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Nederlandse letterkunde | 2014

Modellen in de Nederlandse literatuur: De jaren 1900-1920. Een inleiding

Gillis Dorleijn; Pieter Verstraeten; Dirk De Geest

In Dutch literary history, the timespan between 1900 and 1920 has often been conceived of as a period of relative calm and stability in contrast to the preceding fin-de-siecle years and the years following World War I. Recent publications, however, broadening their scope from the canonical literary texts and the major authors to a more comprehensive view on literary culture, have revealed that the first decades of the 20th century saw important changes in the structure of the literary field, alongside (and in close connection to) the emergence of new cultural practices. This special issue of Nederlandse Letterkunde wants to chart some of these changes, ranging from the rise of new genres and new ideas about literature and authorship, to a reorganization of the institutional infrastructure of literature. In the introduction we argue that, to analyze such phenomena, it is fruitful to focus on the development, reinterpretation and circulation of literary and cultural models, since all cultural behavior is model-based, as are cultural artifacts, which might in turn function as models themselves for new practices or products. To illustrate the possibilities of the concept ‘model’ we present a brief case study on the literary interview, a media genre emerging internationally at that time, followed by some general reflections on the ‘model’ approach in literary and cultural studies.


Etudes Germaniques | 2013

Le corps du Christ. Le roman À propos de Dédé et le catholicisme

Pieter Verstraeten; Willy Devos; Stéphanie Vanasten

Hugo Claus’s short novel Omtrent Deedee [With regard to Deedee], which appeared in 1963, can be read in a variety of ways. In general, two slightly antagonistic interpretative models have been dominant so far: whereas the early literary analysis by Julien Weverbergh focuses on the symbolic dimension of the story, a commentator such as Bert Vanheste emphasizes the novel’s connection with contemporary social discussions, such as the debates on the democratization of Catholic faith in the context of Vaticanum II (1962-1965). In this article I want to further develop the latter perspective by reading the book primarily as a commentary on Catholic faith, understood in its institutional as well as its ideological dimensions. In particular, I focus on the kind of priesthood the main character Deedee is embodying, on the relation between the priest Deedee and the young homosexual Claude, who seems to represent an alternative kind of priesthood, and on the process of transubstantiation, which plays a major role in all this. Finally, I relate the motif of transubstantiation to Claus’s conception of meaning and symbolism. It appears that the religious sacrament as well as the signifying process are based on the interaction between the concrete and material on the one hand and the abstract and ideal on the other. In the end, in Omtrent Deedee, both categories are unmasked as mere social constructs, failing to do what they promise: restoring an original, sacral union or wholeness.


Tijdschrift Voor Nederlandse Taal-en Letterkunde | 2008

Middlebrow en modernisme. Een inleiding

E.M.A. van Boven; Koen Rymenants; Mathijs Sanders; Pieter Verstraeten


Tijdschrift Voor Nederlandse Taal-en Letterkunde | 2012

De revanche van de populaire cultuur. Literatuur, nieuwe media en smaak

Ben de Bruyn; Pieter Verstraeten


Tijdschrift Voor Nederlandse Taal-en Letterkunde | 2011

Europese literatuur voor luisteraars verklaard. De radiolezing als vorm van middlebrow-literatuurbeschouwing tijdens het interbellum

Koen Rymenants; Pieter Verstraeten


Internationale Neerlandistiek | 2010

Transnationaal, maar toch neerlandistiek?

Dirk De Geest; Pieter Verstraeten


Archive | 2017

Echte leesboeken : Publieksliteratuur in de twintigste eeuw

Mathijs Sanders; Erica van Boven; Pieter Verstraeten


Echte leesboeken | 2017

Jan Rap en z'n maat van Yvonne Keuls (1977)

Ryanne Keltjens; Erica van Boven; Mathijs Sanders; Pieter Verstraeten


Belphégor. Littérature populaire et culture médiatique | 2017

Literary Lessons. Knowledge and Genre in Dutch Middlebrow Fiction of the Interwar Years

Bram Lambrecht; Pieter Verstraeten; Dirk De Geest


Tijdschrift Voor Nederlandse Taal-en Letterkunde | 2015

Stoelen, manden, stenen. Objecten in de hedendaagse roman

Ben de Bruyn; Pieter Verstraeten

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Dirk De Geest

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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Mathijs Sanders

Radboud University Nijmegen

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Anne Reverseau

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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Bart Van Den Bossche

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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Carmen Van den Bergh

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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Jan Baetens

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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Sarah Bonciarelli

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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Stéphanie Vanasten

Université catholique de Louvain

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