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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...
A View of the Oceanby Jan De Hartog
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 11.99The internationally best-selling novelist, playwright Jan de Hartog, author of The Captain and The Peaceable Kingdom , moves and inspires us with this simple, elegant story of his mother and himself. She was a quiet, unassuming woman married to a giant of a man, a famous Protestant theologian and pastor, simple, bighearted and big-muscled, who moved through life with gusto and the commotion of a wagon train and who, but for God, might have become a pirate or a general. He adored his wife and didn’t like anyone else around to claim her attention. Their sons saw him as a monster of egocentricity, a tyrant, a blustering bully; to her he was a sensitive, shy, helpless man with a mission. She believed in him from the moment they met, and... more...
The Look of Thingsby Carsten Strathausen
The University of North Carolina Press 2003; US$ 55.00Examining the relationship between German poetry, philosophy and visual media around 1900, the author argues that the poetic works of Rilke, von Hofmannsthal and George focused on the visible gestalt of language as a means of competing with the increasing popularity of photography and film. 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...
Lanseloet van Denemerkenby H. van Dijk
Amsterdam University Press 2008; US$ 14.00Classic literature of the Middle Ages. (in Dutch) more...
Jacob Cats - Verhalen uit de Trou-ringhby Johan Koppenol
Amsterdam University Press 2003; US$ 21.50In de Trou-ringh (1637) adviseert en beleert Jacob Cats zijn tijdgenoten in tal van huwelijkskwesties, zoals partnerkeuze, hertrouwen, veelwijverij en leeftijds- en standenverschil tussen geliefden. Hij doet dat aan de hand van talrijke verhalen en anekdotes, die de verteller Cats op z'n best tonen. In de bloemlezing vindt men het paradijselijke huwelijksgeluk van Adam en Eva beschreven, maar ook de brute geschiedenis van een dubbele verkrachting, een toverachtig sprookje over een huwelijk door dromen, de geschiedenis van de dochter van karel de Grote die haar vrijer op de rug nam en een vertelling over hoe een listige vrijer een rijke Haagse weduwe verschalkt. De Alfa-reeks omvat Poëzie, proza en toneel uit verschillende eeuwen en van... more...









