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In 1927, as a twenty-three-year-old postgraduate scholar in Paris, Joseph Campbell first encountered James Joyce s Ulysses . Known for being praised and for kicking up controversy (including an obscenity trial in the United States in 1920), the novel left Campbell both intrigued... Read Full Overview

Mythic Worlds, Modern Words provides a representation of Campbell s published writing, lectures on Joyce, and exchanges with his audiences, from his obituary notice on Joyce in 1941 to lectures delivered a few years before Campbell s death. Joyce scholar Edmund L. Epstein has... Read Full Overview