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The King and the Corpse : Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil / Heinrich Robert Zimmer; ed. by Joseph Campbell.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Works by Heinrich Zimmer ; 123Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©1956Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691187525
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 398.2 22
LOC classification:
  • PN931 .Z55 1970eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- EDITOR'S FOREWORD -- LIST OF PLATES -- THE DILETTANTE AMONG SYMBOLS -- PART I -- ABU KASEM'S SLIPPERS -- A PAGAN HERO AND A CHRISTIAN SAINT -- FOUR ROMANCES FROM THE CYCLE OF KING ARTHUR -- THE KING AND THE CORPSE -- PART II -- FOUR EPISODES FROM THE ROMANCE OF THE GODDESS -- OJV THE SIPRÂ SHORE -- INDEX
Summary: Drawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together by their common concern for the problem of our eternal conflict with the forces of evil. Beginning with a tale from the Arabian Nights, this theme unfolds in legends from Irish paganism, medieval Christianity, the Arthurian cycle, and early Hinduism. In the retelling of these tales, Zimmer discloses the meanings within their seemingly unrelated symbols and suggests the philosophical wholeness of this assortment of myth.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780691187525

Frontmatter -- EDITOR'S FOREWORD -- LIST OF PLATES -- THE DILETTANTE AMONG SYMBOLS -- PART I -- ABU KASEM'S SLIPPERS -- A PAGAN HERO AND A CHRISTIAN SAINT -- FOUR ROMANCES FROM THE CYCLE OF KING ARTHUR -- THE KING AND THE CORPSE -- PART II -- FOUR EPISODES FROM THE ROMANCE OF THE GODDESS -- OJV THE SIPRÂ SHORE -- INDEX

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Drawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together by their common concern for the problem of our eternal conflict with the forces of evil. Beginning with a tale from the Arabian Nights, this theme unfolds in legends from Irish paganism, medieval Christianity, the Arthurian cycle, and early Hinduism. In the retelling of these tales, Zimmer discloses the meanings within their seemingly unrelated symbols and suggests the philosophical wholeness of this assortment of myth.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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