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Nederlandse Letterkunde - Volume 18, Issue 2, 2013
Volume 18, Issue 2, 2013
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Sara Burgerhart als leeswijzer: literaire socialisatie via lezende personages
Authors: Feike Dietz & Lidewij PonjeeThis article focuses on the eighteenth-century readers of Wolff and Deken’s Sara Burgerhart (1782), who were guided by many fictional readers in the novel. The fictional readers became their compatriots, who teached them how, what and why to read. In this way, fictional readers functioned as instruments of ‘literary socialization’ for the historical readers of the Sara Burgerhart. The analysis of reading in Sara Burgerhart builds upon the scholarly discussion about the development of a reading culture in the eighteenth century. Research on both the administrations of booksellers and the ownership of books revealed that the so-called eighteenth-century reading revolution was a very slow evolution: a new reading public (the middle class) did not expand rapidly. Instead, new readers gradually acquired the competencies and knowledge needed to participate in the complicating literary culture. This article contributes to our understanding of the instruments readers used to become literary socialized.
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Stichtelijke steekspelen Literaire programma’s op de vooroorlogse NCRV-radio (1925-1940)
By Jeroen DeraPre-war radio programmes concerning literature are often described in terms of book promotion, either in the sense of cultural mediation or commercial publicity. This article, however, shows that book programmes also functioned as cultural platforms that allowed literary debates and critical issues to be extended from their printed origins into the realm of new media. By exploring the literary programmes of the Protestant broadcasting organisation NCRV, I will argue that, in practice, literary features did not always conform to a broadcaster’s professed ideals of disseminating culture to the listening masses. Although the NCRV’s book programmes intended to inform a broad Christian audience about (recent) works of literature, the oral reviews were occasionally aimed more specifically at the rank and file of the literary institutions that collaborated with the Protestant broadcasting organisation. In addition, a case study of Piet Risseeuw’s activities at the NCRV reveals that personal issues could also affect the practice of radio criticism.
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