1.Forked Tongues: Theory from Translation to Transduction; Exploring New Avenues of Translation; Jakobson's Concept of Poetry in Translation; From Translation to Transduction; Sebeok's Transduction; 2. Wave after Wave: Wagner's Waves Eclipsed by Virginia Woolf; Play Within Play; Three Waves; Wagner's Water Music; Virginia Woolf's Brain Waves; 3. War and Love: The Parabolic Retranslation in Berlioz's Opera; Berlioz's Poetical Drama; Olympic Odyssey; Hunt and Storm; 4. The Threepenny Opera: Jakobson's Poetics Retranslated in the Spirit of Brecht's Work-Plays; New Tongues for Brecht's Language; Brecht Juggling with Gay's The Beggar's Opera; From Speech to Criminal Slang; Epic Epilogue; Bibliography; Index

Dinda L. Gorlée works as a general linguist at the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen.