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Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde - Volume 141, Issue 3, 2025

Volume 141, Issue 3

Volume 141, Issue 3, 2025

Language: Dutch
  • Artikel

      • Onbetrouwbare vertellers binnen en buiten het boek

        Author:  Inge van de Ven
        https://doi.org/10.5117/TNTL2025.3.001.VEN
        Abstract

        On social media platforms, we are bombarded with small stories, which end up in unpredictable contexts with unforeseen recipients, who actively shape the narrative and become co-authors. As an effect, the unreliable narrator – once a concept reserved for literary criticism – is everywhere. I argue for an expansion of narratological frameworks to better understand the dynamics of trust and unreliability in platformed attention economies, by looking at three domains: platforms, fiction/non-fiction hybrids, and real readers. I illustrate these through the case of the short story ‘Trainer’ (Coach, 2016) by Pim Lammers. Through my analysis of this controversy, I explore the implications of the blurred boundaries between fictional and non-fictional narratives, with particular attention to how readers attribute moral and ideological reliability to authors, narrators, and characters. This allows me to reflect on broader societal challenges around narrative competence, media literacy, and what I call ‘weaponized narrative incompetence’ – the strategic misreading of stories for rhetorical purposes.

    • Wandelend op weg naar geluk

      https://doi.org/10.5117/TNTL2025.3.002.GLOU
      Abstract

      This article provides a comparison of happiness discourses in walking stories published in the series by millennial and non-millennial authors. In order to chart how authors reflect on the interrelatedness of walking and well-being in their walking narratives, we have analysed three stories by millennial-writers – (2023) by Thomas Heerma van Voss, (2020) by Bregje Hofstede and (2021) by Maartje Wortel – and three by non-millennials: (2022) by Stine Jensen, (2022) by Sander Kollaard and (2022) by Marjoleine de Vos. The comparison not only shows that dominant discourses – as articulated by Hyman (2014a) – are strongly recognizable in all travel stories, but also exposes similarities and differences between generations. The titles are consistent with Demeyer and Vitse’s (2021) thesis that the literature of millennials expresses an affective crisis more strongly than that of writers of earlier generations.

    • Worstelen met een briljante boef

      https://doi.org/10.5117/TNTL2025.3.003.SAND
      Abstract

      Summer 2021. The discovery of thousands of handwritten pages by Louis-Ferdinand Céline is causing quite a stir, both in France and beyond. The author of (1932) and (1936) is, after all, known as a scandalous writer, whose reputation is marked by his anti-Semitic pamphlets from the years 1937-1941. The personal and social backgrounds of Céline’s thought has been the subject of much speculation. This article places not the author in the foreground but the reader. How did Dutch authors and critics respond to ‘the problem Céline’: an important writer who held abject views and hurled them into the world with great verbal bravado?

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