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

Campbell, Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060168277 ISBN 13: 9780060168278

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1993

Synopsis

Collects Campbell's published writings and lectures on the works of James Joyce and their relation to his own work in comparative mythology and religion

About this title

About the Author:

Edmund L. Epstein is Professor of English at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Review:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0060168277
• ISBN 13: 9780060168278
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Epstein Edmund L.