A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake (1944) by mythologist Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson is an important work of literary criticism. One of the first major texts to provide an indepth 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 ^*. The term monomyth, which Campbell used to describe his journey of the hero in his book, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, came from Finnegans Wake.

Chapters

• SYNOPSIS AND DEMONSTRATION
  • Synopsis
  • Demonstration
• BOOK I:THE BOOK OF THE PARENTS
  • Chapter 1: Finnegan's Fall
  • Chapter 2: HCE-His Agnomen and Reputation
  • Chapter 3: HCE-His Trial and Incarceration
  • Chapter 4: HCE-His Demise and Resurrection
  • Chapter 5: The Manifesto of ALP
  • Chapter 6: Riddles-The Personages of the Manifesto
  • Chapter 7: Shem the Penman
  • Chapter 8: The Washers at the Ford
• BOOK II: THE BOOK OF THE SONS
  • Chapter 1: The Children's Hour
  • Chapter 2: The Study Period-Triv and Quad
  • Chapter 3: Taverny in Feast
  • Chapter 4: Bride-Ship and Gulls
• BOOK III: THE BOOK OF THE PEOPLE
  • Chapter 1: Shaun before the People
  • Chapter 2: Jaun before St. Bride's
  • Chapter 3: Yawn under Inquest
  • Chapter 4: HCE and ALP-Their Bed of Trial
• BOOK IV: RECORSO
• CONCLUSION

External links

• Summary from the Joseph Campbell Foundation
• Finnegans Wake Breakdown

1944 books | Books by Joseph Campbell | Joseph Campbell | James Joyce