Nederlandse Letterkunde - Volume 14, Issue 2, 2009

In contrast to most studies on cultural globalization, this article examines the dynamics of cross-cultural exchange between and within (western) nation-states. Through content analysis, we examine the extent and composition of the newspaper coverage given to literary authors of non-western ethnic origin – both foreign and domestic – in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States between 1955 and 2005 Read More

In this article, I examine the changing emblematic genre of the eighteenth century. Once functioning as complex riddles for a learned audience, emblems came to be direct moralisations for a large audience during the Enlightenment. The textual and visual allegories which, in combination with the iconological tradition, once served as vehicle for the transfer of knowledge were replaced by different structures of meaning. T Read More

The novel Mim (2007) by A.F.Th. van der Heijden is closely connected with S-ophocles’ Oedipus Rex. This article examines the relationship between the Dutch novel and the Greek drama. It demonstrates that a ‘diegetic transposition’ is involved: Van der H-eijden has transposed the Oedipus theme more or less literally into a late twentieth-century context. His main character Movo / Tibbolt Satink is a latter-day Oedipus who n Read More

This article adresses the question of the institutional position of literature within jurisdiction and of the poetics of jurisdiction with regard to cases in which writers are accused of crimes that have nothing to do with literature. Dutch cases from the 1920s onwards are taken in order to see whether literature is dealt with in these procedures and if so, how it was looked at. This focus will be combined with using the Oscar Wilde-case in Read More