Lessons Experimental Translators Can Learn from Finnegans Wake - Translouting that Gaswind into Turfish

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, with close readings of Finnegans Wake along translational lines (following Fritz Senn, Clive Hart, Patrick O-Neill, and others), alongside 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 courses in translation theory, literary theory and Joycean literature. Translation scholars, students and researchers will find this text a compelling read.