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Women have made a difference in every field imaginable, and they continue to do so today. Women in Literature features groundbreaking figures in literary fiction, genre fiction, science fiction, nonfiction and memoir, feminist writing, poetry, and young adult literature.

"Mythology is the basis of society's religion, and religion is an essential key to identity. Mythology creates and sanctions meaning through the elaboration of identity in cultural metaphors that are at once ecological, sociological and ideological.

Why were Prometheus and Loki envisioned as chained to rocks? What was the Golden Calf? Why are mirrors believed to carry bad luck? Our oldest written records date to 5,200 years ago, but we have been speaking and mythmaking for perhaps 100,000. This groundbreaking book points the way to restoring some of that lost history and teaching us about human storytelling.

Here, a veteran teacher shows that the myth of the hero best reveals itself through a jewel of many facets rather than a single clear lens. He explores the essential features of the myth, where these stories came from and what they are really about, and analyzes how regular people see these stories.

Joseph Campbell, a preeminent scholar, writer, and teacher, has had a profound influence on millions of people. To him, mythology was the "song of the universe, the music of the spheres."