New PDF release: A Literary History of the Low Countries (French Edition)

What used to be the written tradition at the back of visible artists like Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Rubens? What made the historic novel in nineteenth-century Flanders so assorted from its counterpart in Holland? Whatwas the literary effect of the massive colonial empires run through the Netherlands and Belgium? What position did Latin, French, and Frisian play within the literary tradition of the Low international locations during the a while? Why is experimental writing so regular in smooth Dutch literature? What has made Cees Nooteboom an the world over acclaimed writer? and the way does Flemish relate to Dutch besides? this primary literary heritage of the Netherlands and Flanders in English because the Seventies solutions those and plenty of different questions. Written by way of a workforce of Dutch and Flemish topic experts, it bargains a finished and authoritative account of the literature of the Dutch-speaking zone from the medieval interval as much as the current day. whereas it makes a speciality of literature written in Dutch, it additionally assesses the importance of writings in French, Latin, and Frisian.

individuals: Ton Anbeek, Willem van den Berg, Jaap Goedegebuure, E. ok. Grootes, Anne Marie Musschoot, Frits van Oostrom, Herman Pleij, M. A. Schenkeveld-van der Dussen, Marleen de Vries.

Theo Hermans is Professor of Dutch and Comparative Literature at college collage London.