The Mythic Image

The Mythic Image
by Joseph Campbell

The Mythic Image
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Author: Joseph Campbell
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1981-11-01
ISBN: 0691013891
Number of pages: 564
Publisher: Princeton University Press

Book Reviews of The Mythic Image

Book Review: Large Hardcover with Color versus Smaller Hardcover without
Summary: 5 Stars

While the softbound edition is quite good, if you have the room and can find it, there is a larger Princeton Polychrome Press hardbound with beautiful images that you may prefer.

The big 9.5 by 12 inch, 2 inch thick Princeton Polychrome Press edition has quite a few color plates and has larger black and white images with more dynamic range than those in the softbound 7.5 by 10 edition.

Unfortunately there are at least two hardbounds. Another one by "MJF books" which I mistakenly first bought, is the same size as the softbound, has no color plates, and is on less opaque paper. What led me and other reviewers to seek a hardbound was a note in the preface in the softbound: "In order to realize this paperback edition of The Mythic Image, in reduced format, thirty-four color plates are reproduced in black and white ..."

Unfortunately it is hard to tell which hardbound edition used sellers are actually offering, but Amazon lets you e-mail a used book's seller. An e-mailed question about color plates and the book's size worked for me.

The 9.5 by 12 format Polychrome Press hardbound is ISBN-10: 0-691-09869-7 and has a dust jacket with the same image as the cover of the softbound.

Summary of The Mythic Image

A paperback edition of Campbell's major study of the mythology of the world's high civilizations over five millennia. It includes nearly 450 illustrations. The text is the same as that of the 1974 edition.

Mythologist Joseph Campbell was a masterful storyteller, able to weave tales from every corner of the world into compelling, even spellbinding, narratives. His interest in comparative mythology began in childhood, when the young Joe Campbell was taken to see Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show at Madison Square Garden. He started writing articles on Native American mythology in high school, and the parallels between age-old myths and the mythic themes in literature and dreams became a lifelong preoccupation. Campbell's best-known work is The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), which became a New York Times paperback best-seller for Princeton in 1988 after Campbell's star turn on the Bill Moyers television program The Power of Myth.

During his early years as a professor of comparative religion at Sarah Lawrence College, Campbell made the acquaintance of Indologist Heinrich Zimmer, a kindred spirit who introduced him to Paul and Mary Mellon, the founders of Bollingen Series. They chose Campbell's The Mythic Image as the culmination of the series, giving it the closing position--number one hundred. A lavishly illustrated and beautifully produced study of the mythology of the world's high civilizations, The Mythic Image received a front-cover review in the New York Times Book Review upon publication. Through the medium of visual art, the book explores the relation of dreams to myth and demonstrates the important differences between oriental and occidental interpretations of dreams and life.

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