Translating Baby Tuckoo: Portraits of the Artist as a Very Young Man

Authors

  • Patrick O'Neill

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v18i0.3525

Abstract

A comparative reading across several different languages of the opening sentences of Joyce’s text suggests the possible interpretive implications of a macrotextual Portrait.


Keywords: translation effects; transtextual reading; texts and macrotexts.

Author Biography

  • Patrick O'Neill

    Patrick O’Neill is an Irish-born professor emeritus of German at Queen’s University in Canada. He has written widely on German, English, and comparative literature as well
    as on aspects of narrative theory and translation studies. His more recent books include Polyglot Joyce: Fictions of Translation (2005), Impossible Joyce: Finnegans Wakes
    (2013), and Transforming Kafka: Translation Effects (2014).

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Published

17-11-2016

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Section

Centenary of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

How to Cite

O'Neill, P. (2016). Translating Baby Tuckoo: Portraits of the Artist as a Very Young Man. ABEI Journal, 18, 123-138. https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v18i0.3525