Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde - Volume 138, Issue 3, 2022

Abstract While it is well known that the lyrical poetry of the Middle Dutch mystical author Hadewijch (c. 1240) is rich in courtly and religious intertext, references to the allegorical textual tradition have long been overlooked. These references become apparent when the poems are read, not just poetically but also from a narratological perspective, with a special eye to point of view, characters and storyline. Such a combin Read More

Abstract Mock epics are a burlesque genre that was mainly popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A distinguishing feature is that the elevated style of the classical epic poem is adapted to a commonplace subject or character (or vice versa). Although still practised in the eighteenth century, the genre has never been researched for the Dutch language area before. This may be due to the fact that the labe Read More