- ISSN: 1384-5829
- E-ISSN: 2352-118X
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oa Van Pantheon naar buitenwereld
Observaties over literatuurgeschiedschrijving in Nederlandse letterkunde en daarbuiten
- Amsterdam University Press
- Source: Nederlandse Letterkunde, Volume 26, Issue 2-3, Dec 2021, p. 176 - 185
Abstract
When the first issue of Nederlandse letterkunde was published, I was in the early stages of my PhD research about Dutch poetry in the 1960s. I wrote about the textual version of the readymade, and the theoretical implications of works of art, and poetry, without inherent value. These works test the limit of what literary history can do – and similar questions were regularly raised in Nederlandse letterkunde: what should the subject of literary history be, and to what extent are the mechanisms of canonization a fact? The surroundings where I did my research were more traditional than Nederlandse letterkunde, something I recognized only in retrospect. In this article I question not only my research, but also – albeit briefly – the way in which canonization plays a part in publishing, and in the Literature Museum (The Hague). The Pantheon exhibition – which was literally a canon with the hundred most important authors of the Dutch language – is being replaced by a view of literary history that leaves more room for marginalized perspectives.
