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.[1]
 Cover of the first edition | |
| Authors | Joseph Campbell Henry Morton Robinson |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | 1st edition: Harcourt Brace 2nd: Viking Press 3rd: New World Library |
Publication date | First published in 1944; 2nd ed., 1968; 3rd ed., 2005 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 400pp. |
| OCLC | 57452879 |
| 823/.912 22 | |
| LC Class | PR6019.O9 F57 2005 |
Campbell and Robinson began their analysis of Joyce's work 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.[2]
References
- The Modern Word Archived May 23, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- 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).Joseph Campbell (2004). Mythic Worlds, Modern Words. New World Library. pp. 257–266. 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).<Joseph Campbell (2005). Pathways to Bliss. New World Library. pp. 121–123.
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