Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: Joseph Campbell on the Art of James Joyce : the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell - Tapa blanda

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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Joseph Campbell was 23, in Paris, in 1927. A scholar with a post-graduate fellowship, he encountered James Joyce’sUlysses, known for being praised and for kicking up controversy (including an obscenity trial in the US in 1920.) As others had been, Campbell was a tad confused. Since he was in Paris he could visit the Shakespeare & Company bookstore outpost of the original publisher of Ulysses, Sylvia Beach. She gave him clues” for readingUlysses and that, Campbell attested, changed his career. In his wide-ranging, allusive style, Joyce provided ample room for Campbell’s equally diverse interests in depth psychology, comparative religion, anthropology, and even art history. This work allows readers to experience Joyce from Campbell’s extraordinary perspective. Readers share Campbell’s visceral appreciation for all that was new in Joyce in a way that will delight the previously uninitiated, and perhaps intimidated, as well as longtime lovers of both Joyce and Campbell.