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Nederlandse Letterkunde - Volume 20, Issue 3, 2015
Volume 20, Issue 3, 2015
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Een veelstemmig verhaal
Authors: Gerard Bouwmeester, Nina Geerdink & Laurens HamAbstractA Polyphonic Story. Authorship in the Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse literatuur
Authorship is a ‘trending topic’ in literary studies: specialists from all periods and languages have published widely on various topics such as posture, self-fashioning, and autonomy. This contribution investigates how these recent debates found their way into the new series of literary histories published on behalf of the Taalunie since 2006 (GNL). We discuss this matter along three lines. First, we show that in the different parts of the GNL there are multiple, sometimes contradicting notions of development of authorship. After that, we demonstrate that there does not seem to be a shared terminology: different scholars use words like ‘broodschrijver’ (hack-writer) with dissimilar meanings and connotations. Finally, it is noted that the writers of GNL-volumes do not have the same ideas about how to deal with authorial (re-)presentation in literary texts. We conclude that, although the editors aimed for a series based on shared starting points, there is not a single narrative about authorship in the GNL-series.
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‘Lieveling, je hebt te doen met iemand die streeft.’
More LessAbstract‘Darling, you are dealing with some someone who strives.’ Herman Gorter’s epistolary posture
Letters from poets to their loved ones are an interesting source for research into their literary and epistolary posture. Studying the 366 letters Herman Gorter wrote to his secret lovers Ada Prins and Jenne Clinge Doorenbos between 1901 and 1927 reveals the interconnectedness of poetry, politics and love in Gorter’s authorial self-presentation. By tracing the individuals who were involved in the distribution and publication of these letters and by investigating their motives and interests, this article addresses the question who is the actual author of the myths surrounding an author’s posture.
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‘En dat vindt u vrouwelijk?’
By Jeroen DeraAbstract“And you think that’s feminine?” Posture versus image in a television interview with Jacques Hamelink (1969)
In recent years, scholars in Dutch literary studies have started to pay more attention to public images of authorship, including appearances of authors on television. In order to analyze such televisual images of literary authors, one might put Jérôme Meizoz’s concept of posture into use. Arguing that this concept is too fuzzy to apply without making a terminological distinction between the process of auto-presentation (resulting into an author’s posture) and hetero-presentation (resulting into an author’s imago), the article analyzes a literary television show of the late 1960s, in which the author Jacques Hamelink is portrayed. The analysis shows both convergences and discrepancies between Hamelink’s posture and his imago, that result from both director’s choices and critical interventions by Hamelink’s interviewer, the female critic Andreas Burnier. Although such interactions between auto-presentation and hetero-presentation can be described more fruitfully if one differentiates between posture and imago, applying Meizoz’s work to literary television can never do full justice to the complex nature of televisual images of authorship.
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Icarus in de schaduw
More LessAbstractIcarus in the shadow. Peter Verhelst’s posture as a paratopic poet
This article focuses on the institutional career of the Flemish author Peter Verhelst (1962) as a poet, without losing sight of the rest of his oeuvre that also includes novels and theatre. I specifically would like to contrast from a diachronic perspective Verhelst’s ‘posture’ (J. Meizoz) with the way he stages his image as a poet in his own writings. The poetry books I would like to use for this are Witte bloemen (1991), Verhemelte (1996) and its relationship with Alaska (2003), Zoo van het denken (2011) and Wij totale vlam (2015). A comparative analysis of the different ‘ethè’ (D. Maingueneau) that the texts contain, enables us to nuance the trajectory and the positioning of the author in the literary field, as it appears that his posture is expressly determined by the staging of a paratopic (D. Maingueneau) sense of identity.
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De dichter als publieke intellectueel: Ramsey Nasr
More LessAbstract"The Poet as Public Intellectual: Ramsey Nasr
Ramsey Nasr is a vibrantly active artist participating in various societal debates and with an intellectual sensitiveness for urgent emancipatory topics. In 2005 he was appointed as city poet in Antwerp and from 2009-2012 he was elected as the Poet Laureate in The Netherlands. Nasr’s poems and essays articulate a moral perspective on the current political conjuncture in the low countries. Moreover, in outspoken opinionated articles he demonstrates his commitment with the Palestinian case in the Middle East. In this article, I argue that the poet in his various official positions takes up a role as public intellectual and uses his cultural authority to emphasise particular political stances. This role is tied to specific acts of self-representation and prompts readers to identify with his opinions, although it arouses strong aversion as well.
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