The King and the Corpse (eBook)

Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil

Heinrich Zimmer (Autor)

Joseph Campbell (Herausgeber)

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2018
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18752-5 (ISBN)

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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.

Autor

The noted Indologist Heinrich Zimmer, born in Germany in 1890, came to the United States in 1940, at the height of his career, and was lecturing at Columbia University when he died in 1943. His other works in the Bollingen series include Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization and Philosophies of India.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.6.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Bollingen Series
• Reihe/Serie: Bollingen Series
• Reihe/Serie: Bollingen Series (General)
• Reihe/Serie: Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Reihe/Serie: Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Reihe/Serie: Works by Heinrich Zimmer
• Reihe/Serie: Works by Heinrich Zimmer
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Abomination (Bible) • Admetus • Apotheosis • augury • Babylonian Religion • Barabbas • Brahma • burial • calchas • Censure • chivalry • Christianity • Civil Death • Contrition • cremation • Daksha • death and life • decapitation • deity • Descent into Hell (novel) • Despair (novel) • Dolorous Stroke • Epic of Gilgamesh • Erechtheus • Exorcism • Fisher King • Foe (novel) • Frog mug • Galahad • George Lyman Kittredge • Glaphyra • Guinevere • hatred • Hunting knife • Incarnation • In Death • investiture • John Chrysostom • Kathasaritsagara • King Ban • King of the Gods • Knight • Kshemendra • Lancelot • Le Morte d'Arthur • lingam • Lunete • Manliness (book) • Matter of Britain • Meriones (mythology) • mirror world • miser • Misery (novel) • Morgan Le Fay • Mourning • Murder • My Father • Nebuchadnezzar II • necromancy • Oracle • Ordination • Ormenus • owain • Paleolithic • Pellam • Pergamus • pillory • Podalirius • Podarces • Puranas • Pyre • Rati • Round Table • Sayd • seneschal • She Died • Sir Balan • Sir Balin • Sir Galahad (poem) • smelting • social death • Superiority (short story) • Teucer • Teutons • The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night • The Britons • The Corpse • The Hanged Man (Tarot card) • The Miser • The Other Hand • Thomas Malory • Thorn in the flesh • Treachery (law) • Vapours (disease) • vedas • Veneration of the dead • Vishnu • Vortigern • Vyasa • Wolfram von Eschenbach
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18752-5 / 0691187525
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18752-5 / 9780691187525