The Flight Of The Wild Gander A Skeleton Key Study Guide

This Skeleton Key Study Guide to Joseph Campbell's The Flight of the Wild Gander lets you read Campbell alongside a Campbell expert, focusing on the origins of myth and the enduring power of metaphor and symbols. In this helpful guide, you'll find chapter summaries, notable quotes, reading suggestions, essay and discussion topics, and prompts for creative projects. The Joseph Campbell Foundation's Skeleton Key Study Guides offer entryways into the work of Joseph Campbell for teachers, students, and myth-minded readers. Written by a contemporary expert in myth, this guide will help you discover the joy of Campbell's insights so you can apply them to your life.

Portions of this book appeared in a somewhat modified form in The Reader's encyclopedia of American literature (T.Y. Crowell, 1962) and in Benet's reader's encyclopedia, 3d ed. (Harper and Row, 1987). Some 1,500 entries are new; those that are not new have been revised and updated. The scope is American literature from the period of European exploration to the 1990s, with emphasis on the US but including extensive coverage of Canada and Latin America. Entries include writers and writings, literary groups and movements, newspapers and other periodicals, and literary terms; also within the alphabetical arrangement are broad historical and topical essays. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Presents brief biographical sketches which provide vital statistics as well as information on the importance of the person listed.