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Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: On the Art of James Joyce

Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: On the Art of James Joyce

Campbell, Joseph
Epstein, Edmund L.
Epstein, Edmund L.

Paperback

Series: Collected Works of Joseph Campbell

Literary CriticismMythology & Folklore

Publisher Price: $23.95

ISBN10: 1955831785
ISBN13: 9781955831789
Publisher: New World Library
Published: Jul 21 2026
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.82 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In 1927, as a twenty-three-year-old postgraduate scholar in Paris, Joseph Campbell first encountered James Joyce's Ulysses. Known for being praised and for kicking up controversy (including an obscenity trial in the United States in 1920), the novel left Campbell both intrigued and confused, as it had many others. Because he was in Paris, he was able to visit the Shakespeare & Company bookstore--the outpost of the original publisher of Ulysses, Sylvia Beach. She gave him clues for reading Ulysses, and that, Campbell attested, changed his career. For the next sixty years, Campbell moved through the labyrinths of Joyce's creations--writing and lecturing on Joyce using depth psychology, comparative religion, anthropology, and art history as tools of analysis. Arranged by Joyce scholar Edmund L. Epstein, Mythic Worlds, Modern Words presents a wide range of Campbell's writing and lectures on Joyce, which together form an illuminating running commentary on Joyce's masterworks. Campbell's visceral appreciation for all that was new in Joyce will delight the previously uninitiated, and perhaps intimidated, as well as longtime lovers of both Joyce and Campbell.

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