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Joyce weaves the structural maze in Finnegans Wake with postmodern attributes, interconnected and diversified freely within the a postpostmodern framework. The structural boundary of Finnegans Wake, shaped and developed in terms of the Viconian concept of cycle, is the backbone of superstructural as well as substructural frameworks in the creation of the differentiated and individuated characters. The innovative techniques and insights which Joyce adopted in the writing of Finnegans Wake several decades ago correspond to cultural attributes of the postmodern age and after. First, Joyce creates characters in Finnegans Wake, and builds his artistic world with the encyclopedic knowledge and facts of human life which he collects and records. Second, in the systemic networking, each substructural cycle within the superstructural weaves together the interconnection of Joyce’s characters. Third, as shown in thermodynamics and Freudian psychoanalysis, a precursor of Lacanian psychology, Joyce writes Finnegans Wake in terms of postmodern and postpostmodern/new modern insights ahead of his time and unconsciously. In consideration of Joyce’s achievements, more studies on Finnegans Wake in terms of the shift of paradigm are expected to discover how his insightful adoption of new techniques leads to the formulation of the postpostmodern framework.
