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A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#385563-UF14
Titel	A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake
Auteur	Campbell, Joseph & Henry Morton Robinson
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company
Jaar van uitgave	1944
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original boards, gilt lettered spine, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Countless would-be readers of Finnegans Wake ? James Joyce? s 1939 masterwork, on which he labored for a third of his life ? have given up after a few pages and ? dismissed the book as a perverse triumph of the unintelligible.? In 1944, a young professor of mythology and literature named Joseph Campbell, working with novelist and poet Henry Morton Robinson, wrote the first guide to understanding the fascinating world of Finnegans Wake. Page by page, chapter by chapter, A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake outlines the basic action of Joyce? s book, simplifies and clarifies the complex web of images and allusions, and provides an understandable, continuous narrative from which the reader can venture out on his or her own. This edition includes a foreword and updates by Joyce scholar Dr. Edmund ... (Lees verder)L. Epstein that add the context of sixty subsequent years of scholarship.
Pagina's	365
Conditie	Goed — Dust jacket missing, edges slightly browned, top cut slightly foxed, small dent on spine.
Prijs	€ 20,00

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