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The Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

The Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork

Contributors:

By (Author) Joseph Campbell
By (author) Henry Morton Robinson

ISBN:

9781608681662

Publisher:

New World Library

Imprint:

New World Library

Publication Date:

8th February 2013

UK Publication Date:

30th April 2013

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Dewey:

823.912

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

400

Dimensions:

Width 140mm, Height 216mm

Description

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.

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, "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"

"The key that will open ["Finnegans Wake"'s] treasures."
-- Max Lerner, "The New York Times"

Author Bio

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."

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