Thomas Vaessens

Yra Dijk

From Michel Houellebecq to Zadie Smith, from Javier Marías to Arnon Grunberg: this timely study takes its reader on a tour of European literature and the critical discussion around it. Despite recent declarations of postmodernism’s demise, contemporary literature turns out to be entangled in a discussion with postmodernism. It is time to critically evaluate this legacy. Twelve specialists in the national literatures sketch the outlines of the debate. Turning to literature itself, they find it to be searching for new values after the relativizing force of postmodernism.

European Literature Beyond Relativism

Reconsidering the Postmodern

Yra van Dijk

From Michel Houellebecq to Zadie Smith, from Javier Marías to Arnon Grunberg: this timely study takes its reader on a tour of European literature and the critical discussion around it. Despite recent declarations of postmodernism's demise, contemporary literature turns out to be entangled in a discussion with postmodernism. It is time to critically evaluate this legacy. Twelve specialists in the national literatures sketch the outlines of the debate. Turning to literature itself, they find it to be searching for new values after the relativizing force of postmodernism.

From Grunberg to Houellebecq, from Hemon to Marías: contemporary literature is deeply influenced by postmodernism. This timely study takes its reader on a tour of the European novel and the critical discussion around it. Now that postmodernism has been declared moribund, it is time to critically evaluate its literary legacy. Have we gone beyond it in literature and why would we want to go beyond? Twelve specialists in the national literatures sketch the outlines of the debate. Turning to the novels, they find them to be engaged, but not uncritically so. Personal, and still ironic; historical, but not nostalgic; Reconsidering the Postmodern reveals how the European novel has renewed itself.

Jacqueline Bel

Summary: Dit boek laat de lezer in zesenvijftig schrijversportretten kennismaken met de breedte en de rijkdom van de Nederlandstalige literatuur sinds 1880. Zoals alle geschiedenissen is ook deze kleine geschiedenis selectief. In dit boek draait het om de vraag wat er gebeurt wanneer we een louter vrouwelijke lijn door de moderne Nederlandse en Vlaamse literatuur trekken. "Schrijvende vrouwen" toont de grote variëteit aan vrouwelijke stemmen in de Nederlandse en Vlaamse literatuur.

een kleine literatuurgeschiedenis van de Lage Landen, 1880-2010

Schrijvende vrouwen

Situering van het werk van de dichters Martinus Nijhoff (1894-1953) en Paul van Ostaijen (1896-1928) in een breed cultuurhistorisch verband.

Nijhoff, van Ostaijen en de mentaliteit van het modernisme

Circus Dubio & Schroom

poëzie in een onpoëtische tijd

Ongerijmd succes

Jos Joosten

Overzicht van de postmodernistische avant-garde in de hedendaagse Nederlandse en Vlaamse poëzie.

Postmoderne poëzie in Nederland en Vlaanderen

This first-of-its-kind anthology offers the English-speaking readers a unique chance to become acquainted with the leading Dutch and Flemish women writers since the 1880s. Covering a representative range of public and private genres from poetry, criticalessays, travel literature and political commentary to diaries and journals, the fifty-six texts are arranged chronologically and are accompagnied by brief introductions, chronologies, and brief guides to the authors and works. An important contribution to our understanding of modern European literary canon and the long march of feminist history and literature. (Dutch ed.: "Schrijvende vrouwen", 978-90-8964-216-5).

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