Abstract
According to the witnesses assembled by Richard Ellmann, Joyce, having completed his book of a single day, moved on to tackle a book of the night. Most agree that the Wake, with the darkness and ambiguity of its language, its shifting and merging scenes and identities, and its deep structure of repeated family relationships can properly be called a ‘dream’. Critics such as Bekker (1982) and Norris (1974) show the relevance of the mechanisms of Freudian dream work. It may, as Edmund Wilson implied in his article ‘The Dream of H. C. Earwicker’, be possible to identify the dreamer, or even as subsequent critics such as Nathan Halper (in Dalton and Hart, 1966) and John Gordon (1986) have argued, to assign a place and date to the dream (19 March 1922 and 21 March 1938 respectively).
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Brown, R. (1992). Finnegans Wake. In: James Joyce. Modern Novelists. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21919-3_4
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