Mythic Worlds, Modern Words, Joseph Campbell
Mythic Worlds, Modern Words, Joseph Campbell
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Mythic Worlds, Modern Words
Joseph Campbell on the Art of James Joyce

Author: Joseph Campbell, Edmund L. Epstein, Edmund L. Epstein

Narrator: Braden Wright

Unabridged: 11 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 06/05/2018


Synopsis

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.

About Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell was interested in mythology since his childhood in New York, when he read books about American Indians, frequently visited the American Museum of Natural History, and was fascinated by the museum's collection of totem poles. He earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Columbia in 1925 and 1927 and went on to study medieval French and Sanskrit at the universities of Paris and Munich. After a period in California, where he encountered John Steinbeck and the biologist Ed Ricketts, he taught at the Canterbury School, then, in 1934, joined the literature department at Sarah Lawrence College, a post he retained for many years. During the 1940s and '50s, he helped Swami Nikhilananda to translate the Upanishads and The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. The many books by Professor Campbell include The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Myths to Live By, The Flight of the Wild Gander, and The Mythic Image. He edited The Portable Arabian Nights, The Portable Jung, and other works. He died in 1987.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Yvonne

Insightful analysis of the myths employed by Joyce. I've read and loved Portrait and Ulysses. Maybe I'm finally old enough for the Wake .........more

Goodreads review by David

Started first time: March 11, 2004; Finished: March 26, 2004. Very cool. A lot of this material I am familiar with and it is wonderful to have it all put together in one book. . . Well done and very helpful in understanding what James Joyce's art was all about. I'll be reading this one again, and again......more

This book speaks to us about a forerunner of the modern English novel, who was not only the innovator of the Stream of Consciousness technique but used it to perfection in Ulysses and to some extent in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Joyce…. He enhances the efficacy of the novel by using my......more

I had no idea until fairly recently about Joseph Campbell's love of Joyce so this book is/was a revelation to me. Now Campbell has a treasure trove of great works so if Joyce isn't your thing you could consider passing this up, but I wouldn't because you'd be missing out on selected beautiful passag......more