Thirteen classroom lectures by the late Campbell, which will air on PBS early next year and are already available on video cassette. As ever, Campbell is spellbinding in these lightly edited transcripts, offering for the nonacademic reader a simplification of his five-volume historical atlas and four-volume The Masks of God The subjects and themes are prime Campbell: the nature of initiation; myths of the Native Americans; neolithic gods and goddesses; Egyptian myths; Buddhism, kundalini yoga, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and mystery religions; European consciousness and the Grail myth; the legends of Arthur and of Parzival, which Campbell ranks higher than Dante's Divine Comedy, because it "ends up on earth, and the thing is solved here, now, in the flesh, and in a magnificent way." Profuse illustrations throughout enliven and explicate the text.
Pub Date: Feb. 1, 1989
ISBN: 0060964634
Page Count: 282
Publisher: Harper & Row
Review Posted Online: May 15, 2012
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 1989
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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