Internationale Neerlandistiek - Volume 51, Issue 3, 2013

The concept of ‘irony’ is important in the oeuvre of Harry Mulisch. His selfpresentation was often labelled ‘arrogant’ or ‘vainglorious’, but Mulisch himself referred to it as a form of ‘self-irony’. In his dispute with Gerard van het Reve in the first half of the 1970s, Mulisch rejected Van het Reve’s irony. To illustrate his complaints, Mulisch referred to Thomas Mann as a ‘true ironist’, as opposed to the ‘flat ironist’ Van het Reve. Alrea Read More

This article discusses the significance of the life and work of Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) in De keisnijder van Fichtenwald (The stone cutter of Fichtenwald; 1976) by Louis Ferron (1942-2005). In this historical novel, which is set in a fictitious Nazi concentration camp, the prisoners perform two plays. In the first, the last hours and joined suicide of Kleist and his beloved Henriette Vogel are brought on stage. In the second, the Read More

Dutch is one of the most well-studied living languages; research on it has had a major, and continuing, impact on the development of formal linguistic theory, and it plays an important role in various other types of linguistic research. It is therefore unfortunate that there is no recent comprehensive scientifically based description of the grammar of Dutch that is accessible to a wider international audience. The series Read More

De literatuurstudie heeft steeds geprofiteerd van de wisselwerking met andere wetenschappen. In het begin – de tijd van formalisten en structuralisten – was het vooral de linguïstiek die voor inspiratie zorgde; daarna waren onder meer de psychoanalyse, de sociologie en de filosofie richtinggevende partners. Door deze niet-literaire, soms zelfs niet-tekstgerichte disciplines kwam de studie van het literaire-werk-op-zich Read More