scholarly journals Imagined social structures: Mirrors or alternatives? A comparison between networks of characters in contemporary Dutch literature and networks of the population in the Netherlands

Poetics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 101379
Author(s):  
Beate Volker ◽  
Roel Smeets
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Dutch Literature

IV. British and Dutch Imperialism: A Comparison

Itinerario ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.L. Wesseling
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Civil Servant ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Form Part ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Netherlands Indies ◽  
Dutch Literature ◽  
In The Beginning

The words that serve as a motto for this paper are taken from the finest novel about Dutch fin de siècle society and indeed, in my opinion, the finest novel in Dutch literature, Louis Couperus' De Boeken der Kleine Zielen (The Books of the Small Souls). They form part of a dialogue between the widow of a former Governor-General of the Netherlands Indies and her, obviously, very dis-appointed grandson, a young colonial civil servant in the beginning of his career.

‘Turf is nu eenmaal een vruchtbaar terrein voor de fantasie’

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 268-291
Author(s):  
Tom Sintobin ◽  
Marguérite Corporaal
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
The Other ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Future Opportunity ◽  
The Social ◽  
De Vries ◽  
Dutch Literature ◽  
The One ◽  
Class Divisions

Abstract ‘After all peat is a fertile soil for the imagination’. The literary representation of bog and peat cutting in Dutch literature, 1909-1940 Novels about peat lands and turf-cutting were immensely popular in the Netherlands during the first decades of the twentieth century. This article traces recurring narratives and tropes in four such novels written by H.H.J.Maas, Antoon Coolen, Anne de Vries, and Theun de Vries, illustrating the ambivalent role that peat lands play in these texts. They function as sites of communality, future opportunity, and disorder on the one hand, and as places of exploitation and alienation on the other. These four novels do not downright reject the introduction of industrial innovations, but some among them are critical of the class divisions that may result. Others seem to acknowledge the hard labour that turf production involves, but do not criticize the social status of the peat-cutters.

scholarly journals A Polarized Discourse: Effects of Opinion Differentiation and Structural Differentiation on Communication

2021 ◽  
pp. 014616722110308
Author(s):  
Namkje Koudenburg ◽  
Yoshihisa Kashima
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Structural Differentiation ◽  
Group Boundaries ◽  
Communicative Behaviors ◽  
Societal Issues ◽  
Communication Expectations ◽  
Representative Samples ◽  
Actual Polarization

In Western societies, many polarized debates extend beyond the area of opinions, having consequences for social structures within society. Such segmentation of society into opinion-based groups may hinder communication, making it difficult to reconcile viewpoints across group boundaries. In three representative samples from Australia and the Netherlands ( N = 1,206), we examine whether perceived polarization predicts the quality (harmony, comfort, and experience of negative emotions) and quantity (avoidance of the issue) of communication with others in the community. We distinguish between perceived opinion differentiation (i.e., the extent to which opinions in society are divided) and perceived structural differentiation (i.e., the extent to which society fissions into subgroups). Results show that although opinion differentiation positively predicts the discussion of societal issues, the belief that these opinions reflect a deeper societal divide predicts negative communication expectations and intentions. We discuss how polarization perceptions may reinforce communicative behaviors that catalyze actual polarization processes.

scholarly journals Nieuwe momenten? De Nederlandse roman na 1985

Literator ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-135
Author(s):  
E. Francken
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Dutch Society ◽  
Dutch Literature

New moments? The Dutch novel after 1985 Looking at the years 1985-2000, a few questions about Dutch literature seem to be relevant. Which new Dutch novels were the most successful? Which changes occurred in Dutch society during that same period? And in the literary world of the Netherlands? This article attempts to answer these questions, while at the same time arguing for a new edition of Jacques van der Elst’s Momente van die Nederlandse letterkunde (Moments in Dutch literature).

Recent Dutch Contributions to Modern Indonesian History

1967 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Pluvier
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Second World War ◽  
First Year ◽  
World War ◽  
History Writing ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Netherlands Indies ◽  
Dutch Literature ◽  
Dutch History ◽  
Second World

The limitation of this essay seems obvious if we take modern Indonesian history to have started in 1870 and consider the word “recent” in the above title adequately covered by the years since 1940. The date 1870 is the starting-point of Western modern imperialism — a world-wide phenomenon — as well as of the so-called Liberal Period in the restricted Indonesian context. Thus the heyday of Dutch colonialism, the emergence of Indonesian nationalism, the downfall of the Netherlands Indies and the first decades of Indonesian independence fall within the scope of this survey. The choice of 1940, too, can be explained easily: it is the first year of the period which ultimately led not only to the political separation of the Indies and the Netherlands but also to a new approach in Dutch history-writing on Indonesia. This is not to sav that opinions critical of colonialism had not found their way into Dutch literature on Indonesia before 1940, or that opposition to the so-called Europe-centric attitude is to be noticed only after the Second World War: Stokvis and Van Leur, to mention only one for each case, are evidence that this was not so. Nor is it true that colonial apologists are extinct since 1940. But the Second World War nevertheless contributed to a significant change in the general trend of Dutch history-writing on Indonesia.

scholarly journals Branding Books Across the Ages

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Marketing Process ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Academic Discussion ◽  
Dutch Literature

As marketing specialists know all too well, our experience of products is prefigured by brands: trademarks that identify a product and differentiate it from its competitors. This process of branding has hitherto gained little academic discussion in the field of literary studies. Literary authors and the texts they produce, though, are constantly 'branded': from the early modern period onwards, they have been both the object and the initiator of a complex marketing process. This book analyzes this branding process throughout the centuries, focusing on the case of the Netherlands. To what extent is our experience of Dutch literature prefigured by brands, and what role does branding play when introducing European authors in the Dutch literary field (or vice versa)? By answering these questions, the volume seeks to show how literary scholars can account for the phenomenon of branding.

scholarly journals Tsjechische ballingschrijvers in Nederland: de positie van Jana Beranová en Jan Stavinoha in het literaire veld

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (5 Zeszyt specjalny) ◽  
pp. 37-51
Author(s):  
Lucie Sedláčková
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Political Refugees ◽  
Dutch Literature ◽  
Second Generation Migrants

Dutch literature of the 1990s can be characterised by a significant boom in the so-called multicultural (or intercultural) authors (political refugees and second-generation migrants). Jana Beranová and Jan Stavinoha, two authors of Czech origin debuting in poetry and fiction in the early 1980s, did not fully participate in this trend. This article deals with the reception of these two exiles in the Netherlands, and the possibility of their entrance into the literary canon. One of the aspects investigated in more detail is their self-presentation, namely, whether, and to what extent, they assumed an exilic posture.

scholarly journals In How Far is Elckerlijc Dutch? References to the Dutch Origin in the Polish Reception of the Middle Dutch Text

Werkwinkel ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-107
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Dowlaszewicz
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Dutch Text ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Main Issue ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Middle Dutch ◽  
Dutch Literature ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Original Story

Abstract The sixteenth-century morality play Elckerlijc is one of the few texts mentioned in almost all Dutch canon lists. It is no surprise that this is one of the few medieval Dutch texts transferred into different languages and cultures. There are two Polish texts based on it, the first from 1921 by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (Kwidam), the second from 1933 by Stanisław Helsztyński (Każdy (Everyman): średniowieczny moralitet angielski). The text was though never directly translated into Polish from Dutch. The main issue is whether these translations have influenced the image of Dutch literature in Poland. It appears that secondary literature has seen the plays of Iwaszkiewicz and Helsztyński only as transfer of German or English literature and ideas and that it is rarely known that the original story originates from the Netherlands.

Het prozagedicht in Vlaanderen en Nederland als model

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-275
Author(s):  
Carl de Strycker ◽  
Hans Vandevoorde
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Prose Poem ◽  
World War ◽  
First Case ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Dutch Literature ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Productive Model

Abstract The Prose Poem in Flanders and the Netherlands as a Model. On Genres and GenerationsThis article explores the ways in which the genre of the prose poem functioned as a model in Flemish and Dutch literature from the 1890’s to the 1920’s. Focusing on two cases ‐ a prewar and a postwar one ‐, it is argued that the genre was reinterpreted by new literary generations and, infused with new elements, became a productive model for new texts. A first case study deals with Pol de Mont and Ellen Corr. The former modified the model as he borrowed it from the authors of the Eighties movement, and it subsequently became a productive model for an epigone like Corr. In a second case study, dealing with Herman Heijermans and Constant van Wessem, we show how the genre was modified again in the period following World War I, and was made to incorporate modern elements such as cinematic processes and a businesslike, objective form. Finally, these cases reveal that models go beyond the genre, since their evolution is often based on eye-catching features that are not necessarily essential to the definition of the genre per se.

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