Doing double Dutch the international circulation of literature from the Low Countries - Brems, Elke 1971-; Réthelyi, Orsolya; Kalmthout, Ton van 1960- (Leuven University Press, 2017)
"The importance of a minor language in the field of world literature. 0Dutch literature is increasingly understood as a network of texts and poetics connected to other languages and literatures through translations and adaptations. In this book, a team of international researchers explores how Dutch literary texts cross linguistic, historical, geophysical, political, religious, and disciplinary borders, and reflects on a wide range of methods for studying these myriad border crossings. As a result, this volume provides insight into the international dissemination of Dutch literature and the position of a smaller, less-translated language within the field of world literature. The title 'Doing Double Dutch' evokes a popular rope-skipping game in which two people turn two long jump ropes in opposite directions while a third person jumps them. A fitting metaphor for how literature circulates internationally: two dynamic spheres, the source culture and the target culture, engage one another in a complex pattern of movement resulting in a new literary work, translation, or adaptation formed somewhere in the middle."--Back cover
Keywords: Literatur; Niederländisch; Dutch literature / History and criticism; Dutch literature / Translations / History and criticism; Dutch literature; Dutch literature / Translations; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Aufsatzsammlung; Fallstudiensammlung