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Ahern, Tim. Finnegans Wake, Chapter One: The Illnesstraited Colossick Idition. Seattle: U of Washington P, 1983.

Anderson, John P. Finnegans Wake: The Curse of Kabbalah. 3 vols. Boca Raton, FL: Universal Publishers, 2008-2010.

Atherton, James S. The Books at the Wake: A Study of Literary Allusions in James Joyce’s FinnegansWake. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois UP, 1959.

Beckett, Samuel, et al. Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress. 1929. New York: New Directions, 1972.

Beckman, Richard. Joyce’s Rare View: The Nature of Things in “Finnegans Wake.” Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2007.

Begnal, Michael H. Dreamscheme: Narrative and Voice in Finnegans Wake. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse UP, 1988.

Begnal, Michael H., and Grace EckleyNarrator and Character in Finnegans Wake. Lewisburg, PA.: Bucknell UP, 1974.

Begnal, Michael H., and Fritz Senn, edsA Conceptual Guide to Finnegans Wake. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1974.

Benstock, Bernard. Joyce-Again’s Wake: An Analysis of Finnegans Wake. Seattle: U of Washington P, 1966.

Best, Nigel. Dawn: A Study of the Present Age and Finnegans Wake through a Close Look at FW Page 594: One Page Sufficient for Our Time. New Plymouth, NZ: Dawn, 1979.

Bishop, John. Joyce’s Book of the Dark: Finnegans Wake. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1986.

Bonheim, Helmut. A Lexicon of the German in Finnegans Wake. Berkeley: U of California P, 1967.

Brivic, Sheldon. Joyce’s Waking Women: An Introduction to Finnegans Wake. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1995.

Campbell, Joseph, and Henry Morton Robinson. A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake. New York: Viking, 1961.

Campos, Augusto de, and Haroldo de Campos. Panorama de Finnegans Wake. Sao Paulo: ConselhoEstadual de Cultura, Comissao de Literature.

Cheng, Vincent John. Shakespeare and Joyce: A Study of Finnegans Wake. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1984.

Christiani, DouniaScandinavian Elements of Finnegans Wake. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1965.

Conley, Tim, edJoyce’s Disciples Disciplined: A Re-Exagmination of the ‘Exagimination’ of ‘Work in Progress.’  Dublin: University College Dublin P, 2010.

Connolly, Thomas E (ed.). James Joyce’s Scribbledehobble: The Ur-Workbook for Finnegans Wake. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1961.

Crispi, Luca, and Sam Slote, edsHow Joyce Wrote Finnegans Wake: A Chapter-by-Chapter Genetic Guide. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2007.

Dalton, Jack P., and Clive Hart, edsTwelve and a Tilly: Essays on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of Finnegans Wake. London: Faber and Faber, 1966.

DiBernard, Barbara. Alchemy and Finnegans Wake. Albany: State U of New York P, 1980.

Epstein, Edmund Lloyd. A Guide Through Finnegans Wake. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2009.

Fordham, Finn. Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake: Unravelling Universals. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007.

Gibson, George Cinclair“Wake” Rites: The Ancient Irish Rituals of “Finnegans Wake.” Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2005.

Glasheen, AdalineThird Census of Finnegans Wake: An Index of the Characters and Their Roles. Berkeley: U California P, 1977.

Gordon, John. Finnegans Wake: A Plot Summary. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1986.

—. Notes on Issy. Colchester: Wake Newslitter Press, 1982.

Hart, Clive. A Concordance to Finnegans Wake. Mamaroneck, NY: Appel, 1974.

—, and Fritz SennA Wake Digest. Sydney: Sydney UP, 1968.

Harty, John. James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. New York: Garland, 1991.

Hayman, David. A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake. Austin: U of Texas P, 1963.

—. The “Wake” in Transit. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1990.

Hofheinz, Thomas C. Joyce and the Invention of Irish History: Finnegans Wake in Context.Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995.

Kitcher, Philip. Joyce’s Kaleidoscope: An Invitation to “Finnegans Wake.” Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007.

Lernout, GeertFinnegans Wake: Fifty Years. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1990.

McCarthy, Patrick A. Critical Essays on James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. New York: G. K. Hall, 1992.

—. The Riddles of Finnegans Wake. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP; London: Associated UP, 1980.

McHugh, Roland. Annotations to Finnegans Wake. 3rd ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2006.

—. The Finnegans Wake Experience. Berkeley: U of California P, 1981.

—. The Sigla of Finnegans Wake. Austin: U of Texas P, 1976.

McLuhan, Eric. The Role of Thunder in Finnegans Wake. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1997.

Mink, Louis O. A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1978.

Norris, Margot. The Decentered Universe of Finnegans Wake: A Structuralist Analysis. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1977.

O Hehir, Brendan. A Gaelic Lexicon for Finnegans Wake, and Glossary for Joyce’s Other Works.Berkeley: U of California P, 1967.

Phipps, Frances. Let Me Be Los: Codebook for Finnegans Wake. Barrytown, NY: Station Hill P, 1985.

Platt, Len. Joyce, Race and Finnegans Wake. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007.

Rose, DanisThe Textual Diaries of James Joyce. Dublin: Lilliput P, 1995.

—, and John O’HanlonUnderstanding Finnegans Wake: A Guide to the Narrative of James Joyce’s Masterpiece. New York: Garland, 1982.

Škrabánek, PetrNight Joyce of a Thousand Tiers: Studies in Finnegans Wake. Ed. Louis Armand and Ondřej Pilný. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2002

Solomon, Margaret C. Eternal Geomater: The Sexual Universe of Finnegans Wake. Carbondale; London: Southern Illinois UP, 1969.

Tindall, William York. A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake. London: Thames and Hudson, 1969.

Treip, Andrew, edFinnegans Wake: “teems of times.” Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994.

Troy, Mark L. Mummeries of Resurrection: The Cycle of Osiris in Finnegans Wake. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1976.