The King and the Corpse : : Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil / / Heinrich Robert Zimmer; ed. by Joseph Campbell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Zimmer, Heinrich Robert,
• HerausgeberIn: Campbell, Joseph,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©1956
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Works by Heinrich Zimmer ; 123
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; EDITOR'S FOREWORD --; LIST OF PLATES --; THE DILETTANTE AMONG SYMBOLS --; PART I --; ABU KASEM'S SLIPPERS --; A PAGAN HERO AND A CHRISTIAN SAINT --; FOUR ROMANCES FROM THE CYCLE OF KING ARTHUR --; THE KING AND THE CORPSE --; PART II --; FOUR EPISODES FROM THE ROMANCE OF THE GODDESS --; OJV THE SIPRÂ SHORE --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691187525; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691187525?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Heinrich Robert Zimmer; ed. by Joseph Campbell.

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.