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Travel Writing in Dutch and German, 1790-1930
This volume focuses on how travel writing contributed to cultural and intellectual exchange in and between the Dutch- and German-speaking regions from the 1790s to the twentieth-century interwar period. Drawing on a hitherto largely overlooked body of travelers whose work ranges across what is now Germany and Austria, the Netherlands and Dutch-speaking Belgium, the Dutch East Indies and Suriname, the contributors highlight the interrelations between the regional and the global and the role alterity plays in both spheres. They therefore offer a transnational and transcultural perspective on the ways in which the foreign was mediated to audiences back home. By combining a narrative perspective...
Editing the Nation’s Memory
Europe’s nation-states emerged from a complex of nineteenth-century developments in which cultural consciousness-raising played a formative role. The nineteenth-century reflection on Europe’s national identities involved a re-inventory and revalorisation of the vernacular cultural past and, above all, the nation’s literary heritage. Everywhere in Europe, foundational texts (including medieval epics and romances, ancient laws and chronicles) were retrieved from their obscure repositories. In new, printed editions, prepared according to the emerging academic standards of textual scholarship, they were appropriated, contested and canonised as public symbols of the nation’s permanence in history. This often neglected, but crucially important Europe-wide process of ‘editing the nation’s memory’ involved old states and emerging nations, large and small countries, metropolitan and peripheral regions; it straddled politics, the academic professionalization of textual scholarship and of the human sciences, and literary taste. This collection of studies by outstanding specialists offers a comparative synopsis on exemplary cases from all corners of the European continent.
Texts in Multiple Versions
Texts in multiple versions constitute the core problem of textual scholarship. For texts from antiquity and the medieval period, the many versions may be the result of manuscript transmission, requiring editors and readers to discriminate between levels of authority in variant readings produced along the chain of copying. For texts of all periods, and particularly for more modern authors, there may also be multiple authorial versions. These are of particular importance for genetic criticism, as they offer a window on the author's thinking through the developing work. The different contexts in which multiple versions may occur - different languages, different genres, different cultures, rangi...
European Studies
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Superhelden op perkament
Middeleeuwse verhalen zijn nog nooit zo populair geweest. De graal uit de romans rond Koning Artur dook pas nog op in de Da Vinci Code. De onzichtbaar makende kap van de held Siegfried verraste met een onverwacht heroptreden in de Harry Potter-verhalen. Maar wie kent de originele heldendichten nog? Dit boek grijpt terug naar de bron en neemt het Roelandslied, Koning Artur,Walewein, Parzival, Tristan en Isolde, Eneas en de Nibelungen onder de loep. Hoe zitten de verhalen in elkaar? Waar komen ze andaan? Hebben de helden echt bestaan? De auteurs duiken in de intrigerende overleveringsgeschiedenis van de Europese ridderromans. Manuscripten, monumenten, film- en operascènes en fragmenten uit stripverhalen: prachtige illustraties brengen het eeuwenoude erfgoed echt tot leven. Tot slot wordt de lezer meegenomen op een virtuele reis langs monumentale plaatsen uit de verhalen: de Ronde Tafel in Winchester, het graf van Koning Artur in Glastonbury, het sprookjeskasteel Neuschwanstein. Genoeg aanleiding voor een culturele vakantie-uitstap!
Die Rose
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