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The Measure of Middle Dutch: Rhythm and Prosody Reconstruction for Middle Dutch Literature, A Data-Driven Approach. University of Antwerp

Frank Willaert
Centre for Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics (CLiPS), Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN)
What does it mean when the rhythm of a literary text is called 'snappy' or 'fluid'? And what are the characteristics of literature that is 'easily engraved on one's mind'? The rhythmical qualities of literature are often described on an intuitive basis, while using vague terms. This is especially true for Middle Dutch literature. The many rhymed texts of our literary history's earliest stages frequently receive labels like these. However, it ...

Literature and Pornography: a textual and contextual study of Dutch novels in the 1960s and 1970s. KU Leuven

Bart Vervaeck
Dutch Literature, Leuven

The interaction between pornography and modern fiction has rarely been examined in Dutch literary studies. The present proposal seeks to remedy this by focusing on a corpus of pornographic novels from the 60s and 70s written by renowned authors (Ferron, Geeraerts, Heeresma en Krijgelmans) who represent different forms of literature. The aim is twofold: (1) to contextualize these pornographic texts and determine their institutional position in ...

Constrained. A Comparative Study of the Influence of Form on the Material Transmission of Middle Dutch Literature. University of Antwerp

Remco Sleiderink
Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC), Centre for Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics (CLiPS), Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN)
Recent international research increasingly focuses on the spread and survival of medieval literature. During the Middle Ages, the material transmission of texts depended entirely on the manual transcription of literature, granting texts a fluid character. This project will investigate which coping mechanisms helped to guarantee the sustainable exchange of information in textual cultures that are characterized by unstable transmission modes. An ...

Dutch Experimental Realism of the 1960s - Reading Documentary Literature through Autobiographical Genres Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Hans Vandevoorde
Ghent University, Language and literature
This project aims to give an overview of the Dutch documentary literature of the 1960s. During this period various authors introduced reality in their work in a non-traditional way, pursuing an experimental realism. In order to approach this subject matter in a way that will contribute to both the understanding of Dutch literary history and documentary literature on an international level, I will study how readers are able to understand the ...

The changing face of medieval Dutch narrative literature in the early period of print (1477-c.1540). University of Antwerp

Frank Willaert
Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN)
This research project will, for the first time, study the early printed Dutch narratives as a whole corpus. These texts are of outmost importance for the history of Dutch literature, because they are the link between medieval narratives copied in manuscripts andearly modern narratives, printed after c. 1540. While the first of the 35 texts involved, the Historie of Alexander, was published as early as 1477, the dates of the latest ones ...

The end rhyme in Middle Dutch epic literature (ca. 1200-1500): development and relationship to authorship and genres. University of Antwerp

Frank Willaert
Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC), Centre for Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics (CLiPS), Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN)
Nearly all of Middle Dutch narrative literature (ca. 1200-1500) was written in rhyming couplets, which is why rhyme words are extremely suitable for the comparative study of Middle Dutch epic texts and authors. My research specifically focuses on three aspects: (a) the evolution of rhyme in the vernacular epic poetry of the medieval Low Countries; (b) the usefulness of rhyme words for authorship verification and attribution; (c) the correlation ...

The end rhyme in Middle Dutch epic literature (ca. 1200-1500): development and relationship to authorship and genres. University of Antwerp

Frank Willaert
Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC), Centre for Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics (CLiPS), Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN)
Nearly all of Middle Dutch narrative literature (ca. 1200-1500) was written in rhyming couplets, which is why rhyme words are extremely suitable for the comparative study of Middle Dutch epic texts and authors. My research specifically focuses on three aspects: (a) the evolution of rhyme in the vernacular epic poetry of the medieval Low Countries; (b) the usefulness of rhyme words for authorship verification and attribution; (c) the correlation ...

"To be continued..." Dutch newspaper translations of Russian literature, 1840-1970. Ghent University

Piet Van Poucke
Department of Literary Studies, Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication

In the 19th and 20th centuries, large amounts of readers were acquainted with foreign literature in their daily paper. Out of reach, gathering dust on library shelves and considered lowbrow literature this medium was until recently neglected. Thanks to digital archiving periodical studies are now gaining scholarly interest, although newspaper translations are yet to be examined. Unique in its kind, this research project focuses on ...

Glorification and/or Annihilation? The Status of Humanity in the Highest Union ("sonder differencie") with God in Middle Dutch Mystical Literature KU Leuven

Rob Faesen
Research Unit of History of Church and Theology

The proposed project will research the status of humanity in Middle Dutch mystical literature, and particularly regarding the theme of the ‘highest union’ with God. Concerning humanity, these texts contain a remarkable paradox with far-reaching consequences. A number of indicators appear to suggest that according to these mystical authors, humanity disappears in God in this ultimate union (cf. 'union without difference', 'mystical ...

Evaluation of literature by professional and layperson critics: A digital and literary sociological analysis of evaluative talk of literature through the prism of literary prizes (2007-2017) Ghent University

Gunther Martens
Department of Literary Studies, Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication, Department of Sociology

Recently, the manager of a Dutch publishing consortium manager stated that literary quality should
be measured and predicted by means of algorithms and big data-based audience research, rather
than by experts. His claim drew ire and caused the exodus of many of established authors; at the
same time, the statement is indicative of a broader societal trend in which the knowledge of
professional 'pundits' is rivalled and ...