Niets menselijks is de schrijver vreemd. Hij ergert zich aan zijn collega, aan de criticus die zijn boek afkraakt of aan de corrupte staat van de mensheid zelve. Dan grijpt hij naar het beste wapen... Show moreNiets menselijks is de schrijver vreemd. Hij ergert zich aan zijn collega, aan de criticus die zijn boek afkraakt of aan de corrupte staat van de mensheid zelve. Dan grijpt hij naar het beste wapen dat hij heeft: de pen. Deze bundel bevat zesentwintig korte beschouwingen over verschijningsvormen van strijd en conflict in de Nederlandse letteren. Vanaf de vroegste polemiek in het Nederlands in de middeleeuwen, dwars door de geschiedenis, tot en met de vete tussen Herman Brusselmans en Arnon Grunberg in de eenentwintigste eeuw. Maar ook de literatuur zelf komt aan bod. In drie gedichten en een verhaal, speciaal voor deze bundel geschreven, leveren Maria van Daalen, Willem Jan Otten, Anton Korteweg en oek de Jong hun visie op het thema 'strijd'. - http://lup.nl/do.php?a=process_visitor_download&editorial_id=1778 - >Bekijk Inhoudsopgave & Inleiding (pdf). Strijd! Verschijnt ter gelegenheid van het afscheid van Jaap Goedegebuure als hoogleraar Moderne Nederlandse Letterkunde aan de Universiteit Leiden. Dutch literature Show less
Bürgel, Johann-Christoph; Ruymbeke, Christine van 2011
This "Key" to the Khamsa consists of thirteen essays by eminent scholars in the field of Persian Studies, each focusing on different aspects of the Khamsa, which is a collection of five long poems... Show moreThis "Key" to the Khamsa consists of thirteen essays by eminent scholars in the field of Persian Studies, each focusing on different aspects of the Khamsa, which is a collection of five long poems written by the Persian poet Nizami of Ganja. Nizami (1141-1209) lived and worked in Ganja in present-day Azerbaijan. He is widely recognized as one of the main poets of Medieval Persia, a towering figure who produced outstanding poetry, straddling mysticism, romances and epics. He has left his mark on the whole Persian-speaking world and countless younger poets in the area stretching from the Ottoman to the Mughal worlds (present-day Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, India) have found him an inspiration and have tried to emulate him. His work has influenced such other immense poets as Hafez, Rumi, and Saadi. His five masnavis (long poems) address a variety of topics and disciplines and have all enjoyed enormous fame, as the countless surviving manuscripts of his work indicate. His heroes, Khosrow and Shirin, Leili and Majnun, Iskandar count amongst the stars of the Persian literary firmament and have become household names all over the Islamic world. The essays in the present volume constitute a significant development in the field of Nizami-studies, and on a more general level, of classical Persian literature. They focus on topics such as mysticism, art history, comparative literature, science, and philosophy. they show how classical Greek knowledge mingles in a unique manner with the Persian past and the Islamic culture in Nizami's world. They reflect a high degree of engagement with the existing scholarship in the field, they revive and challenge traditional views on the poet and his work and are indispensable both for specialists in the field and for anyone interested in the movement of ideas in the Medieval world. Show less
Seyed-Gohrab, A.A.; Doufikar-Aerts, F.; McGlinn, S. 2011
Gog and Magog, as archetypes of evil, have dwelt in our consciousness since their threatening appearance in the Bible and Quran. Maps, literature and texts ranging from Medieval Europe, the... Show moreGog and Magog, as archetypes of evil, have dwelt in our consciousness since their threatening appearance in the Bible and Quran. Maps, literature and texts ranging from Medieval Europe, the Byzantine and Arab world, in Berber, Persian and Indonesian traditions, to contemporary internet texts: all use these imaginary monstrous creatures. The figures are constantly reinterpreted as the enemies of order change. Gog and Magog have been represented with dog heads, snake tongues. On the covers of contemporary Arab apocalyptic literature they may be giants or half-humans. This volume Embodiments of Evil: Gog and Magog reveals in eight essays the images of the 'Other' in genres ranging from contemporary folk religion on the internet to the rich literary heritage of Alexander romances. Show less
The thesis analyses the development of Western images of China from the first Franciscan missions to the Mongol court (c. 1250) up to 2007 and against that background discusses the development of... Show moreThe thesis analyses the development of Western images of China from the first Franciscan missions to the Mongol court (c. 1250) up to 2007 and against that background discusses the development of Dutch views on China expressed in literary works (prose, poetry and theatre) and their relationship with the history of Western-Chinese relations and the development of Western knowledge about China. From 17th century plays by Joost van den Vondel and J. Antonides van der Goes inspired on the fall of the Ming-dynasty (1644), Dutch literary chinoiserie took many different forms and produced a wide variety of distorted views on the Middle Kingdom and its people and culture, views that tell us more about Western concerns and perceptions than about China itself. Within Dutch chinoiserie the discovery of Chinese poetry through translations into French, German and English stands out as a major trend between the two World Wars, inspiring translations and adaptations by many Dutch and Flemish poets which show a growing interest in Chinese philosophy and experiments with poetical forms with expressionist and Imagist tendencies inspired by (translated) Chinese poetry. Show less
