Overview
James Joyce's Finnegans Wake has repeatedly been declared to be entirely untranslatable. Nonetheless, it has been translated, transposed, or transcreated into a surprising variety of languages - including complete renditions in French, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Japanese, and Korean, and partial renditions in Italian, Spanish, and a variety of other languages. Impossible Joyce explores the fascinating range of different approaches adopted by translators in coming to grips with Joyce's astonishing literary text. In this study, Patrick O'Neill builds on an approach first developed in his book Polyglot Joyce, but deepens his focus by considering Finnegans Wake exclusively. Venturing from Umberto Eco's assertion that the novel is a machine designed to generate as many meanings as possible for readers, he provides a sustained examination of the textual effects generated by comparative readings of translated excerpts. In doing so, O'Neill makes manifest the ways in which attempts to translate this extraordinary text have resulted in a cumulative extension of Finnegans Wake into an even more extraordinary macrotext encompassing and subsuming its collective renderings.
Full Product Details
Author: Patrick O'Neill
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 16.20cm
, Height: 2.90cm
, Length: 23.70cm
Weight: 0.640kg
ISBN: 9781442646438
ISBN 10: 1442646438
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 06 December 2013
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
‘This is a fascinating and singular examination of the many translations of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake…. This volume will be of great interest to specialists interested in Joyce and his challenging novel… Highly recommended.’ -- C.S. Kalish * Choice Magazine, vol 51:10:2014 *
'This is a fascinating and singular examination of the many translations of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake... This volume will be of great interest to specialists interested in Joyce and his challenging novel... Highly recommended.' -- C.S. Kalish Choice Magazine, vol 51:10:2014
'This is a fascinating and singular examination of the many translations of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake... This volume will be of great interest to specialists interested in Joyce and his challenging novel... Highly recommended.' -- C.S. Kalish
Author Information
Patrick O'Neill is a professor emeritus in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Queen's University.
