Finnegans Wake and the Foenix Culprit: Here Comes Everybody's Original Sin.

The article explores how James Joyce's Finnegans Wake uses multilingual puns, especially "foenix culprit," to dramatize original sin as an inherited yet personal guilt, drawing on Thomas Aquinas to show that all humanity shares one nature. Topics include the pun as a revelatory technique, the trial...

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Publicado en:	Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought & Culture Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 93 - 111
Autor principal:	HREN, JOSHUA
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought & Culture Spring2026
Materias:	Finnegans Wake (Book : Joyce) Original sin Puns & punning Irish authors Joyce, James, 1882-1941 Literature Hermeneutics Philosophers Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, ca. 1225-1274 Guilt (Psychology)
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Sumario:	The article explores how James Joyce's Finnegans Wake uses multilingual puns, especially "foenix culprit," to dramatize original sin as an inherited yet personal guilt, drawing on Thomas Aquinas to show that all humanity shares one nature. Topics include the pun as a revelatory technique, the trial of Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker for a mysterious crime; and Aquinas's doctrine of original sin as collective guilt transmitted through generation.