Mylesean Titles: Intertextual Pleasures

Abstract

This note focuses, first, on readers’ likely reactions to the original titles of the works of Brian O’Nolan (alias Flann O’Brien, alias Myles na gCopaleen) and, second, on the likely reactions of target-language readers to the titles of some fifty translations of those same works in a range of European languages.

Keywords

• Literary titles
• translations
• readers' reactions