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The human condition in rural, provincial locations is once again gaining status as a subject of European ‘high fiction’, after several decades in which it was dismissed on aesthetic and ideological grounds. This volume is one of the first attempts to investigate perspectives on local cultures, values and languages both systematically and in a European context. It does so by examining the works of a variety of authors, including Hugo Claus, Llamazares, Bergounioux and Millet, Buffalino and Consolo, and also several Soviet authors, who paint a grim picture of a collectivized – and thus ossified – rurality. How do these themes relate to the ongoing trend of globalization? How do these w...
"Using new material from British, French, Belgian, German, Russian and Czechoslovakian archives, and interviews with the last surviving witnesses of the Dunkirk campaign, Hugh Sebag-Montefiore can at last tell the true story of how the British Army was evacuated from Dunkirk and from France in 1940."--BOOK JACKET.
Bruges is one of Europe's most beautifully preserved medieval towns; its cobbled streets are lined with gabled alms houses and Gothic churches, their distinctive forms reflected in the glassy waters of the canals that flow through the town. But there's more to enjoy than history: the town has classy art galleries, fashionable boutiques, hearty food and cosy bars and cafes. Explore Bruges is part of a brand-new series and is the ideal pocket companion to this historic town: a full-colour guide containing 15 easy-to-follow routes which lead you from the busy main square dominated by its magnificent 14th-century belfry, via leafy streets to fascinating museums and the calm courtyard of the Begu...
Text to Reader seeks to find a critical approach that links a novel's form to its socio-cultural context. Combining elements from Iser's reception aesthetics, speech act theory, and Goffman's frame analysis, this book starts from the assumption that a reader has certain conventional expectations with regard to a novel, and then goes on to examine how violations of these expectations rule the reader's relationship to the novel. The theory sketched in the first chapter is then, in four subsequent chapters, applied to The French Lieutenant's Woman by the English author John Fowles, Letters by the American John Barth, Libro de Manuel by the Argentinean Julio Cortázar, and De Kapellekensbaan by the Flemish novelist Louis-Paul Boon. The particular form each of these novels takes is analyzed as correlative to that novel's communicative function. This book will be of interest to comparatists, students of English and American literature, and the literatures of Latin-America and the Low Countries.
Julien Weverbergh behoort met Angèle Manteau, Louis Paul Boon, Hugo Claus en Paul de Wispelaere tot degenen die de toon aangaven in het Vlaams literaire leven van de tweede helft van de vorige eeuw. Nu hij zich enigszins terzijde van de discoursen en cercles is gaan opstellen, vindt hij het tijd geworden de balans op te maken. Hij schrijft over zijn Antwerpse jeugd, opgroeiend in een armetierig milieu met volkse ouders, die ondanks hun bescheiden afkomst verwoede lezers waren. En over zijn wording als lezer, zijn ontdekking van de literatuur en zijn entree, aanvankelijk als alomtegenwoordig en brutaal randfiguur, in de Vlaamse letteren. Halverwege de jaren zestig ontpopte hij zich onder de ...
Aangevuld met de bibliografie van de friese taal- en literatuurwetenschap.
A major scholarly collection of international research on the reception of James Joyce in Europe
Life Itself is the first book-length study in English of the great Flemish writer Louis Paul Boon. A.M.A. van den Oever begins by questioning the paradox between Boon's international reputation as a significant innovator of the novel, and the peculiarly reductive biographical interpretations regularly uttered by some of his fellow countrymen and contemporaries. She looks for answers in Boon's misinterpreted "primitive" Flemish and analyzes the so-called refined pseudo-primitive style within both the grotesque tradition (Kafka, van Ostaijen, Gogol) and the skeptical, radical tradition of Nietzsche. In addition, she offers fresh insight into Boon's character Boontje, seen by many as a diminutive for the writer himself, outlining the sublime and slightly sinister relation of this quasi-comical character to its mighty creator.