Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: Joseph Campbell on the Art of James Joyce (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
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The Myth of Finnegan's Wake
Joyce is compounding all these myths in a valid syncretism, points out that they are all metamorphoses of a basic material. Frasier's rational, associational approach was pre-Froydian and he was frustrated when he tried to find the ultimate interpretations of these symbolic forms. He interpreted them in a late 19th century way as being mistakes. Their names keep resounding in one change after another. Humphrey Chimpton Earwicker, H.C.E., the hero in his mythological aspect, whose initials stand for, here comes everybody,. His spouse, Anna Livia Plurabel, A.L.P., whose initials spell, Al
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