Lessons Experimental Translators Can Learn from Finnegans Wake: Translouting that Gaswind into Turfish [Hardcover]

1. Preface: How To Do Things With Finnegans Wake 2. Translouting into Djreamish  3. Heteronymous Translouters  4. A Showcase of Applied Joycean Translouting: Benjamins Totin Vodka  5. Postface: Translouchewality

Inspiring translators by making specific experimental writing strategies available to them, this book reimagines experimental translation through close readings of Finnegans Wake.

Robinsons engagement with translational aspects of Finnegans Wake provides rich and useful insights into experimental translation that encourage new approaches to translation theory and practice. The author analyses Joyces serial homophonic translations, portmanteau words, and heteronyms along translational lines (following Fritz Senn, Clive Hart, Patrick ONeill, and others), and offers a showcase translation of Walter Benjamins Task of the Translator using all three experimental techniques borrowed from the Wake.

The book will be a valuable addition to any postgraduate course in?translation theory, literary theory, and Joycean literature. Translation?scholars, students, and researchers will find this text a compelling read.

Inspiring translators by making specific experimental writing strategies available to them, this book reimagines experimental translation through close readings of Finnegans Wake.

Douglas Robinson is a prolific scholar, with three dozen books, seven dozen articles and book chapters, and numerous book-length translations from Finnish into English. He has taught all over the world, including the University of Mississippi, the University of Jyv?skyl? and the University of Tampere in Finland, Lingnan Universl³#