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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797546303321

Titolo

Modern Dutch studies : essays in honour of Professor Peter King on the occasion of his retirement / / edited by M.J. Wintle ; co-editor, Paul Vincent

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2015

ISBN

1-4742-4146-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (354 p.)

Collana

History: European history, Bloomsbury Academic collections

Disciplina

949.2

Soggetti

Dutch language

Netherlands Social life and customs

Netherlands History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published in 1988 by The Athlone Press."

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Modern Dutch Studies: An Introduction; Part I: Language and Translation; 2 On Translating Proper Names, with reference to De Witte and Max Havelaar; 3 Sir John Bowring (1792-1832) as a Translator and Publicist of Dutch Literature and Culture; 4 The Germanic Glory-Hole: On Translating the Poetry of P. C. Boutens; 5 How Difficult are the Phrasal Verbs for Dutch Learners of English?; 6 Dutch CALL at Hull: An Evaluation of Computer-Assisted Language Learning; Part II: Literature

7 Geertruyd van Oosten and 'Het daghet in den Oosten'8 The Biblical Plays of the Rhetoricians and the Pageants of Oudenaarde and Lille; 9 Old High German in Ghent in 1549; 10 Criminal Biographies or Picaresque Novels? An Investigation of the Dutch Translations of The English Rogue and Moll Flanders; 11 Anglo-Saxon Impressions: P. N. van Eyck, J. C. Bloem, A. Roland Hoist and English Poetry; 12 A Closer Look at M. Nijhoff's 'Langs een wereld' ('Passing worlds'); 13 The Significance of Proper Nouns in Bordewijk's Bint; 14 A Faulknerian Device in Dutch Narrative Prose; Part III: Social Sciences

15 The Adoption and Rejection of Elements of Marxism in the Dutch Trade Union Movement, 1890-193416 Ideas for a New Regime in the Netherlands after the Defeat of 1940; 17 The Abortive Dutch Assault on European Tariffs, 1950-2; 18 Political Culture in Belgium; 19 Social



Development in the Netherlands in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Review of Historical Research since 1970; Part IV: The Visual Arts; 20 Godfried Schalcken's Allegory of Virtue and Riches; 21 Theo van Doesburg: 'Art/Criticism'; Notes; Bibliography: The Principal Publications of P. K. King; Index

Sommario/riassunto

These essays by leading scholars explore the integration of language and literature study in the fields of art history and social sciences, exploring as a result the scope and nature of the discipline of Dutch Studies today.