Contemporary Explorations in the Culture of the Low Countries: Publications of the American Association for Netherlandic Studies, Vol. 9 - Hardcover

Shetter, William; Van Der Cruysse, Inge

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0819199982 ISBN 13: 9780819199980

Publisher: University Press of America, 1995

Synopsis

Contents: Multatuli's Woutertje Pieterse and Vorstenschool: The (Un) poetic Truth of Upward Mobility; A.W. de Groot's Strukturele syntaxis and Modern Language Theory; Rewriting the History of the Dutch: On the Use of Social History to Explain Linguistic Change; The Moral Economy of Natural History and Medicine in the Dutch Golden Age; Poet after the Death of God; Forum Aesthetics and Incorrectness of F.C. Terborgh; Mennonite Martyrdom in Amsterdam and the Art of Rembrandt and His Contemporaries; The Discovery of the External World in the Short Stories of Carry van Bruggen (1881-1932); Afrikaans Literature in the Netherlands; Color Versus Comportment in the Middle Dutch Moraien; Romeyn de Hooghe: Porno-graveur? A Peek at Seventeenth-Century Dutch Erotica; Determinism versus Contingency and Synchrony versus Diachrony: Explaining "Holes" in Dutch Grammatical Patterns; De Stijl and the Amsterdam School: A Historiographic Dilemma; Stress in Dutch and Afrikaans: A Comparison; Dreams and Pieter Breughel the Elder's Dulle Griet; The Idea of Being a Dutchman; Normative Self-Reflection in Early 17th-Century Amsterdam; Contemporary Afrikaans Literature and the Legacy of Apartheid: The Afrikaner in Search of a New Identity; Body Expressivity in Dutch and Flemish Modern Dance of the Early 1990s; Alexander Morus and John Milton II: Milton, Morus, and Infanticide; Jeroen Brouwers' Sunken Red: The Function of Fiction within the Novel; The Curse of the Missions: Jacob Haafner (1754-1809) and the Christian Missions; "So That It Will Not Happen All Over Again": Narrative Technique in Maria Dermout's The Ten Thousand Things. Co-published with the American Association for Netherlandic Studies.

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Review

Another well-edited PAANS volume. Good diversity of topics.--Margriet Lacy, Dean, Butler University

Synopsis

An exploration into the culture of the low countries. Topics discussed include the social history of the Dutch, the art of Rembrandt, the short stories of Carry van Bruggen, 17th-century Dutch erotica, and the function of fiction within the novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0819199982
• ISBN 13: 9780819199980
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 350