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  • Konzepte des Hermetismus in der Literatur der Frühen Neuzeitby Peter-André Alt; Volkhard Wels

    Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2010; US$ 50.04

    Hauptbeschreibung Im Sinne einer Weisheitslehre mit konfessionell übergreifender Tendenz fand das hermetische Denken im frühneuzeitlichen Europa wachsende Resonanz in Dichtung und Philosophie. Der Hermetismus steht dabei in engen Bezügen zum Paracelsismus, zur Alchemie, zum Rosenkreuzertum, zum Neuplatonismus, zur christlichen Kabbala und zur Mystik.... more...

  • Dialog mit den Nachbarnby Bernd Bastert; Helmut Tervooren; Frank Willaert

    Erich Schmidt Verlag 2011; US$ 86.06

    Hauptbeschreibung Die mittelniederländische Literatur, die zwischen dem 12. und 16. Jh. im flämischen, brabantischen, holländischen und limburgisch-maasländischen Sprachgebiet einschließlich des heutigen deutschsprachigen Niederrheins entstand, gehört, was Gattungsvielfalt, Thematik und Originalität im Umgang mit den bearbeiteten Quellen betrifft,... more...

  • Schrijvende vrouwenby Jacqueline Bel; Thomas Vaessens

    Amsterdam University Press 2010; US$ 39.50

    Dit boek laat de lezer in zesenvijftig schrijversportretten kennismaken met de breedte en de rijkdom van de Nederlandstalige literatuur sinds 1880. Zoals alle geschiedenissen is ook deze kleine geschiedenis selectief. In dit boek draait het om de vraag wat er gebeurt wanneer we een louter vrouwelijke lijn door de moderne Nederlandse en Vlaamse literatuur... more...

  • Hoe moet ik het me voorstellen?by Jan Bloemendal

    Amsterdam University Press 2007; US$ 10.50

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  • Het heilige huisby Rosemarie Buikema; Lies Wesseling

    Amsterdam University Press 2006; US$ 37.90

    How 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... more...

  • Poesie und Philologie in der Goethe-Zeitby Matthias Buschmeier

    De Gruyter 2008; US$ 133.00

    The 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... more...

  • Wissen in Literatur im 19. Jahrhundertby Lutz Danneberg; Friedrich Vollhardt; Jörg Schönert; Hartmut Böhme

    De Gruyter 2002; US$ 147.00

    The theme of this volume, 'knowledge in literature', refers not to the way in which literature communicates cultural phenomena, events, and norms regulating or reflecting everyday action and behaviour. Instead, it focuses on the 'new knowledge' about nature and the human animal produced (or rejected) in individual branches of science and learning since... more...

  • Humour in Dutch Culture of the Golden Ageby Dr Rudolf Dekker

    Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 152.00

    The humorous side of Dutch culture of the seventeenth century is obscured by a change that took place around 1670. Religious treatises and books of manners warning against laughter contributed to a new image, that of the humourless, Calvinist Dutch. Mainly based on a manuscript with some two thousand jokes, the lost laughter of the Golden Age is reconstructed... more...

  • De fiere nachtegaalby Louis Peter Grijp; Frank Willaert

    Amsterdam University Press 2008; US$ 51.75

    Covers the various facets of Dutch medieval music until the year 1600 more...

  • Lezen achter de lettersby Hella S. Haasse

    Amsterdam University Press 2007; US$ 56.25

    In 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... more...