The Decentered Universe of Finnegans Wake : A Structuralist Analysis / / Margot Norris.
Originally published in 1977. The pioneer critics of Finnegans Wake hailed the work as a radical critique of language and civilization. Resuming their position, Margot Norris explains the book's most intractable uncertainties not as puzzles to be solved by a clever reader but as manifestations...
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