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Book SynopsisGuiding readers through the disorienting dreamworld of James Joyce's last work, Kimberly Devlin examines Finnegans Wake as an uncanny text, one that is both strange and familiar. In light of Freud's description of the uncanny as a haunting awareness of earlier, repressed phases of the self, Devlin finds the uncanniness of the Wake rooted in Joyce's
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. ix*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xv*ABBREVIATIONS, pg. xvii*CHAPTER 1. Introduction: Textual Wandering and Return, pg. 3*CHAPTER 2. Textual Desire: Language and the Return of the Taboo, pg. 29*CHAPTER 3. "My Multiple Mes": The Search for the Self, pg. 63*CHATTER 4. "That Other World": The Journey toward Death, pg. 93*CHAPTER 5. "See Ourselves as Others See Us": The Role of the Other in Indeterminate Selfhood, pg. 111*CHAPTER 6. The Return of the Repressed: Male Visions and Re-visionings of the Female I/Eye, pg. 129*CHAPTER 7. "Returning Not the Same": ALP's Final Monologue in Finnegans Wake, pg. 163*Notes, pg. 183*Bibliography, pg. 191*Index, pg. 197
