Tuesday, March 09, 2004
Mythic Worlds, Modern Words
Mythic Worlds, Modern Words : On the Art of James Joyce
MYTHIC WORLDS, MODERN WORDS: On the Art of James Joyce by Joseph Campbell, edited by Edmund L. Epstein, HC from New World Library, ISBN 1577314069. In 1927, Joseph Campbell went to Paris to study medieval philology and encountered James Joyce's recently published Ulysses - "and that was almost the end of my interest in medieval philology," he later recalled. Campbell became one of the great Joyce scholars, applying the methods of psychology, anthropology and comparative religion to Joyce's experimental language, which stimulated his wide-ranging study of world mythology in turn. Epstein has arranged Campbell's writings and talks on Joyce as running commentary on Joyce's three great novels.
