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Mythic Worlds, Modern Words provides a representation of Campbell's published writing, lectures on Joyce, and exchanges with his audiences, from his obituary notice on Joyce in 1941 to lectures delivered a few years before Campbell's death. 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. With a new foreword by Phil Cousineau for this Collected Works edition, Mythic Worlds, Modern Words is both an introduction to the major work of Joyce and a representative portrait of Joseph Campbell as a critic of Joyce. It is also a major contribution to Joyce criticism, the fruit of a lifetime's meditation on the great Irish writer's writings.
Author Notes
Joseph Campbell was born in White Plains, New York on March 26, 1904. He received a B.A. in English literature in 1925 and an M.A. in Medieval literature in 1927 from Columbia University. He was awarded a Proudfit Traveling Fellowship to continue his studies at the University of Paris. After he had received and rejected an offer to teach at his high school alma mater, his Fellowship was renewed, and he traveled to Germany to resume his studies at the University of Munich. During the year he was housemaster of Canterbury School, he sold his first short story, Strictly Platonic, to Liberty magazine. In 1934, he accepted a position in the literature department at Sarah Lawrence College, a post he would retain until retiring in 1972.
During his lifetime, he wrote more than 40 books including The Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Mythic Image, the four-volume The Masks of God, and The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers. During the 1940s and 1950s, he collaborated with Swami Nikhilananda on translations of the Upanishads and The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. He received several awards including National Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Contributions to Creative Literature and the 1985 National Arts Club Gold Medal of Honor in Literature. He died after a brief struggle with cancer on October 30, 1987.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Table of Contents
About the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell | p. xi |
Editor's Foreword | p. xiii |
Texts of James Joyce | p. xviii |
Acknowledgments | p. xix |
James Joyce (1882-1941): An Obituary Notice | p. xxi |
The Novels of James Joyce | |
Chapter I Introduction | p. 3 |
Affect Images | p. 3 |
Wings of Art | p. 8 |
Consubtantial Metamorphoses | p. 10 |
Joyce and the Jungian Unconscious | p. 12 |
Joyce's Dantean Model | p. 14 |
Chapter II A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | p. 19 |
Esthetic Arrest | p. 19 |
A Portrait | p. 27 |
Chapter III Ulysses | p. 47 |
Introduction | |
The Waste Land | p. 47 |
Ulysses and the Odyssey | p. 49 |
The Odyssey of Initiation | p. 51 |
The Telemachus Chapters | |
Telemachus | p. 56 |
Nestor | p. 60 |
Proteus | p. 62 |
The Odysseus Chapters | |
Introduction | p. 82 |
Calypso | p. 83 |
Lotus-Eaters | p. 88 |
Hades | p. 91 |
Aeolus | p. 93 |
Lestrygonians | p. 95 |
Scylla and Charybdis | p. 100 |
The Wandering Rocks | p. 105 |
Sirens | p. 107 |
Cyclops | p. 109 |
Nausicaa | p. 118 |
Oxen of the Sun | p. 121 |
Circe | p. 131 |
The Telemachus, Odysseus, and Penelope Chapters | |
Eumaeus | p. 174 |
Ithaca | p. 179 |
Penelope | p. 186 |
Chapter IV Finnegans Wake | p. 193 |
Introduction | |
Approaching the Wake | p. 193 |
Archetypal Opposition | p. 195 |
The Dream | p. 197 |
The Hereweareagain Gaieties | p. 198 |
Finnegan's Fall | p. 200 |
The Wake | |
Book I p. 202 | |
Book II p. 233 | |
Book III p. 235 | |
Book IV p. 237 | |
Emerging from the Wake | p. 240 |
Finnegan the Wake | p. 243 |
The Wilder Affair | |
Chapter V The Skin of Whose Teeth? | p. 257 |
Part I The Strange Case of Mr. Wilder's New Play and Finnegans Wake | p. 257 |
Part II The Intention Behind the Deed | p. 261 |
Two Accounts: Editor's Afterword | p. 265 |
Dialogues | |
Chapter VI Dialogues | p. 271 |
Chapter Notes | p. 293 |
A Joseph Campbell Bibliography | p. 317 |
Permissions Acknowledgments | p. 321 |
Index | p. 323 |
About the Author | p. 341 |
About the Joseph Campbell Foundation | p. 343 |