Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: Joseph Campbell on the Art of James Joyce

by Joseph Campbell, Edmund L Epstein PH.D. (Foreword by), Edmund L Epstein PH.D. (Editor), Chris Cromwell (Read by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781543662481
Publisher:	Brilliance Audio
Publication date:	06/05/2018
Series:	Collected Works of Joseph Campbell
Sales rank:	388,697
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 5.50(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

	About the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell	xi
	Editor's Foreword	xiii
	Texts of James Joyce	xviii
	Acknowledgments	xix
	James Joyce (1882-1941): An Obituary Notice	xxi
	The Novels of James Joyce
Chapter I	Introduction	3
	Affect Images	3
	Wings of Art	8
	Consubtantial Metamorphoses	10
	Joyce and the Jungian Unconscious	12
	Joyce's Dantean Model	14
Chapter II	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	19
	Esthetic Arrest	19
	A Portrait	27
Chapter III	Ulysses	47
	Introduction
	The Waste Land	47
	Ulysses and the Odyssey	49
	The Odyssey of Initiation	51
	The Telemachus Chapters
	Telemachus	56
	Nestor	60
	Proteus	62
	The Odysseus Chapters
	Introduction	82
	Calypso	83
	Lotus-Eaters	88
	Hades	91
	Aeolus	93
	Lestrygonians	95
	Scylla and Charybdis	100
	The Wandering Rocks	105
	Sirens	107
	Cyclops	109
	Nausicaa	118
	Oxen of the Sun	121
	Circe	131
	The Telemachus, Odysseus, and Penelope Chapters
	Eumaeus	174
	Ithaca	179
	Penelope	186
Chapter IV	Finnegans Wake	193
	Introduction
	Approaching the Wake	193
	Archetypal Opposition	195
	The Dream	197
	The Hereweareagain Gaieties	198
	Finnegan's Fall	200
	The Wake
Book I202
Book II233
Book III235
Book IV237
	Emerging from the Wake	240
	Finnegan the Wake	243
	The Wilder Affair
Chapter V	The Skin of Whose Teeth?	257
Part I
	The Strange Case of Mr. Wilder's New Play and Finnegans Wake	257
Part II
	The Intention Behind the Deed	261
	Two Accounts: Editor's Afterword	265
	Dialogues
Chapter VI	Dialogues	271
	Chapter Notes	293
	A Joseph Campbell Bibliography	317
	Permissions Acknowledgments	321
	Index	323
	About the Author	341
	About the Joseph Campbell Foundation	343

Editorial Reviews

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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