Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde - Volume 135, Issue 1, 2019

Abstract Naming conflicts is a feature of late medieval politics that has not received enough attention. Names and words referring to revolts and social upheaval were certainly not chosen arbitrarily. They were coloured by the opinion and beliefs of the people participating in the rebellion or the authorities suppressing it. This article focuses on one specific example of such ‘event names’, namely Moerlemaye. It refers both to Read More

Abstract This article investigates the ‘horror of vision’ in regard to staged violence in Dutch theatre plays between c. 1635 and 1665. Three plays in particular are analysed in which the violent act of blinding plays an important role. The theatre serves as a mirror for the onlookers who, through looking at characters that look at violence, learn to critically reflect on how they view theatrical violence themselves. The gaze that is pe Read More

Abstract Male-authored books are generally rated higher than books written by women; witness, for instance, the 2017 list of ‘Best Books’ in de Volkskrant, where out of 51 books, only 8 were authored by women. In order to examine whether male-authored texts are actually different from female-authored texts, this article examines whether readers can derive the author’s gender from two paragraphs of anonymous text, Read More