RUG - Template basic NL

15 - 06 -2015 | 1
Between Modernity and Outmodedness
Conceptions of authorship of Dutch realist novelists
› Modern Dutch Literature / Meriel Benjamins
[background]
15-06-2015 | 2
Dutch
Middlebrow
Literature
1930-1940
(RUG/OU)
what literary historiography does
15-06-2015 | 3
[theory I]
15-06-2015 | 4
Amossy (2009)
figure imaginaire
ethos
[theory II]
15-06-2015 | 5
Meizoz (2007)
conduites sociales
external
effets de texte
internal
[Herman Robbers I]
15-06-2015 | 6
[Herman Robbers II]
15-06-2015 | 7
Textual / non-fictional
15-06-2015 | 8
- estheticism (≈ 80)
- public oriented critique
- non-polemic
- anti-theoretical
- refute image of romantic author
(≠80)
Textual / fictional
15-06-2015 | 9
Trilogy: Een mannenleven
I: Sint Elmsvuur (1919)
- 'epical' I
- intertexts
- poetical passages
Behavioural
15-06-2015 | 10
Wagner theater (1910)
P.H. Berlage
15-06-2015 | 11
Vooys / De Beweging (1910)
D'Oliveira / De jongere generatie (1914)
Ter Braak / Propria Cures (1924)
Marsman / De Vrije Bladen (1925)
Conclusions
15-06-2015 | 12
Concluding remarks
- outmoded poetics, modern conception of literary field
- no explicit positioning/demarcation w.r.t. predecessors
- directed to heteronomous pole (both social/
commerical motives)
- thematizing and minimalizing opposition bourgeoise /
artistic
dd-mm-jj | 13
middlebrow.nl
[email protected]