There's Lots of Blake in Finnegans Wake: James Joyce's Adaptation of Jerusalem

Critics have long noted the influence of William Blake on James Joyce's final novel, Finnegans Wake. What has been understudied, however, is the way Joyce extends Blake's subversive transformation of the epic tradition in his long poems, especially Jerusalem. While Ulysses is typically regarded as Joyce's major engagement with epic literature, Matthew Leporati argues in this podcast that Finnegans Wake more radically engages it by adapting Jerusalem into a postmodern, postcolonial reflection on empire's fragmentation of the world and on the possibility of creating global unity.