van Gerwen Heleen van Gerwen & Merrigan Klaartje Merrigan 
Transfer Thinking in Translation Studies [PDF ebook] 
Playing with the Black Box of Cultural Transfer

Innovativeand interdisciplinary approach to transfer The concept of transfer coversthe most diverse phenomena of circulation, transformation and reinterpretationof cultural goods across space and time, and are among the driving forces inopening up the field of translation studies. Transfer processes crosslinguistic and cultural boundaries and cannot be reduced to simple movementsfrom a source to a target (culture or text). In a time of paradigm shifts, thisbook aims to explore the potential and interdisciplinary power of transfer as aconcept and an analytical tool to account for complex cultural dynamics. The contributions in this book adopt variousresearch angles (literary studies, imagology, translation studies, translatorstudies, periodical studies, postcolonialism) to study an array of entangledtransfer processes that apply to different objects and aspects, ranging fromliterary texts, legal texts, news, images and identities to ideologies, powerasymmetries, titles and heterolingualisms. By embracing a process-oriented wayof thinking, all these contributions aim to open the black box of transfer inthe widest sense.Contributors: Susan Bassnett (University of Glasgow /University of Warwick), Pieter Boulogne (KU Leuven), Andrew Chesterman (Universityof Helsinki), Yves Chevrel (Sorbonne University / University Stefan cel Mare), Dirk Delabastita (University of Namur), Yves Gambier (University of Turku), Maud Gonne (University of Namur / UCLouvain), Ramune Kasperaviciene (Kaunas University of Technology), Dainora Maumeviciene (Kaunas University of Technology), Reine Meylaerts (KU Leuven / University of Bloemfontein), Jean-Marc Moura (University of Paris Nanterre), Isabelle Nieres-Chevrel (Rennes 2University), Christina Schaffner (Aston University), Michael Schreiber(University of Mainz), Luc van Doorslaer(University of Tartu / Stellenbosch University)This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).