... Tovább

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Mythology/Philosophy #19.95 (Pöblishors Prict- M-íkIut in Canada) Í never met anyone who could better teli a story. Listening to Joseph Campbell talk of primal soeieties, I was transported to the vvide plains under the great dome of the open sky, or to the forest den se, beneath a eanopy of trees, and I began to understand how the voiees of the gods spoke froni the wind and thunder, and the spirit of God flowed in every niountain streani, and the whole earth bloómed as a saered plaee-'the realni of mythie imagination." I ¦ -BillMoyers Joseph Campbell, who died on Oetober 31, 1987, was the worlds foremost authority on mythology, a preeminent seholar, writer, and teaeher whose work has had a profound influenee on millions. To him, mythology was "the song of the universe, the niusie of the spheres/' /'zff/b . " Z "í ¦¦ In Tiíe Powek of Mytii, he and distinguished journalist Bili Moyers offer a brilliant eombination of wisdom and wit in eonversations that rangé from modem marriage ("Marriage is a relationship. When you make the saerifiee in marriage, youYe saerifieing not to eaeh other but to unity in a relationship") to virgin births, from savior figures to heroie figures sueh as Luké Skywalker from Star Wars ("... By overeoming the dark passions, the hero symbolizes our ability to eontrol the irrational savrages vvithin us" ). Ti i e Power ofMyth is a great suniming up of Joseph Campbells work, sureto stand alongside his two eelebrated elassies The Hero with a Thousand Faees and TheMasks ot'God and his reeent The Atlas of World Mythology. Joseph Campbell began his eareer in 1934 as an instruetor at Sarah Lawrenee College, where he tauglit for almost forty years, and where the Joseph Campbell Chair in Comparative Mythology was established in his honor. Bili Moyers is an aeelainied television journalist, widely respeeted for his work both at CBS News and at PBS, where one of his primarv efforts has been to bring to television outstanding thinkers of our time. Betty Sue Flowers teaehes poetry and myth at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author and eo-author of several books, ineluding Browning and the Modern Tradition. Four Shields of Power, and Daughters and Fathers. Vissza