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

Campbell, Joseph; Robinson, Henry Morton

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1608681661 ISBN 13 : 9781608681662

Editeur : New World Library, 2013

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

Joseph Campbell is widely credited with bringing mythology to a mass audience. His works, including "The Hero with a Thousand Faces," the four volume "The Masks of God," and "The Power of Myth" (with Bill Moyers), rank among the classics in mythology and literature. Henry Morton Robinson was best known for his novel, "The Cardinal."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New World Library
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1608681661
• ISBN 13: 9781608681662
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
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