Title: The modern day "Golden Bough"
Review: This book reminds me of Frazer's "Golden Bough" or Graves' "The White Goddess". Both of those books (and Campbell's) have in common that they have a grand unified theory of mythology and marshall lots of examples to support them. They also have in common that they are so interesting that it would be cool if they were true! Another thing they seem to have in common is that they distort the original myths to fit their theory and thus aren't accepted by experts in the field. The world of myth isn't really much simpler that the real world, so no simple theory will ever be able to account for anything but a small fraction of it.These books are useful if you want to tell a story according to their formulas, but don't mistake them for good scholarship.
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