A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake

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A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake (1944) by mythologist Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson is a work of literary criticism. One of the first major texts to provide an in-depth 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 [1]. 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.

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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