EP 21: Imagery of Vision in the novels of James Joyce
Pathways with Joseph Campbell
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The Mythology of the Hero Voyage
Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, which appeared in 1939, and Thomas Mann's Joseph novels, 34 to 44, we are in the myth world entirely. We have abandoned the upper world and they're both plunged into here. It was Joyce's intention to write still another work which would have completed his journey, he might say, but he died before that came out. Here we have then not only the flight from Crete to the mainland, from Irish Catholicism to the great archetypes of myth, but also from the naturalistic novel to the archetypes of mythology as well. I'd love to try to see how the details of a life can themselves be opened out so that we
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