Document Type
Book Review
Organization
The Mythopoeic Society
Publication Date
10-18-2021
Abstract
The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension - Selected Essays, 1944-1968 is a 2018 addition to The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell series. This volume of essays begins with a history of the Grimm brothers and fairy tales, moves on to the author’s ideas on the role of society to the development of mythologies, and ends with the secularization of the sacred. This book would go nicely with his The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays 1959–1987, a 2017 reissue of the volume, also for The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell series. Both books develop similar themes about mythology using psychology and anthropology as a joint lens for his analysis.
Publication Title
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
Volume
40
Issue
1
First Page
256
Last Page
259
Recommended Citation
Fitzsimmons, Phillip, "The Flight of the Wild Gander by Joseph Campbell" (2021). Faculty Articles & Research. 47.
https://dc.swosu.edu/libraries_articles/47