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Reformpoetikby Stefanie Stockhorst
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 157.00The obvious gaps in standardisation in German baroque poetics are partially filled by poetological prefaces. Despite this, however, taught genre norms remain quite tentative. This absence of binding norms affords an artistic latitude, the significance of which has hitherto been underestimated. The study provides a systematic analysis of the theoretical genre standards laid down in poetological manuals and prefaces. The wealth of material presented also makes the volume useful as a compendium of genre history. more...
De fiere nachtegaalby Louis Peter Grijp; Frank Willaert
Amsterdam University Press 2008; US$ 51.75Covers the various facets of Dutch medieval music until the year 1600 more...
Het heilige huisby Rosemarie Buikema; Lies Wesseling
Amsterdam University Press 2006; US$ 37.90How does the use of ict affect the relationship between government and its citizens? This book analyses the developments of networking information and concludes that in everyday practice an iGovernment has gradually come into existence, overtaking the old paradigm of the eGoverment. The iGoverment, effectively running at full speed on information flows and networks, is however seriously out of step with the self-image of the digital government, and the existing structure and division of responsibilities. This book is based on the report on iGovernment that the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) presented to the Dutch Government in March 2011. more...
Om beters willeby Anne-Laure van Bruaene
Amsterdam University Press 2008; US$ 51.75In the 15th and 16th century a special institute developed in Flanders and Brabant: the chamber of rhetoric. Regular citizens started theater and lyricks, in small closed groups and in public. This study gives an overview of 227 chambers of rhetoric, the more...
Poesie und Philologie in der Goethe-Zeitby Matthias Buschmeier
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 112.00The book contains studies in the exchange relationship between literary and academic discourse, with an emphasis on the period from approx. 1750 to approx. 1830. The authors dealt with include F. A. Wolf, J. G. Herder, F. Schlegel, Achim v. Arnim, the Brothers Grimm and Goethe. The focal point is the question of how literature reacts to becoming the object of academic study itself. In this debate, the main point at issue is the function of literature as a central medium for the creation of tradition. Here the debate also links on with the present-day academic discussion on the philological rollback in literary studies. more...
Lezen achter de lettersby Hella S. Haasse
Amsterdam University Press 2007; US$ 56.25In de bundel Lezen achter de letters is een ruime keuze te vinden uit de essays over literatuur die Hella Haasse vanaf 1965 publiceerde. In die productie van meer dan veertig jaar laat zij haar schrijversblik gaan over het werk van bijna alle grote collega-auteurs van haar tijd, zoals W.F. Hermans, S. Vestdijk en Jan Wolkers. In haar analyses combineert Haasse een uiterst zorgvuldige lectuur met het vermogen om in de door haar naar voren gehaalde literaire werken een persoonlijke visie te projecteren. more...
Verzamelde gedichtenby Ed. Hoornik
Amsterdam University Press 2006; US$ 53.50Ed. Hoornik is door Martinus Nijhoff wel 'de eerste twintigste-eeuwer' in de Nederlandse poëzie genoemd, omdat hij door 'zijn nieuwe kijk op mensen en dingen' en door zijn 'gebondenheid aan de tragiek' van de tijd waarin hij leefde een ander uitgangspunt hanteerde dan de dichters uit de voorafgaande generatie. Ook J.C. Bloem maakte zich sterk voor Hoorniks poëzie en roemde onder meer de 'verbluffende veelzijdigheid' ervan. Van de vroegste, sociaal-geëngageerde verzen uit de jaren dertig, via langere gedichtencycli als Mattheus, Geboorte en Requiem, ontwikkelde Hoornik in zijn naoorlogse werk een even fatale als zachtmoedige stem, die hem tot een van de modern-klassieke dichters in de twintigste-eeuwse Nederlandse... more...
Anne Frankby Francine Prose
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 10.99In June 1942, Anne Frank received a red-and-white- checked diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in an Amsterdam attic to escape the Nazis. For two years, with ever-increasing maturity, Anne crafted a memoir that has become one of the most compelling documents of modern history. She described life in vivid, unforgettable detail, explored apparently irreconcilable views of human nature—people are good at heart but capable of unimaginable evil—and grappled with the unfolding events of World War II, until the hidden attic was raided in August 1944. But Anne Frank's diary, argues Francine Prose, is as much a work of art as a historical record. Through close reading, she marvels... more...









