In the vanguard of cultural transfer : cultural transmitters and authors in peripheral literary fields / edited by Petra Broomans and Marta Ronne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Broomans, Petra, editor.

Ronne, Marta, 1965- editor.

Series:

Studies on cultural transfer and transmission ; Volume 2.

Studies on cultural transfer and transmission ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and culture.

Translations--Economic aspects.

Translations.

Booksellers and bookselling--History.

Booksellers and bookselling.

Translating and interpreting--Social aspects.

Translating and interpreting.

Translating and interpreting--Economic aspects.

Finnish literature--Translations into Swedish.

Finnish literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Groningen : Barkhuis, 2010.

Summary:

This volume is the first publication within the project 'Peripheral Autonomy? Longitudinal analyses of cultural transfer in the literary fields of small language communities', financed by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The project started in 2006 and was one of the spin-offs of the project 'Scandinavian literature in Europe: the influence of language politics, gender and aesthetics' in Groningen. Three universities are involved in the project: Ghent, Groningen and Uppsala. The first workshop 'Reflection on theoretical and methodological points of departure' was held at Ghent in December 2006. A selection of papers from the workshop were published on the project's website, which has been developed to function as a scholarly environment favourable to intellectual exchange concerning the 'Peripheral Autonomy' programme.The essays in this volume, the second in the series Studies on Cultural Transfer and Transmission (CTaT), focus on cultural transfer from the late nineteenth century until 1950. Emphasis is placed on the institutional conditions for cultural transfer, the social role of cultural transmitters and the function of the literature transferred. Gender aspects of cultural transfer are also studied, as well as the connection between changing national identities and varying definitions of national literatures.The volume makes clear that the cultural transmitter has a very important role in cultural transfer and transmission. She/he is active or present in all phases of the process, discovering new authors and genres, and shaping, reconstructing or deconstructing images. Whether or not the foreign literature is received on fertile soil and becomes part of a new literary field, cultural transmitters are pioneers and in the vanguard of cultural transfer.

Contents:

In the vanguard of cultural transfer / Petra Broomans and Marta Ronne

Spread the Word : Arne and Hulda Garborg as Cultural transmitters of Nynorsk / Roald van Elswijk

Marie-Elisabeth Belpaire and Dina Logeman-Van der Willigen : two cultural transmitters in Flanders

in the same literary field? / Ester Jiresch

Greta Baars-Jelgersma, Cora Sandel and the Dutch Literary Field, 1925-1950. Aspects of cross-national literary transfer / Janke Klok

"There is always an invisible reader...' The Swedish critic Margit Abenius and the making of a female cultural transmitter / Marta Ronne

walking the streets of Helsinki : the Flâneur in early Finnish prose literature / Lieven Ameel

One Nation

two literatures? From Finnish to Swedish : Some themes in the translation of Finnish literature into Swedish, 1900-1950 / Anders Nilson

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-175) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789492444622

9492444623