The Flight of the Wild Gander
The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension |
First edition |
| Author |
Joseph Campbell |
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| Country |
United States |
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| Language |
English |
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| Series |
Collected Works of Joseph Campbell |
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| Genre |
Anthropology/Comparative Mythology |
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| Publisher |
New World Library |
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Publication date |
First published in 1969. Second edition, 1990. Third edition 2002. |
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| Media type |
Print |
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| Pages |
192 |
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| ISBN |
1-57731-210-4 |
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| OCLC |
49249456 |
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291.1/3 21 |
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| LC Class |
BL304 .C35 2002 |
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In The Flight of the Wild Gander, mythologist Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) collected a number of his most thought-provoking early essays and forwards into a single volume. Essays include "Bios and Mythos" (on the psycho-biological sources of mythic forms and symbols), "Mythogenesis" (on the rise and fall of a single Native American legend) and "The Symbol without Meaning" (about the secularization of myths in the modern age).
The wild gander of the title is a reference to the Hindu concept of the paramahamsa, a great spiritual teacher of exalted illumination, able to transcend the mundane, just as the hamsa is able to fly above the sky-scraping Himalayas.
Published originally in 1969 by Viking Press, the book was rereleased by Harper and Row in 1990. The third edition was published by New World Library in 2002, making The Flight of the Wild Gander the third title in the Joseph Campbell Foundation's Collected Works of Joseph Campbell series.
References
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| | Books | The Masks of God
(1959–1968) |
- Volume 1, Primitive Mythology (1959)
- Volume 2, Oriental Mythology (1962)
- Volume 3, Occidental Mythology (1964)
- Volume 4, Creative Mythology (1968))
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- Volume I: The Way of the Animal Powers (1983) (reprint in two parts: Part 1: Mythologies of the Primitive Hunters and Gatherers (1988);
Part 2: Mythologies of the Great Hunt (1988))
- Volume II: The Way of the Seeded Earth (Part 1: The Sacrifice (1988); Part 2: Mythologies of the Primitive Planters: The North Americas (1989);
Part 3: Mythologies of the Primitive Planters: The Middle and Southern Americas (1989))
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- Transformations of Myth Through Time (1990)
- A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living (1991). editor Diane K. Osbon
- Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: On the Art of James Joyce (1993). editor Edmund L. Epstein
- The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays (1959–1987) (1993). editor Anthony Van Couvering
- Baksheesh & Brahman: Indian Journals (1954–1955) (1995). editors Robin/Stephen Larsen & Anthony Van Couvering
- Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor (2001). editor Eugene Kennedy
- Sake & Satori: Asian Journals - Japan (2002). editor David Kudler
- Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal (2003). editor David Kudler
- Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation (2004). editor David Kudler
- The Mythic Imagination: Collected Short Fiction (2012), editors David Kudler and Robert Walter
- Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine (2013), editor Safron Rossi
- Romance of the Grail: The Magic and Mystery of Arthurian Myth (2015), editor Evans Lansing Smith
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| Books based
upon interviews | |
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| | Audio recordings |
- The Power of Myth (With Bill Moyers) (1987)
- Transformation of Myth through Time Volume 1-3 (1989)
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces: The Cosmogonic Cycle (Read by Ralph Blum) (1990)
- The Way of Art (1990—unlicensed)
- The Lost Teachings of Joseph Campbell Volume 1-9 (With Michael Toms) (1993)
- On the Wings of Art: Joseph Campbell; Joseph Campbell on the Art of James Joyce (1995)
- The Wisdom of Joseph Campbell (With Michael Toms) (1997)
The Collected Lectures
of Joseph Campbell |
- Volume I.1: Mythology and the Individual (1997)
- Volume I.2: The Inward Journey (1997)
- Volume I.3: The Eastern Way (1997)
- Volume I.4: Man and Myth (1997)
- Volume I.5: The Myths and Masks of God (1997)
- Volume I.6: The Western Quest (1997)
- Volume II.1: A Brief History of World Mythology (2009–2011)
- Volume II.2: Perspectives on Creative Mythology (2012–2013)
- Volume II.3: Christian Symbols & Ideas (2014)
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- Myth and Metaphor in Society (With Jamake Highwater) (abridged)(2002)
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| | Books edited |
- Gupta, Mahendranath. The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942) (translation from Bengali by Swami Nikhilananda; Joseph Campbell and Margaret Woodrow Wilson, translation assistants -
see preface; foreword by Aldous Huxley)
- Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization. Heinrich Zimmer (1946)
- The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil. Heinrich Zimmer (1948)
- Philosophies of India. Heinrich Zimmer (1951)
- The Portable Arabian Nights (1951)
- The Art of Indian Asia. Heinrich Zimmer (1955)
- Man and Time: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks. Various authors (1954–1969)
- Man and Transformation: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks. Various authors (1954–1969)
- The Mysteries: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks. Various authors (1954–1969)
- The Mystic Vision: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks. Various authors (1954–1969)
- Spirit and Nature: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks. Various authors (1954–1969)
- Spiritual Disciplines: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks. Various authors (1954–1969)
- Myths, Dreams, Religion. Various authors (1970)
- The Portable Jung. Carl Jung (1971)
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