Patrick O'Neill
Professor Emeritus
PhD
German
Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Arts and Science
People Directory Affiliation Category
Research interests: Modern German and comparative literary studies, European literary relations, Translation studies, Narrative and narratology
Education
Doctor of Literature, Ireland, 1994
Ph. D. in German Language and Literature, ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥, 1972
M.A., Ireland, 1968
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Professor O'Neill is author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on German, English, and comparative literature and on aspects of narrative theory and translation studies. His books include:
- Günter Grass: A Bibliography, 1955-1975 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1976)
- German Literature in English Translation: A Select Bibliography (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981)
- Ireland and Germany: A Study in Literary Relations (New York: Peter Lang, 1985)
- Critical Essays on Günter Grass, ed. (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1987)
- The Comedy of Entropy: Humour, Narrative, Reading (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990)
- Fictions of Discourse: Reading Narrative Theory (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994)
- Acts of Narrative: Textual Strategies in Modern German Fiction (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996)
- Günter Grass Revisited (New York: Twayne; London: Prentice Hall, 1999)
- Polyglot Joyce: Fictions of Translation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005)
- Impossible Joyce: Finnegans Wakes (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013)
- Transforming Kafka: Translation Effects. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014)
- Trilingual Joyce: The Anna Livia Variations (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018)
- Finnegans Wakes: Tales of Translation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022).