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En garde. Poëtica's voor een nieuwe roman KU Leuven
This article presents four types of poetics that may be used as a model to chart twentieth-century and more specifically postwar theories of the innovative novel: avant-garde, neo-avant-garde (so-called 'Other Prose'), trans-avant-garde (postmodernism) and arrière-garde (return to reality). The four types are characterized in terms of three dimensions: their views on history, on narrative form, and finally their self-proclaimed relation with the ...
The Storied Lives of Non-Human Narrators KU Leuven University of Antwerp Ghent University
Genre in verandering. Vernieuwingen in de naoorlogse Nederlandstalige roman KU Leuven
This article deals with the novel as a paradoxical and dynamic genre. It first circumscribes the 'generic space' of the novel in terms of three characteristics. The second step unravels the mechanisms that determine the labeling of novels as 'traditional' or 'experimental'. To reach that aim, the article combines the theories of Pierre Bourdieu, Linda Hutcheon, Stephen Greenblatt, and Raymond Williams. The approach developed in this way is ...