The Decentered Universe of Finnegans Wake: A Structuralist Analysis

by 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 of a "chaosmos," a Freudian dream world of sexual transgression and social dissolution, of inauthentic being and empty words. Conventional moralities and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421431300
• ISBN13: 9781421431307
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"