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Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake : Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork by Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson (2013, Trade Paperback)
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Title: A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork Author: Campbell, Joseph Publisher: New World Library Binding: Paperback Pages: 402 Dimensions: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.30d Product Weight: 0.9 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9781608681662 In this edition of Campbell & Robinson's seminal decoding of Joyce's masterpiece, the authors analyse the novel page by page, stripping the layers of obscurity & offering interpretations through footnotes & bracketed commentary. Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer
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PublisherNew World Library
ISBN-101608681661
ISBN-139781608681662
eBay Product ID (ePID)143809582
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Book TitleSkeleton Key to Finnegans Wake : Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork
Number of Pages432 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2013
TopicReference, Folklore & Mythology, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Subjects & Themes / General
GenreLiterary Criticism, Social Science
AuthorJoseph Campbell, Henry Morton Robinson
Book SeriesThe Collected Works of Joseph Campbell Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight19 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.6 in
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Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Campbell and Robinson deserve a citation from the Republic of Letters for having succeeded in bringing out their Skeleton Key at this time....The chance to be among the first to explore the wonders of Finnegans Wake is one of the few great intellectual and aesthetic treats that these last bad years have yielded." -- Edmund Wilson , New Yorker "Joyce has found in Mr. Campbell and Mr. Robinson the ideal readers who approach his book with piety, passion, and intelligence, and who have devoted several years to fashioning the key that will open its treasures." -- Max Lerner , New York Times, Campbell and Robinson deserve a citation from the Republic of Letters for having succeeded in bringing out their Skeleton Key at this time....The chance to be among the first to explore the wonders of Finnegans Wake is one of the few great intellectual and aesthetic treats that these last bad years have yielded." — Edmund Wilson , The New Yorker Joyce has found in Mr. Campbell and Mr. Robinson the ideal readers who approach his book with piety, passion, and intelligence, and who have devoted several years to fashioning the key that will open its treasures." — Max Lerner , The New York Times, "Campbell and Robinson deserve a citation from the Republic of Letters for having succeeded in bringing out their Skeleton Key at this time....The chance to be among the first to explore the wonders of Finnegans Wake is one of the few great intellectual and aesthetic treats that these last bad years have yielded." -- Edmund Wilson , The New Yorker "Joyce has found in Mr. Campbell and Mr. Robinson the ideal readers who approach his book with piety, passion, and intelligence, and who have devoted several years to fashioning the key that will open its treasures." -- Max Lerner , The New York Times, "Campbell and Robinson deserve a citation from the Republic of Letters for having succeeded in bringing out their Skeleton Key at this time....The chance to be among the first to explore the wonders of Finnegans Wake is one of the few great intellectual and aesthetic treats that these last bad years have yielded." - Edmund Wilson , The New Yorker "Joyce has found in Mr. Campbell and Mr. Robinson the ideal readers who approach his book with piety, passion, and intelligence, and who have devoted several years to fashioning the key that will open its treasures." - Max Lerner , The New York Times
Dewey Decimal823.912
SynopsisCountless 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., In this edition of Campbell & Robinson's seminal decoding of Joyce's masterpiece, the authors analyse the novel page by page, stripping the layers of obscurity & offering interpretations through footnotes & bracketed commentary., 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.
LC Classification NumberPR6019.O9F57 2013
