Publications
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Stad en migratie in de literatuur
(2016)
Urbanity and migration are considered to be two basic components in definitions of modernity. They force us to reflect on how the boundaries between the local and the global are determined and surpassed. Often this results ...
Minoes, Minnie, Minu en andere katse streken. De internationale receptie van Annie M.G. Schmidts Minoes
(2017)
This volume focuses on the international reception of Annie M.G. Schmidt’s Minoes, the most translated Dutch children’s book. The authors investigate the reception and adaptations in the Netherlands and Flanders, the French ...
Professional Learning in Education
(2016)
Educational quality is at the center of debates worldwide. In all these debates, teachers are considered as the critical actors determining to a large extent the quality of our educational systems. At the same time, doubts ...
De spade in de dijk. Waterbeheer en rurale samenleving in de Vlaamse kustvlakte (1280-1580)
(2009)
The Spade in de Dijk is the first synthesis on the organisation of water management in Coastal Flanders during the later Middle Ages. Based on the unique archival evidence produced by local water boards (wateringen), large ...
Un double compromis. Enjeux et débats relatifs à l’enseignement universitaire en Belgique au XIXe siècle
(2006)
This book reveals the history of discussions regarding university education in Belgium, from the abolishment of the old university of Leuven in 1797 to the promulgation of the laws on higher education in 1890 and 1891. ...
Juigchen in den adel der menschelijke natuur. Het verhevene in de Nederlanden (1770-1830)
(2011)
A storm at sea, hanging cliffs, volcano eruptions at night, threatening thunderclouds over a desolate mountain landscape: all these phenomena incite both fear and pleasure, astonishment and fascination. We call them sublime, ...
Terra Incognita. Globalisering, ecologie en rechtvaardige duurzaamheid
(2006)
Despite all attempts by many governments in the world to ascribe to the Holy Grail of ‘sustainable development’, Ecosystem Earth is confronted with a gargantuan sustainability crisis. The West has seduced the rest of the ...
Een monument voor het land. Overheidsstatistiek in België, 1795-1870
(2008)
In A monument to the country. Official statistics in Belgium, 1795-1870, Nele Bracke unravels why and how the Belgian state and its predecessors organized and developed an official statistical apparatus in order to collect ...
Het anti-theater van Antonin Artaud. Een onderzoek naar de veralgemeende artistieke transgressie, toegepast op het werk van Romeo Castellucci en de Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio
(2008)
What does it mean to violate the law on a theatrical stage? This is the central question in the following examination of modern theatre, beginning with the avant-garde, but also including the contemporary and iconoclastic ...
Allemaal beestjes. Mortaliteit en morbiditeit in Vlaanderen, 18de-20ste eeuw
(2006)
This book treats the spectacular rise in life expectancy during the last three centuries. It is the first study to bring together both published and unpublished material about the history of the health of Belgian men and ...
In het spoor van Emile Zola. De narratologische code(s) van het Europese naturalisme
(2006)
For the first time since Chevrels seminal monography Le naturalisme: étude d’un mouvement littéraire international (1982), this study presents an encompassing approach to European naturalism. By means of a logical theoretical ...
Dynamisch Inter(- en Trans)disciplinair TaalOnderzoek. De nieuwe taalwetenschappen
(2006)
Language research is currently in a state of flux. The phenomenon of language is not merely the topic of investigation in linguistics, it is examined by a multitude of scholars with different scientific backgrounds. In ...
Negen muzen, tien geboden. Historische en methodologische gevalstudies over de interactie tussen literatuur en ethiek
(2005)
Literature traditionally holds a special place in society. This fact can be ascribed especially to literature’s unique capability to urge its audience and readers to allow a voice other than their own to resound within. ...
Ieder zijn eigen Arnon Grunberg. Vertaling, promotie en receptie in Italië, Spanje, Catalonië, Portugal en Roemenië
(2012)
This third volume of Lage Landen Studies offers a glimpse of recent international and internationalizing trends in Dutch Studies. It presents a comparative view of the virtually synchronic dynamics of the translation, ...
Les nouvelles voies du comparatisme
(2010)
Which recent methodological innovations have occurred in the field of comparative literature? What are the critical paradigms behind the practices of comparative research today? These questions are the starting point of ...
Tijding en Tendens
(2009)
The central theme of this issue is the singularity of general and comparative literary theory in the Low Countries. How do they combine insights from neighboring linguistic areas, more specifically the dominant French, ...
Nederlands in het perspectief van uitspraakverwerving en contrastieve taalkunde
(2011)
Nederlands in het perspectief van uitspraakverwerving en contrastieve taalkunde (“Dutch from the point of view of pronunciation acquisition and contrastive linguistics”) gives an overview of linguistic research carried out ...
Hermeneutiek in veelvoud
(2011)
What will be the future role of hermeneutics in literary theory? Can we shape the future of hermeneutics by going back to its tradition and by looking at the way hermeneutics is relevant in other disciplines? The new issue ...
Bakhtin’s Theory of the Literary Chronotope: Reflections, Applications, Perspectives
(2010)
This edited volume is the first scholarly tome exclusively dedicated to Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the literary chronotope. This concept, initially developed in the 1930s and used as a frame of reference throughout Bakhtin’s ...
Voicing in Contrast. Acquiring a Second Language Laryngeal System
(2010)
Drawing on both rule-based and constraint-based approaches, Voicing in Contrast examines typological differences in the laryngeal systems of Dutch and English and investigates the extent to which native speakers of Dutch ...
Jan Walravens en het experiment
(2011)
Jan Walravens (1920-1965) played a central role in Flemish literature as he introduced and facilitated literary experiments after the second world war. He was a leading essayist and literary critic, who wrote thousands of ...
The Ideologies of Lived Space in Literary Texts, Ancient and Modern
(2013)
In a brief essay called Des espaces autres (1984) Michel Foucault announced that after the nineteenth century, which was dominated by a historical outlook, the current century might rather be the century of space. His ...
Beatrijs de wereld in. Vertalingen en bewerkingen van het Middelnederlandse verhaal
(2013)
The research project Beatrijs Internationaal brought together about a hundred literary translators and researchers in the field of historical and modern Dutch literature, translation studies and related disciplines, from ...
Ethiek van de lectuur. Frans Kellendonk en de (h)erkenning van de andersheid
(2012)
To what extent is it possible for a literary text to contribute to the ethical development of its reader? This book tries to provide readers with a nuanced answer to this question, as well as with methodological premises ...
Sexpert
(2013)
Sexual health in Flanders describes the results of the first representative population-based study on this topic in Flanders (the Northern, Dutch-speaking part of Belgium). A research team of psychologists, sexologists, ...
Huisbeelden in de moderne Nederlandstalige poëzie
(2012)
This book explores images of the house in Dutch-language poetry from the postwar period. On the one hand the archetypical notion of the house has always had an established place in poetry. It is connected to the meaning ...
Van Eeden tot heden
(2012)
Ranging from Polish inspirations in contemporary authors such as Bernlef, Frank Westerman and Erwin Mortier, over the Central European successes of the now forgotten Jo van Ammers-Küller, to the Bulgarian character Firmin ...
A Pure Mind in a Clean Body
(2012)
Buddhist monasteries, in both Ancient India and China, have played a crucial social role, for religious as well as for lay people. They rightfully attract the attention of many scholars, discussing historical backgrounds, ...
Literatuurwetenschap en uitgeverijonderzoek
(2012)
Over the last few decades cultural sociology and book history have stimulated the study of publishers and their role in the production, distribution, reception and consumption of literature. As such these disciplines have ...
Van Siska van Rosemael tot Max Havelaar
(2021)
Migration of literature across regional and national borders is a thriving research topic. This issue of LLS is the first general overview of the reception of Dutch-language literature in Czech translation in the period ...
Grensverleggende beelden
(2020)
Crossing borders is a perilous undertaking, as this time of migrations and pandemics teaches us. Also for
language-related cultural goods such as literary works, crossing those borders requires a lot of planning, strategic ...
Tegen de natuur? = Against Nature?
(2019)
The ways in which sexuality is conceptualized, narrated, mythologized and practised vary greatly across historical periods and cultures. But however variously sexuality has been constructed over centuries, it has very often ...
Literatuur en religie = Literature and Religion
(2020)
In the aftermath of 9/11, religion made a comeback has made a comeback as a geopolitical and discursive reality. Literature too is increasingly turning its attention to religion in the cultural production of the past and ...
De Internationale Vereniging voor Neerlandistiek
(2022)
Dutch is an important language, not only in Europe. Beyond Flanders and the Netherlands, there are 200 universities and colleges worldwide where over 15.000 students study Dutch as a language, investigate the language or ...
De auteur
(2014)
Marges van de literatuur
(2013)
Modernisme = Modernism
(2021)
Taalbarometer
(2025)