to the final part of The Politics of Cultural Mediation, Morris then traces the influence of Oscar Wilde, whom Greve had translated into German, on FPG's later fiction, especially on Settlers of the Marsh. Paul Hjartarson finally interprets the process of Grove's own cultural Canadianization against the background of the political and historical situation in the early twentieth century. The third and last part of the volume reprints Felix Paul Greve's essay 'Randarabesken zu Oscar Wilde,' giving us side by side the German original and Paul Morris's reliable but not always literal (is, for example, the Ahasveruszeichen, the mark of Ahasuerus, really the same as 'the mark of Cain'?) translation 'Oscar Wilde: Marginalia in Arabesque.' This turns out to be a programmatic text which gives quasi-prophetic glimpses of the future Frederick Philip Grove, being on the one hand a model text of cultural mediation by presenting Wilde to a German audience, and undergoing, on the other, the process of cultural mediation itself by being translated into English by Paul Morris. Here, however, the reader has a chance of following up the process of mediation because the text is given both in the German original and in Morris's translation. Interestingly enough, Greve sees Wilde as the model of the 'deracinated' or entwurzelte artist who, in striving to develop new roots in a new country, is the ideal cultural mediator. All in all, despite a few minor typographical errors, especially in the German text, this is a very important and highly readable publication that will revive general interest in the writing of Grove, which still offers a rich field of historical and literary investigation, and especially in the fascinating life and work of the Baroness. (MARTIN KUESTER)
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