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“In greater support of his word”: Monument and Museum Discourse

in Finnegans Wake

Schwartz, John Pedro.

James Joyce Quarterly, Volume 44, Number 1, Fall 2006, pp. 77-93 (Article)

Published by The University of Tulsa

DOI: 10.1353/jjq.2007.0021

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