Abstract
This essay places Joyce’s Finnegans Wake in the tradition of Christian epic poetry and explores its continuation of the claim to theological revelation in and through the poetic word. It brings to light the theological underpinnings of structures of repetition inherent in language, in its phonemic and graphic materials, as exposed by Joyce’s inimitable juggling and shuffling with his linguistic medium, bringing out unsuspected nuances by deforming, recombining and juxtaposing linguistic signifiers. This opens a very new perspective on theological revelation in its constitutively verbal and performative character, even while maintaining constant contact with the revelation of the Word in the Bible and its appropriation by forms of literary discourse from the epic to the novel.
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