A Skeleton Key To Finnegans Wake: Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork - Couverture rigide

Campbell, Joseph; Robinson, Henry Morton

 
9781577314059: A Skeleton Key To Finnegans Wake: Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork
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ISBN 10 : 1577314050 ISBN 13 : 9781577314059
Editeur : New World Library, 2005

Synopsis

Since its publication in 1939, countless would-be readers of Finnegans Wake - James Joyce's masterwork, which consumed a third of his life - have given up after a few pages, dismissing 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. They outline the book's basic action, and then simplify - and clarify - its complex web of images and allusions. A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake is the latest addition to the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell series.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Countless would-be readers of Finnegans Wake James Joyce s 1939 masterwork, on which he labored for a third of his life have given up after a few pages and dismissed the book as a perverse triumph of the unintelligible. In 1944, a young professor of mythology and literature named Joseph Campbell, working with novelist and poet Henry Morton Robinson, wrote the first guide to understanding the fascinating world of Finnegans Wake. Page by page, chapter by chapter, A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake outlines the basic action of Joyce s book, simplifies and clarifies the complex web of images and allusions, and provides an understandable, continuous narrative from which the reader can venture out on his or her own. This edition includes a foreword and updates by Joyce scholar Dr. Edmund L. Epstein that add the context of sixty subsequent years of scholarship.

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Éditeur
New World Library
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1577314050
ISBN 13 
9781577314059
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
400
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1608681661 ISBN 13 :  9781608681662
Editeur : New World Library, 2013
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