A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake [SEP] publisher
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 An unauthorized edition published by Buccaneer Books in 1993 was withdrawn when the Joseph Campbell Foundation complained of copyright infringement.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.
External links.
- Summary from the Joseph Campbell Foundation
A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake
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 term "monomyth", which Campbell used to describe his journey of the hero in his book, "The Hero with a