- ISSN: 1384-5829
- E-ISSN: 2352-118X
-
oa (On)conventioneel lezen
Oude genres, nieuwe romans, tijdloze frames
- Amsterdam University Press
- Source: Nederlandse Letterkunde, Volume 22, Issue 1, Feb 2017, p. 47 - 70
Abstract
Abstract
(Un)conventional reading. Old genres, new novels, timeless frames
In this paper, I want to present an approach to read complex novels: genre-reading. Adopting this new approach, a genre and its conventions are used as a frame in order to guide the reader’s interpretation process. This procedure is illustrated with the example of the Dutch novel The Blessed Ones (De gelukzaligen) by Willem Brakman (1997), which is read from the perspective of the genre conventions of the 18th-century imaginary travel story. To conclude the article, the proposed reading process is generalized by using a different genre (the naturalist novel) as a frame to analyze Brakman’s novel.
© 2017 Amsterdam University Press
