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Nederlandse Letterkunde - Volume 28, Issue 3, 2023

Volume 28, Issue 3

Volume 28, Issue 3, 2023

Language: Dutch
  • Artikelen

      • ‘Hoe het voelt om een meisje te zijn’. Representaties van adolescentie in de roman van Eva Coolen

        https://doi.org/10.5117/NEDLET2023.3.001.ACKE
        Abstract

        In Eva Coolen’s novel (2021), adolescence as a stage of life plays an important role. The reader follows two teenage girls, who are on the run from a situation that spiraled out of control as well as from the environment they grew up in. Representations of adolescence/ts in novels influence readers’ ideas about adolescence/ts. The ‘Youth Lens’, coined by Petrone et al. (2014), offers a critical form of textual analysis that examines how adolescence is represented and what role texts play in reinforcing and/ or subverting dominant ideas about adolescence. So far, this approach received limited attention in Dutch literary research, in spite of the fact that the rise of young adult literature underscores the significance of a critical examination of representations of adolescence in (youth) literary texts. In this article, I describe the key precepts of the Youth Lens and use this approach to analyze representations of adolescence in . Furthermore, I will open a space for the use of this approach in Dutch secondary literature teaching.

    • Van oude mannen en de dames die erbij staan. De liefdesopvattingen van de

      https://doi.org/10.5117/NEDLET2023.3.002.HUBO
      Abstract

      The is an adaptation of the Old French in the seemingly love themed -codex. Because love in medieval courtly literature is not a consistent dogma, an examination of the work’s love conception can shed light on both the development of the ideology of love in courtly Middle Dutch literature and the text’s relation to the larger -codex. The traditional relationship between prowess and love seems central, but is socio-politically framed. Love enhances the knights’ prowess, but their main motivations are provided by social obligations. As such, love seems to function as an ideal for the individual to aspire to with the aim to contribute as best as possible to the preservation of the (courtly) society. In light of this, love is portrayed as more unambiguously positive by rejecting its traditional link with suffering. The text’s disinterest in the personal and sensuous aspects of love further reinforces its conception of love as a more abstract ideal. Even traditionally less positive characters, such as the old lover, seem sympathetically portrayed as exemplars of the positive social influence of love.

    • De maskers van Louis Couperus. De in (1925) en (1924)

      https://doi.org/10.5117/NEDLET2023.3.003.SCHO
      Abstract

      By combining the traditional ‘’ concept – which served to understand the relation between the author’s world-view and that of the characters in his fiction (Elliott) – with present-day narratological views on authorship (Walsh) and a sociological analysis of the themes in (fictional and nonfictional) travel literature (Moroz), this article construes a new perspective on . This conceptualization of does not reduce a literary text to mere behaviour: rather, it is a narratological tool that allows us to understand the author as he struggles to write down his impressions, while negotiating with expectations that are formulated by the institutional and discursive conditions governing the literary field. This ‘new’ concept of serves as the starting-point for an analysis of Louis Couperus’ understanding of Japan in his travel books (1925) and (1924).

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