Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: On the Art of James Joyce (Collected Works of Joseph Campbell): Joseph Campbell on the Art of James Joyce (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell) - Hardcover

J. Campbell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1577314069 ISBN 13: 9781577314066

Publisher: New World Library, 2012

Synopsis

Joseph Campbell's groundbreaking 1927 meditations on James Joyce's Ulysses are published for the first time, revealing fascinating secrets that will delight both Campbell and Joyce fans, including writings, lectures, and other commentaries on Joyce.

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Praise for "Mythic Worlds, Modern Words"
"Along with his famous studies of heroes, Jung, global myths, and world religions, Joseph Campbell was also an early and important James Joyce scholar, best known for "A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake," coauthored with Henry M. Robinson. "[Mythic Worlds, Modern Words]" gathers Campbell's lectures and shorter essays on Joyce's work, opening with an obituary notice about the writer and ending with a controversial account of Thornton Wilder's play "The Skin of Our Teeth" (which Campbell believed was little more than a "Wake" rip-off). In between Campbell proffers his interpretations of the major works, emphasizing their use of archetypal figures and situations."
" Washington Post Book World"

Praise for Joseph Campbell:
"Campbell has become one of the rarest of intellectuals in American life: a serious thinker who has been embraced by the popular culture."
" Newsweek"
"In our generation the mythographer who has had the fullest command of the huge scholarly literature, the analytic ability, the lucid prose, and the needed staying power has been Joseph Campbell."
" Commentary"
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Praise for Mythic Worlds, Modern Words
"Along with his famous studies of heroes, Jung, global myths, and world religions, Joseph Campbell was also an early and important James Joyce scholar, best known for A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, coauthored with Henry M. Robinson. [Mythic Worlds, Modern Words] gathers Campbell's lectures and shorter essays on Joyce's work, opening with an obituary notice about the writer and ending with a controversial account of Thornton Wilder's play The Skin of Our Teeth (which Campbell believed was little more than a Wake rip-off). In between Campbell proffers his interpretations of the major works, emphasizing their use of archetypal figures and situations."
Washington Post Book World

Praise for Joseph Campbell:
"Campbell has become one of the rarest of intellectuals in American life: a serious thinker who has been embraced by the popular culture."
Newsweek
"In our generation the mythographer who has had the fullest command of the huge scholarly literature, the analytic ability, the lucid prose, and the needed staying power has been Joseph Campbell."
Commentary
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About the Author:

Joseph Campbell (1904 1987) wrote books, including The Power of Myth and Hero with a Thousand Faces that have sold well over five million copies. Edmund L. Epstein (1931 2012) founded and edited the first James Joyce journal, The James Joyce Review.

About this edition

• Publisher: New World Library
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1577314069
• ISBN 13: 9781577314066
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Edmund L. Epstein