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Mythic Worlds, Modern Words

Name: Mythic Worlds, Modern Words
Author: Joseph Campbell
ISBN: 9781577314066

by Joseph Campbell, Edmund L. Epstein (Editor), Phil Cousineau

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Overview

"Mythic Worlds, Modern Words provides a wide representation of Campbell's works on Joyce, including published writing, lectures, and exchanges with his audiences, from his obituary notice on Joyce in 1941 all the way to lectures delivered a few years before Campbell's death in 1987. Joyce scholar Edmund L. Epstein has arranged this material as running commentary on A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake." Mythic Worlds, Modern Words is an introduction to Joyce's major works, a portrait of Joseph Campbell as a scholar of Joyce, and a major contribution to Joyce criticism - the fruit of a lifetime's meditation on the great Irish writer's fiction.

Synopsis

In 1927 Joseph Campbell was given clues to reading James Joyce’s labyrinthine Ulysses by its original publisher Sylvia Beach and, as he said, it changed his career. His discoveries became the foundation for his later work in comparative mythology. To analyze Ulysses and Joyce’s other works, he employed depth psychology, anthropology, religion, and art history as tools. A treasure for Joyce and Campbell fans alike, Mythic Worlds, Modern Words collects 60 years of Campbell’s writings, lectures, and other commentary on Joyce, including exchanges with his audiences and Campbell's 1941 Joyce obituary.