Vantage Points Festschrift for Johan P. Snapper

by Spahr, Blake Lee; Shannon, Thomas F.; Akker, Van Den Wiljan

• ISBN13: 9780761804215
• ISBN10: 0761804218
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-10-10
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

Vantage Points is a collection of essays concerning approaches to Dutch and Flemish literature, both present and past. They are offered by distinguished American and European colleagues in honor of Johan P. Snapper of the University of California at Berkeley on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. This volume represents an outstanding cross-section of current research on the literature, art, and culture of the Low Countries (Netherlands and Belgium). The articles cover a range of topics from the purely literary to broader artistic, sociocultural, and philosophical questions. Dutch and Flemish poetry, from the seventeenth century epic through the classical period and on to symbolist, modern, and postmodern poetry in the twentieth century is particularly well represented, as is prose fiction from eighteenth century spectators to the modern Dutch colonial fiction of Indonesia and the recent novels attempting to come to grips with the aftermath of World War II. Co-published with the American Association for Netherlandic Studies. Contributors: Wiljan van den Akker, Gillis Dorleijn, Ton Anbeek, E.M. Beekman, Hugo Brems, Ton Broos, Francis Bulhof, Joris Duytschaever, Redbad Fokkema, Jaap Goedegebuure, Marcel Janssens, Wiel Kusters, Margriet Lacy, AndrÃÆ Lefevere, Anne Marie Musschoot, Clem Neutjens, Reinier Salverda, Jolanda Vanderwal Taylor, Manfred Wolf.

Table of Contents

Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Tabula gratulatoria
"The difficulties are the chance of the artist": Poetics, creation, and the modern poem	p. 1
Gerard Reve and romantic irony	p. 29
The emperor's new clothes: The fate of western love	p. 41
Between love and shame: Aspects of recent Flemish prose	p. 55
Two Dutch opinions in the early eighteenth century: Justus van Effen and Jacob Campo Weyerman	p. 63
Tales of Hoffham	p. 77
Canon reconfiguration in Low Countries?	p. 93
Dutch poetry since 1960 reconsidered	p. 109
Symbolist tendencies in late nineteenth century Dutch literature	p. 129
Woman as madonna, virgin, amazon, and bride in the poetry of Hendrik Marsman	p. 141
Meaningful surfaces	p. 157
Belle van Zuylen revisited	p. 167
History, institution, imagination: The epic in the Dutch Republic and what it teaches us	p. 175
Stefan Hertmans and Wallace Stevens: A postmodernist dialogue with modernist tradition	p. 193
The artistic transgression of limits: The case of the Flemish artist Patrick van Caeckenbergh	p. 205
The turn of the native: Literary portraits of Indonesians in Dutch colonial fiction	p. 213
Nature, nurture, and narcissism in two recent Dutch "European" novels: Nelleke Noordervliet's De naam van de vader and Tessa de Loo's De tweeling	p. 239
Fanatic moderation: The unconventional wisdom of J. P. Guepin	p. 255
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