Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

Name: Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
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A look into the variety of hero myths and the similarities that run through different cultures by making use of psychology and folklore. The amazing, best-selling exploration of world myth and the individual soul’s development that has changed millions of lives.

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The Hero with a Thousand Faces (first published in 1949) is a work of comparative mythology by Joseph Campbell, in which the author discusses his theory of the mythological structure of the journey of the archetypal hero found in world myths.

Since the publication of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell’s theory has been consciously applied by a wide variety of modern writers and artists. Filmmaker George Lucas acknowledged Campbell’s theory in mythology, and its influence on the Star Wars films.