Projects
Cultural policy, international publishers and the circulation of Dutch literature in translation KU Leuven
This project seeks to offer new insight into how literature from Flanders and the Netherlands finds its way to international publishers. It focuses particular attention on the two most important target markets for Dutch literature in translation: the German-language market and the English-language market. Previous exploratory research by the promoter of this project has shown that the national funding agencies that formulate and deploy the ...
'From Ninette to Tavern Princess': Lyrical drama and operas from the Southern Netherlands (1759-1907) and the position of Dutch as a singing language. University of Antwerp
The Translation and Reception of Heinrich Böll in the Dutch Language Area, 1950-1970. KU Leuven
Language rights, policies and practices in linguistically diverse societies: are current legal orders addressing the needs and concerns of persons belonging to language minorities as well as those of the administration? University of Antwerp
Artists' Lives in Dutch and Flemish biographical fiction (1918-2008): narratology, poetics, dynamics. KU Leuven
"Hore dochter", a Middle Dutch spiritual guide for nuns. KU Leuven
Tradition and innovation in Middle Dutch chivalric romances from the fourteenth century. KU Leuven
From "black as ebony" to "black as ink"; The Dutch and Flemish variants of "Snow White" in the literary-historical reception of Grimm's fairy tales. University of Antwerp
Apocalyps and eschatology in the works of the 14th-century Middle Dutch authors Jan van Boendale, Lodewijk van Velthem and Jan van Leeuwen Ghent University
The Apocalyptic-eschatological views were subjects to change soon after the writing of the Apocalys. Alternative interprestations cna be discerned at certain points in time, especially in the Western European Middle Ages. The evolution of the Apocalyptic-eschatological ideas in the work of the 14th-century Middle Dutch authors Velthem, Boendale en Van Leeuwen will be the focus of the research project.