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A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake is a 1944 work of literary criticism by mythologist Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson. The first major text to provide an in-depth analysis of Finnegans Wake (James Joyce's final novel), A Skeleton Key to Read More..

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Description	A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake is a 1944 work of literary criticism by mythologist Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson. The first major text to provide an in-depth analysis of Finnegans Wake (James Joyce's final novel), A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake is considered by many scholars to be a seminal work on the text. The Modern Word The term monomyth, which Campbell used to describe his journey of the hero in his book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, came from Finnegans Wake.Campbell and Robinson began their analysis of Joyce's work for two reasons: because Finnegans Wake, while widely recognized as a masterpiece, was also widely dismissed as unintelligible--"the greatest book that nobody's ever read"; and because they had recognized in The Skin of Our Teeth (1942), the popular play by Thornton Wilder, an appropriation from Joyce's novel not only of themes but of plot and language as well.They published a pair of reviews-cum-denunciations, both entitled "The Skin of Whose Teeth?" in The Saturday Review; these created a huge uproar at the time. For the texts of these articles, see Joseph Campbell's, Mythic Worlds, Modern Words (2004). For Campbell's story of the "Skin of Our Teeth Affair" and how it led to the publication of A Skeleton Key, see Joseph Campbell's book, Pathways to Bliss (2005).<A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake was first published by Harcourt Brace in 1944. A second edition was published by Viking Press in 1968. An unauthorized edition published by Buccaneer Books in 1993 was withdrawn when the Joseph Campbell Foundation complained of copyright infringement. A third edition was published in 2005 by New World Library as part of the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell series; this last edition was edited by, and had a foreword by, Joyce scholar Edmund Epstein.
Description	A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake is a 1944 work of literary criticism by mythologist Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson. The first major text to provide an in-depth analysis of Finnegans Wake (James Joyce's final novel), A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake is considered by many scholars to be a seminal work on the text. The Modern Word The term monomyth, which Campbell used to describe his journey of the hero in his book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, came from Finnegans Wake.Campbell and Robinson began their analysis of Joyce's work for two reasons: because Finnegans Wake, while widely recognized as a masterpiece, was also widely dismissed as unintelligible--"the greatest book that nobody's ever read"; and because they had recognized in The Skin of Our Teeth (1942), the popular play by Thornton Wilder, an appropriation from Joyce's novel not only of themes but of plot and language as well.They published a pair of reviews-cum-denunciations, both entitled "The Skin of Whose Teeth?" in The Saturday Review; these created a huge uproar at the time. For the texts of these articles, see Joseph Campbell's, Mythic Worlds, Modern Words (2004). For Campbell's story of the "Skin of Our Teeth Affair" and how it led to the publication of A Skeleton Key, see Joseph Campbell's book, Pathways to Bliss (2005).<A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake was first published by Harcourt Brace in 1944. A second edition was published by Viking Press in 1968. An unauthorized edition published by Buccaneer Books in 1993 was withdrawn when the Joseph Campbell Foundation complained of copyright infringement. A third edition was published in 2005 by New World Library as part of the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell series; this last edition was edited by, and had a foreword by, Joyce scholar Edmund Epstein.

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Authors	Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson
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Pages	400pp.
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Publisher	1st edition: Harcourt Brace 2nd: Viking Press 3rd: New World Library
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Pub_date	First published in 1944; 2nd ed., 1968; 3rd ed., 2005
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