Inspiring translators by making specific experimental writing strategies available to them, this book reimagines experimental translation through close readings of Finnegans Wake.
Robinson's 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 Joyce's serial homophonic translations, portmanteau words, and heteronyms along translational lines (following Fritz Senn, Clive Hart, Patrick O'Neill, and others), and offers a showcase translation of Walter Benjamin's "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.
| ISBN: | 9781032746890 |
| Publication date: | 21st May 2026 |
| Author: | Douglas Robinson |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 138 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies |
| Genres: |
Translation and interpretation Literary studies: general |
Inspiring translators by making specific experimental writing strategies available to them, this book reimagines experimental translation through close readings of Finnegans Wake.
Robinson's 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 Joyce's serial homophonic translations, portmanteau words, and heteronyms along translational lines (following Fritz Senn, Clive Hart, Patrick O'Neill, and others), and offers a showcase translation of Walter Benjamin's "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.
Lessons Experimental Translators Can Learn from Finnegans Wake features in the following genres: Translation and interpretation, Literary studies: general
Lessons Experimental Translators Can Learn from Finnegans Wake is available in Paperback, Hardback
Lessons Experimental Translators Can Learn from Finnegans Wake was written by Douglas Robinson and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Lessons Experimental Translators Can Learn from Finnegans Wake has 138 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies series
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