A Skeleton Key To Finnegans Wake

Download or read book A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake written by Joseph Campbell and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2005 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Joyce's Book of the Dark written by John Bishop and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 1986-12-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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

Download or read book A Guide Through Finnegans Wake written by Edmund L. Epstein and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Annotations to Finnegans Wake written by Roland McHugh and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Mythic Worlds, Modern Words written by Joseph Campbell and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2003 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mythographer who has command of scholarly literature, the analytic ability and the lucid prose and the staying power.

Download or read book Annotations to Finnegans Wake written by Roland McHugh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1980 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Books at the Wake written by James Stephen Atherton and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: