Internationale Neerlandistiek - Volume 59, Issue 1, 2021

Abstract The travel guide series Was nicht im Baedeker steht, published during the interwar period, can be qualified as anti-tourist. The main feature of this critical attitude towards the established Baedekers, which promoted a bourgeois way of travelling, is irony. Zielverfehlung, a deliberate contrariness of what conventional travel guides recommended as the highlights of a journey, is a recurrent theme in the Was Read More

Abstract Foreign language didactics is committed to teach the variety of language that is actually used in everyday life. In this article, we study possibilities of working with authentic German dialogues in teaching contexts of German as a Foreign Language. By focusing on regional and national varieties of German in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, we examine current textbooks that claim to follow a pluricentric appr Read More

Abstract This article investigates new perspectives on ecocriticism through the works of the Flemish poet Dominique De Groen. Taking Timothy Morton’s notion of ‘dark ecology’ as a starting point, it argues that De Groen’s poetry represents a form of anthropocenic writing that exceeds the scope of traditional ecocriticism. Read through the lens of the Anthropocene as both a geological era and an episteme, her writing can s Read More