Nederlandse Letterkunde - Volume 21, Issue 3, 2016

Abstract Less and more. And also different? About the version of Die Riddere metter Mouwen in the Lancelot Compilation The Dutch Arthurian romance Die Riddere metter Mouwen (‘The Knight with the Sleeve’), preserved in the Lancelot Compilation, has been adapted to suit this huge cycle. Beyond abridging the story, causing some lack of clarity, the compiler also added several episodes of his own making, causing inc Read More

Abstract Dirk Schelte (1639-1714). The informal sociability and poetics of a rhymer Dirk Schelte was an Amsterdam jeweler who published in 1713 an enormous book of poetry, Rym-werken. The book is more or less an account in rhyme in various genres, such as letters, epithalamic poems or epigrams, of his relations with his family, friends, business contacts and colleagues, and as such a representative and at the same time Read More

Abstract ‘To the defence of the French convert’: the reception of J.-K. Huysmans in De Katholiek Until recently very little was known about the reception in the Netherlands of the French novelist J.-K. Huysmans (1848-1907), an “inexplicable amalgam of a Parisian aesthete and a Dutch painter” as he called himself. When scholars referred to this question, they did so in a very circumstantial way and hence created sever Read More