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Dichters op reis
(2018)
How do contemporary Dutch-language poets view their neighbouring countries, South and Central Europe and Indonesia?
This collection of research articles explores modern travel poetry, a genre which to this day has hardly ...
Juigchen in den adel der menschelijke natuur. Het verhevene in de Nederlanden (1770-1830)
(2011)
A storm at sea, hanging cliffs, volcano eruptions at night, threatening thunderclouds over a desolate mountain landscape: all these phenomena incite both fear and pleasure, astonishment and fascination. We call them sublime, ...
Key Concepts in Philosophy
(2015)
The book provides an introduction to six fundamental philosophy concepts - philosophy, language, knowledge, truth, being and good. At the same time, it aims to initiate its readers into the process of philosophical thinking. ...
Allemaal beestjes. Mortaliteit en morbiditeit in Vlaanderen, 18de-20ste eeuw
(2006)
This book treats the spectacular rise in life expectancy during the last three centuries. It is the first study to bring together both published and unpublished material about the history of the health of Belgian men and ...
Woekering en weigering
(2018)
Jacq Vogelaar was the most radical champion of experimental form in post-war Dutch literature. After his debut in 1965, he published a series of novels in which he progressively pushed the dismantling of the traditional ...
Grote gevoelens in de literatuur
(2015)
Grote gevoelens waren lange tijd taboe in de literatuurstudie. Ze werden immers geassocieerd met hol pathos, geforceerde retoriek en zelfs met melodrama en sentimentaliteit. Deze bundel essays breekt een lans voor een ...
Over lezers en lezen = On readers and reading
(2023)
Hoe lezen we vandaag? In een poging tot antwoord op deze vraag benaderen de bijdragen in CLW 14 de cultuurtechniek van het lezen als cognitief proces, fysieke activiteit, sociaal gedrag of institutionele praktijk. Samengebracht ...
Modernisme = Modernism
(2021)
CLW13 schetst een actueel beeld van modernismestudies aan verschillende Belgische universiteiten. De essays in deze collectie boren nieuwe archieven aan van minder gekende teksten en auteurs, of stellen innovatieve denkkaders ...
Oproer in de letteren
(2021)
Our collective memory still associates the sixties with protest culture, but the legacy of the demonstrations is a topic of discussion to date. There is no shortage of myths about the sixties, but many facts and details ...
Voicing in Contrast. Acquiring a Second Language Laryngeal System
(2010)
Drawing on both rule-based and constraint-based approaches, Voicing in Contrast examines typological differences in the laryngeal systems of Dutch and English and investigates the extent to which native speakers of Dutch ...
Stad en migratie in de literatuur
(2016)
Urbanity and migration are considered to be two basic components in definitions of modernity. They force us to reflect on how the boundaries between the local and the global are determined and surpassed. Often this results ...
Terra Incognita. Globalisering, ecologie en rechtvaardige duurzaamheid
(2006)
Despite all attempts by many governments in the world to ascribe to the Holy Grail of ‘sustainable development’, Ecosystem Earth is confronted with a gargantuan sustainability crisis. The West has seduced the rest of the ...
Jan Walravens en het experiment
(2011)
Jan Walravens (1920-1965) played a central role in Flemish literature as he introduced and facilitated literary experiments after the second world war. He was a leading essayist and literary critic, who wrote thousands of ...
Minoes, Minnie, Minu en andere katse streken. De internationale receptie van Annie M.G. Schmidts Minoes
(2017)
This volume focuses on the international reception of Annie M.G. Schmidt’s Minoes, the most translated Dutch children’s book. The authors investigate the reception and adaptations in the Netherlands and Flanders, the French ...
Van Siska van Rosemael tot Max Havelaar
(2021)
Migration of literature across regional and national borders is a thriving research topic. This issue of LLS is the first general overview of the reception of Dutch-language literature in Czech translation in the period ...
De auteur
(2014)
Toen Roland Barthes en Michel Foucault in de jaren zestig van de twintigste eeuw de aanval openden op het idee van de auteur als begin van alle literatuurstudie, leek de auteur voorgoed te zullen verdwijnen als object ...
Marges van de literatuur
(2013)
Hoe kunnen we de 'marge' in relatie tot de literatuur conceptualiseren? Wat betekent het een tekst 'marginaal' te noemen? In welke mate speelt de literatuurwetenschap een centrale rol in het beschrijven van (zelfverklaarde) ...
Over taalbewustzijn en taalvariatie
(2019)
The study scrutinizes the effects of language awareness on teachers’ conceptualization of language variation. Teacher language awareness has been discussed mostly for the case of English and with regard to grammar, and is ...
Human Rights and Natural Law
(2012-01-01)
It was in ancient Greek philosophy where the idea arose that there is a supreme law before which any civil law created by human societies has to be justified. Since then the concept of natural law not only remained one of ...
Connectivity and creativity in times of conflict
(2023)
This book contains academic papers and posters of the Cumulus Antwerp conference, held in Antwerp on 12-15 April 2023. The Cumulus community, designers, artists, and educators were invited to submit contributions on how ...
Dynamisch Inter(- en Trans)disciplinair TaalOnderzoek. De nieuwe taalwetenschappen
(2006)
Language research is currently in a state of flux. The phenomenon of language is not merely the topic of investigation in linguistics, it is examined by a multitude of scholars with different scientific backgrounds. In ...
Literatuurwetenschap en uitgeverijonderzoek
(2012)
Over the last few decades cultural sociology and book history have stimulated the study of publishers and their role in the production, distribution, reception and consumption of literature. As such these disciplines have ...
Ieder zijn eigen Arnon Grunberg. Vertaling, promotie en receptie in Italië, Spanje, Catalonië, Portugal en Roemenië
(2012)
This third volume of Lage Landen Studies offers a glimpse of recent international and internationalizing trends in Dutch Studies. It presents a comparative view of the virtually synchronic dynamics of the translation, ...
De Internationale Vereniging voor Neerlandistiek
(2022)
Dutch is an important language, not only in Europe. Beyond Flanders and the Netherlands, there are 200 universities and colleges worldwide where over 15.000 students study Dutch as a language, investigate the language or ...
Tijding en Tendens
(2009)
The central theme of this issue is the singularity of general and comparative literary theory in the Low Countries. How do they combine insights from neighboring linguistic areas, more specifically the dominant French, ...
Beatrijs de wereld in. Vertalingen en bewerkingen van het Middelnederlandse verhaal
(2013)
The research project Beatrijs Internationaal brought together about a hundred literary translators and researchers in the field of historical and modern Dutch literature, translation studies and related disciplines, from ...
The Ideologies of Lived Space in Literary Texts, Ancient and Modern
(2013)
In a brief essay called Des espaces autres (1984) Michel Foucault announced that after the nineteenth century, which was dominated by a historical outlook, the current century might rather be the century of space. His ...
Bakhtin’s Theory of the Literary Chronotope: Reflections, Applications, Perspectives
(2010)
This edited volume is the first scholarly tome exclusively dedicated to Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the literary chronotope. This concept, initially developed in the 1930s and used as a frame of reference throughout Bakhtin’s ...
Negen muzen, tien geboden. Historische en methodologische gevalstudies over de interactie tussen literatuur en ethiek
(2005)
Literature traditionally holds a special place in society. This fact can be ascribed especially to literature’s unique capability to urge its audience and readers to allow a voice other than their own to resound within. ...
Mutsaers en andere dieren
(2023)
Mutsaers en andere dieren is a literary study on the issue of animals in the creative oeuvre by Dutch writer and artist Charlotte Mutsaers. How is an animal perspective portrayed in Mutsaers's art? What cultural meanings ...
Ethiek van de lectuur. Frans Kellendonk en de (h)erkenning van de andersheid
(2012)
To what extent is it possible for a literary text to contribute to the ethical development of its reader? This book tries to provide readers with a nuanced answer to this question, as well as with methodological premises ...
Nederlands in het perspectief van uitspraakverwerving en contrastieve taalkunde
(2011)
Nederlands in het perspectief van uitspraakverwerving en contrastieve taalkunde (“Dutch from the point of view of pronunciation acquisition and contrastive linguistics”) gives an overview of linguistic research carried out ...
Denken over poëzie en vertalen
(2018)
This volume of Lage Landen Studies has a twofold purpose: on the one hand we want to pay attention to the scholarly work on the Dutch author Cees Nooteboom, in particular to his poetry in translation which has hardly ...
Van Eeden tot heden
(2012)
Ranging from Polish inspirations in contemporary authors such as Bernlef, Frank Westerman and Erwin Mortier, over the Central European successes of the now forgotten Jo van Ammers-Küller, to the Bulgarian character Firmin ...
Grensverleggende beelden
(2020)
Crossing borders is a perilous undertaking, as this time of migrations and pandemics teaches us. Also for
language-related cultural goods such as literary works, crossing those borders requires a lot of planning, strategic ...
Sexpert
(2013)
Sexual health in Flanders describes the results of the first representative population-based study on this topic in Flanders (the Northern, Dutch-speaking part of Belgium). A research team of psychologists, sexologists, ...
Hermeneutiek in veelvoud
(2011)
What will be the future role of hermeneutics in literary theory? Can we shape the future of hermeneutics by going back to its tradition and by looking at the way hermeneutics is relevant in other disciplines? The new issue ...
Een ladder tegen de windroos. Nederlands tussen Noord- en Zuid-Europa. Contacten, confrontaties en bemiddelaars
(2016)
In the meeting between Northern and Southern Europe – usually considered separate worlds – language and literature are important mediators. In this volume Dutch is a starting, arrival and meeting point for essays on ...
Het anti-theater van Antonin Artaud. Een onderzoek naar de veralgemeende artistieke transgressie, toegepast op het werk van Romeo Castellucci en de Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio
(2008)
What does it mean to violate the law on a theatrical stage? This is the central question in the following examination of modern theatre, beginning with the avant-garde, but also including the contemporary and iconoclastic ...
Professional Learning in Education
(2016)
Educational quality is at the center of debates worldwide. In all these debates, teachers are considered as the critical actors determining to a large extent the quality of our educational systems. At the same time, doubts ...
Chapter Yutaka
(2023)
Architecture
Huisbeelden in de moderne Nederlandstalige poëzie
(2012)
This book explores images of the house in Dutch-language poetry from the postwar period. On the one hand the archetypical notion of the house has always had an established place in poetry. It is connected to the meaning ...
Les nouvelles voies du comparatisme
(2010)
Which recent methodological innovations have occurred in the field of comparative literature? What are the critical paradigms behind the practices of comparative research today? These questions are the starting point of ...
De spade in de dijk. Waterbeheer en rurale samenleving in de Vlaamse kustvlakte (1280-1580)
(2009)
The Spade in de Dijk is the first synthesis on the organisation of water management in Coastal Flanders during the later Middle Ages. Based on the unique archival evidence produced by local water boards (wateringen), large ...
Vluchtlijnen van de poëzie
(2022)
In Vluchtlijnen van de poëzie, Mettes' experimental poetry and political essayism are the starting point for a creative reading and (re)interpretation of recent poetry history. The book takes the reader from Mettes to ...
Een monument voor het land. Overheidsstatistiek in België, 1795-1870
(2008)
In A monument to the country. Official statistics in Belgium, 1795-1870, Nele Bracke unravels why and how the Belgian state and its predecessors organized and developed an official statistical apparatus in order to collect ...
Un double compromis. Enjeux et débats relatifs à l’enseignement universitaire en Belgique au XIXe siècle
(2006)
This book reveals the history of discussions regarding university education in Belgium, from the abolishment of the old university of Leuven in 1797 to the promulgation of the laws on higher education in 1890 and 1891. ...
In het spoor van Emile Zola. De narratologische code(s) van het Europese naturalisme
(2006)
For the first time since Chevrels seminal monography Le naturalisme: étude d’un mouvement littéraire international (1982), this study presents an encompassing approach to European naturalism. By means of a logical theoretical ...
Tussen twee stoelen, tussen twee vuren
(2018)
The tenth volume of the Lage Landen Studies explores the road of an original Dutch-language book from its original version to the translation that arrives into the hands of a non-native reader. This collection of research ...
A Pure Mind in a Clean Body
(2012)
Buddhist monasteries, in both Ancient India and China, have played a crucial social role, for religious as well as for lay people. They rightfully attract the attention of many scholars, discussing historical backgrounds, ...
Luisterrijk der letteren
(2019)
Luisterrijk der letteren offers an overview of the intensive interfaces between the literary field and radio in the Low Countries. The subsequent chapters treat original radio plays of Walter van den Broeck and Ivo Michiels, ...
Chapter Mediterranean landscapes in emergency
(2023)
Architecture
Chapter Fantastical reality
(2023)
Architecture
Chapter Fantastical reality
(2023)
Architecture
Chapter From visual to multisensory
(2023)
Industrial / commercial art & design
Chapter From visual to multisensory
(2023)
Industrial / commercial art & design
Chapter Mediterranean landscapes in emergency
(2023)
Architecture
Chapter Artificial nature
(2023)
Industrial / commercial art & design
Chapter Artificial nature
(2023)
Industrial / commercial art & design
Chapter The ephemerality of an organic material and its implications
(2023)
Industrial / commercial art & design
Chapter The ephemerality of an organic material and its implications
(2023)
Industrial / commercial art & design
Jan Walravens en het experiment
(2011)
Jan Walravens (1920-1965) played a central role in Flemish literature as he introduced and facilitated literary experiments after the second world war. He was a leading essayist and literary critic, who wrote thousands of ...
Jan Walravens en het experiment
(2011)
Jan Walravens (1920-1965) played a central role in Flemish literature as he introduced and facilitated literary experiments after the second world war. He was a leading essayist and literary critic, who wrote thousands of ...
Chapter Designing for viral infection awareness through PLAYMUTATION
(2023)
Industrial / commercial art & design
Chapter Designing for viral infection awareness through PLAYMUTATION
(2023)
Industrial / commercial art & design
Chapter Food as a form of care
(2023)
Industrial / commercial art & design
Chapter Food as a form of care
(2023)
Industrial / commercial art & design
Chapter Design for transformation. Unlock competencies for coping complexity
(2023)
Industrial / commercial art & design
Chapter Design for transformation. Unlock competencies for coping complexity
(2023)
Industrial / commercial art & design
Chapter The impact of vertical greening on local microclimate
(2023)
Architecture
Chapter The impact of vertical greening on local microclimate
(2023)
Architecture
Minoes, Minnie, Minu en andere katse streken. De internationale receptie van Annie M.G. Schmidts Minoes
(2017)
This volume focuses on the international reception of Annie M.G. Schmidt’s Minoes, the most translated Dutch children’s book. The authors investigate the reception and adaptations in the Netherlands and Flanders, the French ...
Minoes, Minnie, Minu en andere katse streken. De internationale receptie van Annie M.G. Schmidts Minoes
(2017)
This volume focuses on the international reception of Annie M.G. Schmidt’s Minoes, the most translated Dutch children’s book. The authors investigate the reception and adaptations in the Netherlands and Flanders, the French ...
Chapter A novel offloading insole system designed for healthcare
(2023)
Industrial / commercial art & design