Doing Double Dutch

Elke Brems is hoogleraar vertaalwetenschap en Nederlandse taal & cultuur aan de KU Leuven. Orsolya Réthelyi is associate professor of Dutch Literature at the Eötvös Loránd University Budapest and researcher in literary history at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands. Ton van Kalmthout is senior researcher in literary history at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, a research institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

All in all, the feast offered here is great. Chapters 6 to 17 are fascinating case studies that examine aspects of these transfer ventures from Hadewijch and the Elckerlijc to Willem Elsschot and Willem Frederik Hermans. [...] The case studies are preceded by a helpful introductory chapter and four chapters on various questions of methodology. The latter deal with issues like the translator as a (hopefully faithful) mediator, the distribution and reception of these translations across the globe, and the inevitable losses incurred as a result of the trans-lingual operation. Chapter 5 contains a brilliant discussion of possiblegains when a Dutch original is transferred into another language by creative translators. [...] it is a fine volume and is warmly recommended for lovers of Dutch, lay people and specialists alike. Harry Van Dyke, Can. J. of Netherlandic Studies/Rev. can. d’études néerlandaises 39 (2019): 47-50

• CONTENTSINTRODUCTIONChapter 1 Dutch on the Move: Studying the Circulation of Smaller Literatures Elke Brems, Orsolya Réthelyi & Ton van Kalmthout THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CHAPTERSChapter 2 Studying the Circulation of Dutch Literature: Some Considerations Gillis Dorleijn Chapter 3 Breaching the Dyke: The International Reception of ContemporaryDutch Translated Literature Nico Wilterdink Chapter 4 Cultural Mediators in Cultural History: What Do we Learn fromStudying Mediators’ Complex Transfer Activities in Interwar Belgium? Reine Meylaerts, Maud Gonne, Tessa Lobbes & Diana Sanz Roig Chapter 5 Is it Only the Original which Unfolds Anew in the Reception? Herbert Van Uffelen CASE STUDIESChapter 6 From Medieval Dutch Writer to French Film Character: The Presence of Hadewijch in France from the Perspective of the Film Hadewijch (2009) Veerle Fraeters Chapter 7 Elckerlijc, Everyman, Jedermann and Akárki in Hungary: Max Reinhardt and the Transfer of Medieval Dutch Literature Orsolya Réthelyi Chapter 8 The Splendour of Vondel’s Lucifer: Canonicity and Cultural Memory Chiara Beltrami Gottmer, Marijke Meijer Drees, Marco Prandoni & Rita Schlusemann Chapter 9 Vondel’s Lucifer Translating the Text, Translating the Culture Natalia Stachura Chapter 10 What Do we Learn from the Characters of the Novel Sara Burgerhart?On the Transfer of Culture and Ideology in the Image of Fiction Characters at the End of the Eighteenth Century Jan Urbaniak Chapter 11 The Flemish Lion: Oscillating between Past and Present: Ideology in German-Language Adaptations of Conscience’s De Leeuw van Vlaenderen for Young Readers Christine Hermann Chapter 12 The reception of Louis Couperus’ De stille kracht in the English-Speaking world (1921-2015) Caroline de Westenholz Chapter 13 A Communist Compromise: Introducing Willem Elsschot’s Kaas Soviet Style Michel De Dobbeleer Chapter 14 The Case of Kaas: The Reception of Elsschot’s Work in the Czech Language Wilken Engelbrecht Chapter 15 ‘BaBié, zivoublé!’ Ideology and Cultural Transfer: De donkere kamer van Damokles Peter Kegel, Marion Prinse, Matthieu Sergier & Marc van Zoggel Chapter 16 ‘Unexpectedly Moving’? An Inquiry into the Intermedial and International Trajectory of a Flemish Novel Elke Brems, Pieter Boulogne & Stéphanie Vanasten Chapter 17 June is Dutch Literature Month! Online Book Reviewers and their Role in the Transmission of Dutch Literatureto the English-speaking World Suzanne van Putten-Brons & Peter Boot INDEX