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  1. Mana Māori. The Power of New Zealand’s First Inhabitants
    Author: Wonu Veys, Fanny
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Leiden University Press

    This book takes you on a journey exploring the histories of the country's first Polynesian discoverers, its encounters with Europeans and the subsequent settling by Westerners. Particular attention will be paid to the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman and... more

     

    This book takes you on a journey exploring the histories of the country's first Polynesian discoverers, its encounters with Europeans and the subsequent settling by Westerners. Particular attention will be paid to the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman and the Dutch immigration wave of the 1950s. Through a discussion of the meeting house and meeting grounds, the relationships Maori maintain to the land will be considered. The vital role of the Treaty of Waitangi (1840) and its present-day repercussions will be looked at. Finally the role of taonga or cultural treasures embodying the ancestral identity of a Maori kin group in relation to particular lands and resources will be explained.

     
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    Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: maori ethnography; new zealand; popular science; Meeting house; National Museum of Ethnology (Netherlands); Netherlands; Taonga
  2. Branding Books Across the Ages : Strategies and Key Concepts in Literary Branding
    Contributor: van den Braber, Helleke (Publisher); Dera, Jeroen (Publisher); Joosten, Jos (Publisher); Steenmeijer, Maarten (Publisher)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    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... more

     

    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.

     
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    Contributor: van den Braber, Helleke (Publisher); Dera, Jeroen (Publisher); Joosten, Jos (Publisher); Steenmeijer, Maarten (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789463723916
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    Subjects: Belgium; Netherlands; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; Literature: history & criticism; Sales & marketing
    Other subjects: Branding, Literary Studies, Literary Institutions, Translation Studies, Reception Studies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (425 p.)
  3. The Great Umar Khayyam : A Global Reception of the Rubáiyát
    Author: Seyed-Gohrab, A.A.
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Leiden University Press

    The Rubáiyát by the Persian poet ‘Umar Khayyæm (1048-1131) is used in contemporary Iran as a resistance literature, symbolizing the secularist voice in cultural debates. While Islamic fundamentalists criticize Khayyæm as an atheist and materialist... more

     

    The Rubáiyát by the Persian poet ‘Umar Khayyæm (1048-1131) is used in contemporary Iran as a resistance literature, symbolizing the secularist voice in cultural debates. While Islamic fundamentalists criticize Khayyæm as an atheist and materialist philosopher who questions God’s creation and the promise of reward or punishment in the hereafter, secularist intellectuals see in him an example of a scientist who scrutinizes the mysteries of the world. Others see a spiritual master, a Sufi, who guides people to the truth. This volume collects eighteen essays on the history of the reception of ‘Umar Khayyæm in various literary traditions, exploring how his philosophy of doubt, carpe diem, hedonism, and in vino veritas has inspired generations of poets, novelists, painters, musicians, calligraphers and film-makers. Weinig niet-Europeanen hebben zo’n invloed gehad op de Westerse poëzie als Omar Khayyam. De Perzische wetenschapper en dichter die leefde van 1048 tot 1131 kreeg cultstatus na de vertaling van zijn gedichten in de negentiende eeuw. In 1859 vertaalde Edward FitzGerald Khayyams verzameling kwatrijnen, de “Rubáiyát” geheten in het Engels. Daarna werden ze vanuit het Engels naar vele andere talen vertaald en herdicht.In het hedendaags Iran wordt Khayyam gezien als een stem in het verzet tegen de religieuze staat; hij staat symbool voor de secularisten in culturele debatten. In het westen wordt hij vooral geassocieerd met spiritualiteit en diepzinnige levenswijsheden die verscholen zijn in ogenschijnlijk eenvoudige kwatrijnen. In het boek hebben achttien wetenschappers uit verschillende literaire tradities de receptie van Khayyam onderzocht, waarbij zij aandacht besteden aan zijn filosofie van twijfel, carpe diem, hedonisme, en in vino veritas.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9789087281571
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    Subjects: Persian (Farsi); Poetry by individual poets; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
    Other subjects: linguïstiek; linguistics; Netherlands; Persian language; Persian literature; Persians; Quatrain
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (288 p.)
  4. Poems of Guido Gezelle: A Bilingual Anthology
    Contributor: Vincent, Paul (Publisher)
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  UCL Press

    The Bruges-born poet-priest Guido Gezelle (1830–1899) is generally considered one of the masters of nineteenth-century European lyric poetry. At the end of his life and in the first two decades of the twentieth century, Gezelle was hailed by the... more

     

    The Bruges-born poet-priest Guido Gezelle (1830–1899) is generally considered one of the masters of nineteenth-century European lyric poetry. At the end of his life and in the first two decades of the twentieth century, Gezelle was hailed by the avant-garde as the founder of modernFlemish poetry. His unique voice was belatedly recognised in the Netherlandsand often compared with his English contemporary Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889).In this bilingual anthology, award-winning translator Paul Vincent selects a representative picture of Gezelle’s output, from devotional through narrative, to celebratory and expressionistic. Gezelle’s favourite themes are childhood, the Flemish landscape, friendship, nature, religion and the Flemish vernacular, and his apparently simple poems conceal a sophisticated prosody and a dialogue with spiritual and literary tradition.

     
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    Contributor: Vincent, Paul (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Europe; Belgium; Luxembourg; Netherlands; English; Dutch; c 1800 to c 1900; Poetry
    Other subjects: european lyric poetry; low countries; guido gezelle; nature; Rhyme; Tim Van Eyken
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (252 p.)
  5. Painting and Publishing as Cultural Industries
    Author: Rasterhoff, Clara
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    The Dutch Republic was a cultural powerhouse in the modern era, producing lasting masterpieces in painting and publishing-and in the process transforming those fields from modest trades to booming industries. This book asks the question of how such a... more

     

    The Dutch Republic was a cultural powerhouse in the modern era, producing lasting masterpieces in painting and publishing-and in the process transforming those fields from modest trades to booming industries. This book asks the question of how such a small nation could become such a major player in those fields. Claartje Rasterhoff shows how industrial organisations played a role in shaping patterns of growth and innovations. As early modern Dutch cultural industries were concentrated geographically, highly networked, and institutionally embedded, they were able to reduce uncertainty in the marketplace and stimulate the commercial and creative potential of painters and publishers-though those successes eventually came up against the limits of a saturated domestic market and an aversion to risk on the part of producers that ultimately brought an end to the boom.

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9789089647023
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    Subjects: History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800
    Other subjects: economic history; economic geography; dutch golden age; art market; publishing; economic history; economic geography; dutch golden age; art market; publishing; Amsterdam; Haarlem; Leiden; Netherlands
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (352 p.)
  6. Doing the Right Thing : A Value Based Economy
    Author: Klamer, Arjo
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Ubiquity Press

    "This book is for all those who are seeking a human perspective on economic and organizational processes. It lays the foundations for a value based approach to the economy. The key questions are: “What is important to you or your organization?” “What... more

     

    "This book is for all those who are seeking a human perspective on economic and organizational processes. It lays the foundations for a value based approach to the economy. The key questions are: “What is important to you or your organization?” “What is this action or that organization good for?”

    The book is directed at the prevalence of instrumentalist thinking in the current economy and responds to the calls for another economy.

    Another economy demands another economics. The value based approach is another economics; it focuses on values and on the most important goods such as families, homes, communities, knowledge, and art. It places economic processes in their cultural context.

    What does it take to do the right thing, as a person, as an organization, as a society? What is the good to strive for? This book gives directions for the answers.

    The value based approach restores the ancient idea that quality of life and of society is what the economy is all about. It advocates shifting the focus from quantities (“how much?”) to qualities (“what is important?”).

     
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  7. Western Arabia in the Leiden Collections. Traces of a Colourful Past
    Author: Mols, Luitgard; Vrolijk, Arnoud
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Leiden University Press

    "In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Dutch diplomats, scholars and travellers assembled unique collections in Jeddah, Mecca and Medina. The Dutch presence in Arabia, where they established a consulate in Jeddah, was intimately... more

     

    "In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Dutch diplomats, scholars and travellers assembled unique collections in Jeddah, Mecca and Medina. The Dutch presence in Arabia, where they established a consulate in Jeddah, was intimately connected with the supervision of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca from the Netherlands East Indies, present-day Indonesia. Notable guests at this consulate included the formidable Dutch Islamicist Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, visiting Arabia in 1884-1885. With the invaluable help of local Muslims, Dutch collectors tried to capture the essence of what they regarded as an ‘authentic’ Oriental culture in a period when Arabia was already looking towards modernity. These extensive collections are now preserved at the Leiden Museum of Ethnology and Leiden University Libaries. Together, they allow a glimpse into a colourful and vibrant society."

     
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  8. The Universal Art of Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627-1678) : Painter, Writer, and Courtier
    Contributor: Weststeijn, Thijs (Publisher)
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    The art of Samuel van Hoogstraten Samuel van Hoogstraten was meer dan een succesvol leerling van Rembrandt en een veelzijdig schilder. Door zijn experimenten met optische illusies zocht hij aansluiting bij de natuurwetenschap van zijn tijd. Bovendien... more

     

    The art of Samuel van Hoogstraten Samuel van Hoogstraten was meer dan een succesvol leerling van Rembrandt en een veelzijdig schilder. Door zijn experimenten met optische illusies zocht hij aansluiting bij de natuurwetenschap van zijn tijd. Bovendien schreef hij enkele van de eerste Nederlandse romans en toneelstukken, en een schildertraktaat. Hij reisde naar Rome, Wenen en Londen, en introduceerde de Europese hofcultuur in de Lage Landen. In dit boek onderzoeken verschillende specialisten Van Hoogstratens werk, dat op unieke wijze aantoont hoe in de Nederlandse Gouden Eeuw schilderkunst, literatuur en wetenschap verweven waren. Hierbij gaat bijzondere aandacht uit naar Van Hoogstratens kunsttheorie en zijn literaire teksten, de rol van schilderijen in zijn sociale netwerk, zijn contacten in Italië en Engeland en natuurlijk de kunst van zijn leermeester, Rembrandt. Door nog onbekende werken voor het voetlicht te brengen en nieuwe verbanden te leggen tussen woord en beeld, levert dit boek een belangrijke bijdrage aan ons begrip van Van Hoogstratens ‘universele kunst’ in het bredere kader van de vroegmoderne cultuurgeschiedenis.

     
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    Contributor: Weststeijn, Thijs (Publisher)
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
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    Subjects: History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800
    Other subjects: art; art; Amsterdam; Arnold Houbraken; Dirk van Hoogstraten; Dordrecht; Netherlands; Rembrandt; Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten
  9. Installation Art and the Museum : Presentation and Conservation of Changing Artworks
    Author: van Saaze, Vivian
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    Installation art has become mainstream in artistic practices. However, acquiring and displaying such artworks implies that curators and conservators are challenged to deal with obsolete technologies, ephemeral materials and other issues concerning... more

     

    Installation art has become mainstream in artistic practices. However, acquiring and displaying such artworks implies that curators and conservators are challenged to deal with obsolete technologies, ephemeral materials and other issues concerning care and management of these artworks. By analysing three in-depth case studies, the author sheds new light on the key concepts of traditional conservation (authenticity, artist’s intention, and the notion of ownership) while exploring how these concepts apply in contemporary art conservation. Based on original empirical research and cross-case analysis, this ground-breaking study offers a re-examination of traditional conservation values and ethics, and argues for a reassessment of the role of the conservator of contemporary art. De laatste decennia hebben veel musea installatiekunstwerken aangekocht. Conservatoren en restauratoren worden bij het verwerven en tonen van deze werken echter geconfronteerd met praktische en theoretische problemen. Het procesmatige of ruimte-afhankelijke karakter, het gebruik van vergankelijke materialen en ook de snelle veroudering van gebruikte mediatechnologieën als film en video roepen vragen op rond het beheer en behoud van deze werken. Hoe gaan musea voor hedendaagse kunst om met deze veranderlijke kunstwerken? Aan de hand van casestudies in diverse Europese musea laat de auteur zien dat gangbare conserveringsrichtlijnen en sleutelbegrippen als authenticiteit en kunstenaarsintentie gebaseerd zijn op een traditionele kunstopvatting, die uitgaat van een onveranderlijk object. Door de analyse van museale praktijken wordt een nieuw begrip van conservering ontwikkeld dat meer recht doet aan de veranderlijkheid van installaties en aan de praktijken die daarmee samenhangen.

     
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  10. Literatuurwetenschap en uitgeverijonderzoek
    Author: Absillis, Kevin; Humbeeck, Kris
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Academia Press, Gent

    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 constantly reminded us that... more

     

    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 constantly reminded us that literary theory does not study ‘autonomous artefacts’, but texts which are mediated and influenced by various ‘institutions’. But what are the implications? The contributions to this issue of Cahier voor Literatuurwetenschap confront the results of recent and ongoing studies about publishing with the disciplinary idiosyncrasies of general and comparative literature. They not only demonstrate the rich diversity which is typical of this branch of literary studies as far as its method, subject matter and theoretical framework is concerned. They also evaluate acquired ideas and, above all, anticipate new challenges.

     
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    Language: Dutch; Dutch
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Belgium; Netherlands; Dutch; Flemish; 20th century; 21st century; For emergent readers (adult); Literary theory
    Other subjects: book history; sociology of literature; literary theory
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (127 p.)
  11. Imagining Global Amsterdam : History, Culture, and Geography in a World City
    Author: Waard, Marco de
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    Imagining Global Amsterdam brings together new essays on the image of Amsterdam as articulated in film, literature, art, and urban discourse, considered within the context of globalization and its impact on urban culture. Subjects include:... more

     

    Imagining Global Amsterdam brings together new essays on the image of Amsterdam as articulated in film, literature, art, and urban discourse, considered within the context of globalization and its impact on urban culture. Subjects include: Amsterdam’s place in global cultural memory; expressions of global consciousness in Amsterdam in the ‘Golden Age’; articulations of Amsterdam as a tolerant, multicultural, and permissive ‘global village’; and globalization’s impact ‘on the ground’ through city branding, the cultural heritage industry, and cultural production in the city. Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, and united by a broad humanities approach, this collection forms a multifaceted inquiry into the dynamic relationship between Amsterdam, globalization, and the urban imaginary. Imagining Global Amsterdam gaat over het beeld van Amsterdam in film, literatuur, visuele kunst en in het moderne stedelijke discours, in het bijzonder in de context van de mondialisering. De essays gaan onder andere dieper in op Amsterdam als een lieu de mémoire van de vroeg-moderne wereldhandel. Wat betekent deze herinnering in de hedendaagse cultuur? Waarom verwijzen zo veel contemporaine films en romans naar dit verleden terug? Ook het (inter)nationale imago van Amsterdam als een multicultureel en ultra-tolerant ‘global village’ komt aan bod. Waarom is dit beeld zo persistent, en hoe heeft het zich in de loop van de laatste decennia ontwikkeld? Tot slot wordt ingegaan op de vraag hoe mondialiseringsprocessen ingrijpen in de stadscultuur, zoals in het prostitutiegebied op de Wallen en via de erfgoedindustrie. Hoe manifesteert de mondialisering zich in de stad, en welke rol speelt beeldvorming daarbij? Deze bundel vormt een rijk geschakeerd onderzoek naar de relatie tussen Amsterdam, mondialisering en stedelijke beeldvorming.

     

    Marco de Waard is als docent literatuurwetenschap verbonden aan het Amsterdam University College.

     
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    ISBN: 9789089643674
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    Subjects: Cultural studies; Media studies
    Other subjects: amsterdam; history; Globalization; Netherlands; Prostitution; Rembrandt
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (320 p.)
  12. Ieder zijn eigen Arnon Grunberg. Vertaling, promotie en receptie in Italië, Spanje, Catalonië, Portugal en Roemenië
    Author: Ross, Dolores; Pos, Arie; Mertens, Marleen
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Academia Press, Gent

    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, promotion and reception of... more

     

    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, promotion and reception of contemporary Dutch author Arnon Grunberg in five Romance languages between 1996 and 2009. This interdisciplinary approach, which focuses on the crossroads of language, literature and culture, as well as on aspects of the sociologies of literature and translation, is combined with views from translation studies, comparative literature, and bibliology in order to build bridges between theory and practice.

    The first part is devoted to the seldom-heard perspective of the translator and dissects the circumstances in which works by Arnon Grunberg – and by his heteronym Marek van der Jagt – are translated, promoted and received in five Romance languages. The function and ‘visual translation’ of book covers are also analyzed. Notwithstanding the relative homogeneity of the languages, their cultural background and geographical location, remarkable differences come to light. The first part rounds off by looking at the promotional possibilities of writer’s tours and translation workshops in the target countries.

     
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    Language: Dutch; Dutch
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Netherlands; Dutch; c 1990 to c 2000; c 2000 to c 2010; For emergent readers (adult); Literary studies: from c 1900 -
    Other subjects: arnon grunberg; translation; reception; romance languages; dutch literature; promotion
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (267 p.)
  13. Hermeneutiek in veelvoud
    Author: Bernaerts, Lars; Pieters, Jürgen
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Academia Press, Gent

    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 of Cahier voor... more

     

    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 of Cahier voor Literatuurwetenschap has two objectives. First, we wish to study the role of hermeneutics in other disciplines, such as the philosophy of history, theology, and the cognitive sciences. It will be clear that literary theory benefits from this interdisciplinary exercise. Second, we will have a closer look at the hermeneutical tradition in literary theory. Important chapters from the history of hermeneutics (e.g., Schleiermacher, Heidegger, Iser) are revisited and its influence in recent theoretical developments is considered.

     
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    Language: Dutch; Dutch
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    Subjects: Belgium; Netherlands; Dutch; Flemish; 20th century; 21st century; For emergent readers (adult); Literary theory
    Other subjects: literary theory; hermeneutics
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (164 p.)
  14. Digital Passages: Migrant Youth 2.0. Diaspora, Gender and Youth Cultural Intersections
    Author: Leurs, Koen
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    Increasingly, young people live online, with the vast majority of their social and cultural interactions conducted through means other than face-to-face conversation. How does this transition impact the ways in which young migrants understand,... more

     

    Increasingly, young people live online, with the vast majority of their social and cultural interactions conducted through means other than face-to-face conversation. How does this transition impact the ways in which young migrants understand, negotiate, and perform identity? That's the question taken up by Digital Passages: Migrant Youth 2.0, a ground-breaking analysis of the ways that youth culture online interacts with issues of diaspora, gender, and belonging. Drawing on surveys, in-depth interviews, and ethnography, Koen Leurs builds an interdisciplinary portrait of online youth culture and the spaces it opens up for migrant youth to negotiate power relations and to promote intercultural understanding.

     
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    ISBN: 9789089646408
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    Subjects: Media studies
    Other subjects: youth culture; transnationalism; internet; diaspora; gender; Dutch language; Facebook; Hyves; Islam; Moroccan-Dutch; Morocco; MSN; Netherlands; YouTube
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (324 p.)
  15. Literary Cultures and Public Opinion in the Low Countries, 1450-1650
    Author: Bloemendal, Jan; van Dixhoorn, Arjan; Strietman, Elsa
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden-Boston

    In the early modern Low Countries, literary culture functioned on several levels simultaneously: it provided learning, pleasure, and entertainment while also shaping public debate. From a ditty in Dutch sung in the streets to a funeral poem in Latin... more

     

    In the early modern Low Countries, literary culture functioned on several levels simultaneously: it provided learning, pleasure, and entertainment while also shaping public debate. From a ditty in Dutch sung in the streets to a funeral poem in Latin composed to be read for or by intimate friends, from a play performed for a prince to a comedy written for pupils – literary texts and performances often dealt with highly controversial topics of religion or politics, on a local or national, but also on a supranational scale. This volume sets out to analyse the role and function of literary culture in the formation of early modern public opinion, and proposes ways in which a modern scholar might approach early modern works of literature and other traces of literary culture to explore early modern public opinion making. The cases presented in this volume bring the Dutch and Latin literary cultures of the Low Countries in the focus of international debates on the history of public opinion.

     
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  16. Catalogue of Turkish Manuscripts in the Library of Leiden University and Other Collections in the Netherlands. Minor Collections.
    Author: Schmidt, Jan
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden - Boston

    From as early as the 1600s, Dutch scholars and scholarship have displayed a keen interest in the studies of the Islamic world. Over the centuries, they have collected a wealth of source texts in various languages, Turkish texts being prominent among... more

     

    From as early as the 1600s, Dutch scholars and scholarship have displayed a keen interest in the studies of the Islamic world. Over the centuries, they have collected a wealth of source texts in various languages, Turkish texts being prominent among them. The present catalogue is the fourth and final volume in a series that covers the Turkish manuscripts preserved in public libraries and museums in the Netherlands. The volume gives a detailed description of Turkish manuscripts in minor Dutch collections, found in libraries and museums in Amsterdam, Groningen, The Hague, Leiden, Rotterdam and Utrecht, which hitherto have received little or no attention.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789004221918
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    Subjects: Turkey; Bibliographies, catalogues; Middle Eastern history; History of ideas
    Other subjects: literature; islam; turkey; history; ottoman empire; book painting; Amsterdam; Arabic; Colophon (publishing); Istanbul; Izmir; Leiden; Manuscript; Netherlands
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (xxii, 410 p.)
  17. Van Eeden tot heden : Literaire dwarsverbanden tussen Midden-Europa en de Lage Landen
    Author: Heuckelom Van, Kris; Bruyn De, Dieter; Strycker De, Carl
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Academia Press, Gent

    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 Debeljanov in The Sorrow of... more

     

    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 Debeljanov in The Sorrow of Belgium: with its focus on the various interrelations between the contemporary literature of the Low countries and the so-called smaller literary cultures located between the German and the Russian language areas, the volume Van Eeden tot heden offers a multi-faceted perspective on a hitherto barely explored topic in twentieth-century European literature. Due to the academic background of the contributing authors the emphasis is on Polish, Hungarian and Czech case studies, though the Balkans are also being dealt with – albeit less prominently. Whereas some contributions search for contacts, links and influences between literatures and literators, some other chapters set up textual encounters in which authors and their works are compared from a thematic, poetic, stylistic or generic angle. Apart from these comparative endeavors, another group of contributors offer reception analysis regarding the overall topic. In the last part of the volume the focus is on issues of (national) representation and the discursive strategies that are used for it.

     
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  18. Ethiek van de lectuur. Frans Kellendonk en de (h)erkenning van de andersheid
    Author: Sergier, Matthieu
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Academia Press, Gent

    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 to bring to light the ethical... more

     

    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 to bring to light the ethical effects of a literary text. The novels of the Dutch author Frans Kellendonk (1951-1990) offer insightful contexts and questions related to this issue. Kellendonk is one of the most controversial Dutch writers of the end of the twentieth century. Today, he is mainly considered as a kind of prophet that advocated a certain scepticism towards a multicultural society. Kellendonk’s novels systematically put into question one-way interpretations of their works. They invite readers to find other interpretations, putting into question the simplifying conceptual framework that has shaped the author’s posture until now. They also lay the foundations for an ethics of reading that relies on the very diegetic world to which the reader can adjust his/her own reading. This ethics is more specifically an invitation to recognize the undecidability that every reading entails.

     
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    Language: Dutch; Dutch
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Netherlands; Dutch; c 1970 to c 1980; c 2000 to c 2010; For emergent readers (adult); Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
    Other subjects: postmodernism; other(ness); frans kellendonk; dutch literature
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (260 p.)
  19. Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film
    Author: Verstraten, Peter
    Published: 20160101
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam

    If Dutch cinema is examined in academic studies, the focus is usually on pre-war films or on documentaries, but the post-war fiction film has been sporadically addressed. Many popular box-office successes have been steeped in jokes on parochial... more

     

    If Dutch cinema is examined in academic studies, the focus is usually on pre-war films or on documentaries, but the post-war fiction film has been sporadically addressed. Many popular box-office successes have been steeped in jokes on parochial conflicts, vulgar behavior and/or on sexual display, towards which Dutch people have often felt ambivalent. At the same time, something like a 'Hollandse school', a term first coined in the 1980s, has manifested itself more firmly, with the work of Alex van Warmerdam, pervaded in deadpan irony as its biggest eye-catcher. Using seminal theories of humor and irony as an angle, this study scrutinizes a great number of Dutch films on the basis of categories such as low-class comedies; neurotic romances; deliberate camp; cosmic irony, or grotesque satire. Hence, Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film makes surprising connections between films from various decades: Flodder and New Kids Turbo; Spetters and Simon; Rent a Friend and Ober;

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789089649430; 9789048528370
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: Media & Communications; Irony; Netherlands
  20. Watch and Learn : Rhetorical Devices in Classroom Films after 1940
    Author: Masson, Eef
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    Since the late 1990s, there has been a marked increase in academic interest in what are sometimes called 'utility films', intended for purposes of information, training, teaching or advertising. Although such research was long overdue, the current... more

     

    Since the late 1990s, there has been a marked increase in academic interest in what are sometimes called 'utility films', intended for purposes of information, training, teaching or advertising. Although such research was long overdue, the current academic output tends to be restricted in scope, paying little attention to the films' textual features: the means they deploy in defending their informational, educational or commercial arguments. In the absence of such studies, the image survives of very 'formulaic' genres. This book seeks to modify this picture, and suggests a methodology that helps to foreground the films' rhetorical diversity. Taking her departure from a historic collection of Dutch classroom films, Masson proposes an approach that considers an audio-visual text as part of a so-called dispositif: the set-up of technology, text and viewing situation that is relevant to the specific corpus under scrutiny. Sinds de late jaren negentig is er een toenemende academische belangstelling voor zogenoemde 'gebruiksfilms': films die bedoeld zijn om te informeren, te trainen of onderwijzen, of te overtuigen van het nut van een service of product. Onderzoek richtte zich tot nu toe vooral op de productie- of distributiegeschiedenis van dergelijke films, of hun pedagogische effectiviteit. Minder aandacht is er voor hun tekstuele dimensie: de middelen die ze inzetten ter onderbouwing van hun informatieve, educatieve of commerciële argument. Intussen hebben gebruiksfilms echter nog steeds het imago van erg 'formulaire' genres. Eef Masson nuanceert dit beeld in haar boek, en stelt een methodologie voor die de aandacht vestigt op de retorische diversiteit van deze films.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Film, TV & radio
    Other subjects: motion pictures; film; Didacticism; Netherlands; Pedagogy; Rhetoric
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (372 p.)
  21. Juigchen in den adel der menschelijke natuur. Het verhevene in de Nederlanden (1770-1830)
    Author: Christophe, Madelein
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Academia Press, Gent

    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, after the feeling of the... more

     

    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, after the feeling of the sublime. In the eighteenth century the sublime became the exciting alternative to the beautiful. The concept has ancient roots, but branches out into French, British, German, and Dutch cultures. Stemming originally from rhetoric, in the course of the eighteenth century it became an aesthetic, philosophical and literary concept. In this study the history of the sublime is told for the first time in Dutch. This book focuses on Dutch contributions on the sublime, in the light of the international history of the concept of the sublime. From the earliest translations to the original ideas of Johannes Kinker and Willem Bilderdijk: the Dutch sublime reflects both the entwinement with the European Enlightenment and the specific nature of Dutch culture in the long eighteenth century. Een storm op zee, overhangende kliffen, nachtelijke vulkaanuitbarstingen, dreigende donderwolken boven een woest berglandschap: al deze verschijnselen boezemen tegelijk angst en genot, ontzetting en fascinatie in. We noemen ze subliem, naar het verheven gevoel dat ze oproepen. Het sublieme gold in de achttiende eeuw als het spannende alternatief voor het schone. Het begrip heeft antieke wortels, maar ook Franse, Engelse, Duitse, en Nederlandse vertakkingen. Oorspronkelijk een begrip uit de retorica groeide het in de achttiende eeuw uit tot een esthetisch, filosofisch en literair concept. In deze studie wordt voor het eerst de geschiedenis van het verhevene in het Nederlands verteld. Centraal in dit boek staan een aantal Nederlandse bijdragen over het verhevene, die hier worden gelezen in het kader van de internationale begripsgeschiedenis van het sublieme. Van de vroegste vertalingen tot de eigenzinnige ideeën van Johannes Kinker en Willem Bilderdijk: in het Nederlandse verhevene wordt zowel de verbondenheid met de Europese Verlichting als het bijzondere van de eigen cultuur in de lange achttiende eeuw weerspiegeld.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: Dutch; Dutch
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Belgium; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; Netherlands; Dutch; Flemish; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; For emergent readers (adult); Literary theory; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
    Other subjects: eighteenth century; the sublime; low countries
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (411 p.)
  22. Tijding en Tendens. Literatuurwetenschap in de Nederlanden
    Author: Bru, Sascha; Masschelein, Anneleen
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Academia Press, Gent

    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, English and German traditions?... more

     

    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, English and German traditions? In what branches were and are Flemish and Dutch literary theorists specifically strong or innovative? Which theorists and critics were influential? The questions addressed here are meant to instigate a debate on the future of general and comparative literary theory in the Low countries. The issue consists of two parts: ‘The Text and its Limits’ focuses on intra-textual models and criticism, ‘Limits in Context’ looks at the impact and shape of trends and schools of literary studies in the Low Countries.

     
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    Language: Dutch; Dutch
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Belgium; Netherlands; Dutch; Flemish; 20th century; 21st century; For emergent readers (adult); Literary theory
    Other subjects: comparative literature; literary theory; low countries
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (157 p.)
  23. Huisbeelden in de moderne Nederlandstalige poëzie
    Author: Kalla, Irena Barbara
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Academia Press

    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 of house as a building, but... more

     

    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 of house as a building, but even more so as an imaginative house or a home. On the other hand the house is a rich metaphorical concept that is often used for expressing poetical ideas. In a historical survey of modern Dutch-language poetry different images of the house are presented. The overview shows that the choice of certain metaphorical concepts is connected to literary and extra literary contexts, and to the poetical ideas of poets. Conceptual integration – blending theory – is used throughout this book as a theoretical frame. From this perspective poems are regarded as a complex blend, a network of connections which are constructed during the reading and interpreting processes. Finally, the book shows how metaphorical blends are integrated in concrete poems and which kind of house images result from this process.

     
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    Language: Dutch; Dutch
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    Subjects: Belgium; Netherlands; Dutch; 20th century; 21st century; For emergent readers (adult); Literary studies: poetry & poets
    Other subjects: imagery; the netherlands; poetry; house; flanders
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (381 p.)
  24. How safe is eating chicken?
    Author: Romano, Donato; Stefani, Gianluca
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  Firenze University Press

    Consumers trust is a key factor in dealing with rising concerns about food safety and food quality, but only few studies have dealt with consumer attitudes and none of them has tried to model the process of consumer response. This book reports the... more

     

    Consumers trust is a key factor in dealing with rising concerns about food safety and food quality, but only few studies have dealt with consumer attitudes and none of them has tried to model the process of consumer response. This book reports the main findings of an european project aimed at analysing trust along the food chain and its relationship with food risk communication. The papers collected investigate the mechanisms that determine the social diffusion of trust, examining the interplay of the psychological, sociological and economic factors; and analyze the impact of the food risk communication policies on consumers and producers and on the society as a whole.

     
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  25. Albert Eckhouts "gemalte Kolonie"
    Bild- und Wissensproduktion über Niederländisch-Brasilien um 1640
    Author: Daum, Denise
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Jonas, Marburg

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: German
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9783894454180
    RVK Categories: LH 60220 ; LI 99999 ; MS 9500
    DDC Categories: 700
    Subjects: Indians in art; Indians of South America; Indians of South America; Ethnology in art; Art, European; Netherlands
    Scope: 198 S., Ill., 245 mm x 170 mm
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    Literaturverz. S. 183 - 197