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Joseph Campbell

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American mythologist, writer and lecturer

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Literature
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Mythology
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Joseph Campbell
Religious Studies
#108
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Comparative Religion
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Why Is Joseph Campbell Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, Joseph John Campbell was an American writer. He was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human experience. Campbell's best-known work is his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces , in which he discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypal hero shared by world mythologies, termed the monomyth.

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Joseph Campbell's Published Works

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