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| − | Joyce used an abundant amount of mythological references throughout ''Finnegans Wake''. | + | Joyce used an abundant amount of mythological references throughout ''Finnegans Wake''. Characters and stories from Ancient Greek, Roman, Irish, and Egyptian mythology are some of the more prevelant. Joseph Campbell, who was greatly influenced by Joyce, once said that “Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths." When the reader takes ''Finnegans Wake'' as being a "Book of the Night", a narration of a dream, we can see where Joyce has taken thousands of dream and myth archetypes and brought them all together in this one story of Finnegan, the "everyman", what Campbell later described as "monomyth". |
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Joyce used an abundant amount of mythological references throughout Finnegans Wake. Characters and stories from Ancient Greek, Roman, Irish, and Egyptian mythology are some of the more prevelant. Joseph Campbell, who was greatly influenced by Joyce, once said that “Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths." When the reader takes Finnegans Wake as being a "Book of the Night", a narration of a dream, we can see where Joyce has taken thousands of dream and myth archetypes and brought them all together in this one story of Finnegan, the "everyman", what Campbell later described as "monomyth".
Pages in category "Mythological figures"
The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
