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A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork

A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork

Robinson, Henry Morton
Epstein, Edmund L.
Campbell, Joseph

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Series: Collected Works of Joseph Campbell

Literary CriticismMythology & Folklore

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ISBN10: 1608681661
ISBN13: 9781608681662
Publisher: New World Library
Published: Mar 5 2013
Pages: 402
Weight: 0.85
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
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 Hero with a Thousand Faces.

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