Patrick O'Neill

Professor Emeritus of German
Former Associate Dean (International), Faculty of Arts and Science

Education:
MA (Ireland 1968), PhD (Queen's 1972), DLitt (Ireland 1994)

Tel: 613-533-2072
Email: oneillp@queensu.ca

Research Interests

• Modern German and comparative literary studies
• European literary relations
• Translation studies
• Narrative and narratology
• Poetics and literary semiotics
• Kafka, Grass, Joyce, Beckett

Publications

Books include:

• Impossible Joyce: Finnegans Wakes (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming).
• 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)

Numerous journal articles and book chapters on German, English, and comparative literature and on aspects of narratology and translation studies