A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake

Author: Joseph Campbell
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 1577314050
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
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.

A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake

Author: Joseph Campbell
Publisher: Collected Works of Joseph Campbell
ISBN: 9781608681662
Category : Dreams in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Pbk. printing of hardcover ed. published in 2005.

Joyce's Book of the Dark

Author: John Bishop
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299108236
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 496

Book Description
“Joyce’s Book of the Dark gives us such a blend of exciting intelligence and impressive erudition that it will surely become established as one of the most fascinating and readable Finnegans Wake studies now available.”—Margot Norris, James Joyce Literary Supplement

Annotations to Finnegans Wake

Author: Roland McHugh
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780710006660
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 628

Book Description

Annotations to Finnegans Wake

Author: Roland McHugh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 656

Book Description
The biggest stumbling block facing any prospective reader of "Finnegans Wake" is the book itself, with its thousands of words of Joyce's inventions, derived from nearly every foreign language imaginable and from a host of other sources. Now extensively revised, expanded, and corrected, Roland McHugh's "Annotations" is a unique one-volume guidebook designed to be read side by side with the "Wake" itself.

A Guide Through Finnegans Wake

Author: Edmund L. Epstein
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813035345
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This book guides readers through the complex, pun-based, and dreamlike narrative of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Defying conventions of plot and continuity, Finnegans Wake has been challenging readers since its first publication in 1939. The novel is so famously difficult that it is widely agreed that only the brave or foolhardy attempt to unravel this well-known but relatively little-read classic.

Mythic Worlds, Modern Words

Author: Joseph Campbell
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 9781577314066
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
The mythographer who has command of scholarly literature, the analytic ability and the lucid prose and the staying power.

The Books at the Wake

Author: James Stephen Atherton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

How Joyce Wrote Finnegans Wake

Author: Luca Crispi
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 552

Book Description
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The Conscience of James Joyce

Author: Darcy O'Brien
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400877067
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 275

Book Description
James Joyce, the great and bold literary innovator of our time, was also a rebel in life, a self-exile from family, nation, and religion. Criticism of Joyce, when it has not been purely technical, has sought in Joyce's work ideas as radical as his techniques and as rebellious as his life. Mr. O’Brien discovers that Joyce was neither morally revolutionary nor morally neutral. Instead, Joyce emerges as an Irishman clinging to a conception of human nature largely derived from the Irish Catholic background he so vehemently denounced. In this study of Joyce’s work, from his early poems through Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, Mr. O’Brien argues that Joyce eventually achieved, in his books, a comic perspective on the follies of mankind. Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.