Examining the cultural dynamics of translation and transfer, Cultural Transfer Reconsideredproposes new insights into both epistemological and analytical questions. With its focus on the North, the book opens perspectives mainly implying textual, intertextual and artistic practices and postcolonial interrelatedness.

Authors’ Biographies Introduction: Reframing the Cultural Transfer Approach  Steen Bille Jørgensen and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink Part 1: Transnational Processes of Cultural Mediation – Dynamic Relation 1 What Are Cultural Transfers? The Russian and Scandinavian Cases  Michel Espagne 2 Cultural Transfers in the Shadow of Methodological Nationalism  Magnus Qvistgaard 3 The Meta-Literary History of Cultural Transmitters and Forgotten Scholars in the Midst of Transnational Literary History  Petra Broomans 4 Representations of Brittany in Norwegian and Finnish Women’s Paintings: How French Realism and Naturalism Took Over Nordic Art and Contributed to Renew Finnish and Norwegian Painting at the End of the 19th Century  Anne-Estelle Leguy Part 2: Aspects of Textual Transfers – Comparison, Intertextuality and Translation 5 Cultural Transfer and Intertextuality: Yambo Ouologuem and the Dynamics of Literary and Cultural Rewriting in the (Post)Colonial African Context  Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink 6 The Cultural Transfer of Genre: The Case of Aphorism in Déwé Gorodé (New Caledonia), Par les temps qui courent  Miriam Lay Brander 7 Textual Transfers and the Poetics of Translation – Literature in Translation, Translation in Literature  Steen Bille Jørgensen Part 3: Perspectives: Types of Distance and Proximity 8 Cultural Transfer and Its Complexities: A Study on Transnational and Transhistorical Mobilities of the Baroque  Walter Moser 9 From Transferts culturels to Transferências culturais: Interdisciplinary and Methodical Dynamics and Translations of the Concept in the Brazilian Context  Wiebke Röben de Alencar Xavier 10 Relations in a Cultural Triangle: Aspects of Cultural Mediation between Germany, France, and Scandinavia  Karin Hoff, Anna Sandberg and Udo Schöning  Translated by Sabina Fazli Index of Names