Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde - Current Issue

Abstract In the field of poetry, Literary Disability Studies remains surprisingly silent. Furthermore, disability studies in general has paid surprisingly little attention to intellectual or cognitive impairments. To fill these gaps, this article concentrates on Dutch poetry about and by people with intellectual disabilities. Closereading three case studies from the past century, this reading demonstrates how poetry reflects the evolvin Read More

Abstract It is generally assumed that accentual verse (heffingsvers), a medieval technique in which each line has a fixed number of stressed syllables and a varying number of weak or unstressed syllables, stopped existing in the Dutch language around the year 1700. This article shows that this is not true: accentual verse exists in modern Dutch-language pop songs (Nederpop). Auditory scanning of the forty most succes Read More

Abstract This article traces the multilingual dimension of ‘Dutch’ poetry. Drawing on insights from the emerging field of Literary Multilingualism, it interrogates the various ways in which multilingualism is used in Dutch poetry from the early twenty-first century. Relating examples taken from five poetry collections of the early twenty-first century to ‘older’ examples of multilingual poetry, it argues that, to some extent, ‘Dutch’ poet Read More

Abstract It is striking how often poetry is referenced in media reports about large language models (LLMs) and in the marketing language of technology companies like OpenAI (‘it can even write poetry!’). These references have a clear rhetorical effect: they contribute to the anthropomorphization of these technologies. This article takes a close look at the poetic production of LLMs (such as ChatGPT), showing Read More

Abstract In recent years, several Dutch poets published poetry collections that actively engage with online culture and politics, and with online feminist culture in particular. Undertaking an in depth reading of two poetry collections that are exemplary of this trend, Het is warm in de hivemind by Maxime Garcia Diaz and De maan schijnt feller in de metaverse by Merel van Slobbe, this article argues that play and playfulness are Read More

Abstract This paper analyses the presence of Sappho in Elly de Waard’s poetry (and especially her collection Furie (1981)) from a perspective informed by queer theory, translation studies, and theories of intertextuality. We aim to demonstrate how De Waard’s dialogue with Sappho challenges – ‘queers’ – binary oppositions between translation and intertextuality or source and target text while disrupting hegemonic, Read More

Abstract The aim of this article is twofold. It tries to assess if and to which extent Dutch language poetry engaged with the Great Acceleration during 1958-1975, an era of substantial growth and transformation of the rural and urban environment. In order to make this assessment, this article presents and evaluates a topical reading methodology, combining a quantitative analysis of 100 poetry volumes by 100 different Read More