Campbell, Joseph, 1904-1987,

Correspondence : 1927-1987 / Joseph Campbell ; edited by Evans Lansing Smith, PhD, and Dennis Patrick Slattery, PhD ; Joseph Campbell Foundation. - Novato, California : New World Library, [2018] - 430 pages, 22.4 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Letter writing: the imagination's personal genre / by Dennis Patrick Slattery, PhD -- Joseph Campbell's correspondence: a portrait of an epoch / by Evans Lansing Smith, PhD -- Joseph Campbell: seventy years of making myths; an interview with D.J.R. Bruckner -- Wanderings: Paris to Pacific Grove -- The 1940s: decade mirabilis -- The 1950s: the banquet years -- The masks of god -- Political matters: Thomas Mann to the Vietnam War -- The 1970s and the mythic image -- The last decade -- Coda: testimonials and condolences.

"A collection of letters to and from the American academic and writer Joseph Campbell; includes correspondence with notable thinkers such as Thomas Mann, Carl Gustav Jung, Margaret Mead, Mircea Eliade, Alan Watts, and Gary Snyder"--

9781608683253 (alk. paper)

2018028676


Campbell, Joseph, 1904-1987 --Correspondence.


Mythologists--United States--Correspondence.
Religion historians--United States--Correspondence.
Authors, American--20th century--Correspondence.
College teachers--United States--Correspondence.
Intellectuals--Correspondence.

BL303.6.C35 / A4 2018

200.92