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Patrick O'Neill

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


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

Tel: 613-533-2815
Fax: 613-533-6453
Email: oneillp@post.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:

  • 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

 

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