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
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Publicado: Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought & Culture Spring2026
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