A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake (1944) by mythologist Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson is a work of literary criticism.
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A third edition was published in 2005 by New World Library as part of the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell series; this edition, edited by Joyce scholar Edmund Epstein, featured a new introduction, corrections, and editorial additions to keep this seminal critical work current and useful to Joyce scholars and readers.
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Campbell and Robinson originally began their unlocking of Joyce's masterwork for two reasons: because Finnegans Wake, while widely recognized as a masterpiece, was also widely dismissed as unintelligible--"the greatest book that nobody's ever read"; and 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.
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