A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake by Joseph Campbell

A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake by Joseph Campbell

Since its publication in 1939, countless would-be readers of Finnegans Wake -- James Joyce's masterwork that consumed a third of his life -- have given up after a few pages and dismissed it as a "perverse triumph of the unintelligible." In 1944, a young professor of mythology and literature named Joseph Campbell, working with Henry Morton Robinson, wrote the first "key" or guide to entering the fascinating, disturbing, marvelously rich world of Finnegans Wake. The authors break down Joyce's "unintelligible" book page by page, stripping the text of much of its obscurity and serving up thoughtful interpretations via footnotes and bracketed commentary. A Skeleton Key was Campbell's first book, published five years before he wrote his breakthrough, The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

Robinson, Henry Morton: - Henry Morton Robinson (1898-1961) was born in Boston and lived much of his life in Woodstock, New York. He taught English at Columbia University and wrote novels, most famously The Cardinal, which was made into a film nominated for six Academy Awards.

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ISBN 13	9781577314059
ISBN 10	1577314050
Title	A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake
Author	Joseph Campbell
Series	Collected Works Of Joseph Campbell Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	New World Library
Year published	2005-06-16
Number of pages	400
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