Nederlandse Letterkunde - Volume 18, Issue 1, 2013

The Middle Dutch plays Esmoreit, Gloriant and Lanseloet, three of the four abele spelen contained in the Hulthem Manuscript, not only belong to the earliest secular theatre literature that has survived from the Middle Ages, they are also the only texts of their time in which a dramatization of chivalric themes and ethics has been preserved. It is true that some of the Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages, a collection of mi Read More

This article explores some eye-catching formal characteristics of the so-called humanitarian variant of literary expressionism as it emerged in the postwar Flemish literary context around 1920, such as the frequent use of rhetorical apostrophe. In particular, it focuses on the typical enunciative patterns in the avant-garde poetry written by Paul van Ostaijen, Wies Moens and Victor Brunclair in the years 1918-1921. What distingui Read More

The autobiographical genre, booming these days, has aroused interest of pragmatic literary approaches that focus on the effects of a text on the reader. They do not highlight questions about the demarcation of the autobiographical genre, but focus on why a reader reads a novel as an autobiographical text. Therefore, the effect of authenticity is the central point. This approach requires attention to intratextual strategie Read More

Debatten over migratie en multiculturaliteit in Nederland en Vlaanderen stonden het afgelopen decennium veelal in het teken van bedreiging en ondergang. Enerzijds kenmerkte het gebruik van metaforen die gevaar en drama suggereren de manier van spreken over de komst en aanwezigheid van migranten. Anderzijds overheerste een doemscenario de wijze waarop de toekomst van de multiculturele samenlevin Read More