Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture
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Language
English
ISBN
978-1-911307-79-2
Cover
Half-title
Series information
Title page
Copyright information
Preface to the new edition
Table of contents
Introduction
Part I The uses of myth and history
1 The uses of myth and history in the ideological politics of the Dutch Golden Age
2 The past in a foreign country: Patriotic history and New World geography in the Dutch Republic, c. 1600–1648
3 A noble courtier and a gentleman warrior: Some aspects of the creation of the Spinola image
4 The cult of the seventeenth-century Dutch naval heroes: Critical appropriations of a popular patriotic tradition
The first critical appropriation: The invention of the cult
The second critical appropriation: The cult as patriotic propaganda
The consequences of the Hein monument: Subsequent appropriations of the cult
The third critical appropriation: the cult as legend
The consequences of the Patriotten appropriation: The veneration of Speyk
5 Patriotism in Dutch literature (c. 1650–c. 1750)
6 Groen van Prinsterer’s interpretation of the French Revolution and the rise of ‘pillars’ in Dutch society
Biographical sketch
From interpretation to action
Anti-modern, postmodern and pre-modern
Twentieth-century reception
7 Memories and identities in conflict: The myth concerning the battle of Courtrai (1302) in nineteenth-century Belgium
Introduction
The story of the Golden Spurs as a national myth
The story of the Golden Spurs as a local myth
The story of the Golden Spurs as a Flemish myth
The battle of 1302 between the ideological camps
Conclusion
8 The concept of nationality in nineteenth-century Flemish theatre discourse: Some preliminary remarks
Part II The past as illumination of cultural context
9 Sinte Lorts bewaer u. Sinte Lorts gespaer u! Paradox as the key to a ‘new morality’ in a late medieval text
The church and the state
The social climate
Satire, parody, irony and allegory
Sot and marot
The characters as instruments of class criticism
10 The Bible in modern Dutch fiction
11 The antiquity of the Dutch language: Renaissance theories on the language of Paradise
The antiquity of the Dutch language
The ideal language
Becanus and Heidanus
12 Maarten van Heemskerck’s use of literary sources from antiquity for his Wonders of the World series of 1572
13 The legacy of Hegel’s and Jean Paul’s aesthetics: The idyllic in seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting
Part III Historiography in focus
14 The rhetoric of narrative historiography
15 The disciplinization of historiography in nineteenth-century Friesland and the simultaneous radicalization of nationalist ...
16 The unimportance of writing well: Eighteenth-century Belgian historians on the problem of style of history
17 The apostle of a wooden Christ: P. N. van Eyck and the journal Leiding
18 Menno ter Braak in Dutch literature: Object and subject of image-building
Literary institutions and the key position of literary criticism
Menno ter Braak as a literary critic
Concluding remarks
19 The reviled and the revered: Preliminary notes on the reappraisal of canonized literary texts
Introduction
Reading and rereading
Hans die Skipper (1928) by D. F. Malherbe
Somer (1935) by C. M. van den Heerver
Boplaas (1938) by Boerneef
Conclusion
20 Postmodern Dutch literature: Renewal or tradition?
Notes
Preface
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
List of contributors
Index
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