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Landscapes of Nostalgia: Biologists and Literary Intellectuals Protecting Belgium's "Wilderness" KU Leuven University of Antwerp
The nature protection movement in early twentieth-century Belgium mobilised activists of diverse backgrounds. Among these, two circles stand out. On the one hand, there was a group of life scientists, who gathered in the Belgian League for the Protection of Nature; on the other, a group of literary intellectuals, who organised themselves in the Society for Natural and Urban Beauty. In this article, the discursive strategies employed by both ...
Anthony Trollope's Late Style: Victorian Liberalism and Literary Form KU Leuven
© Frederik Van Dam, 2016. Henry James famously dismissed the works which constitute Anthony Trollope's ultimate compositions for their 'fatal dryness of texture' and 'mechanical movement'. Taking its cue from James's observations while challenging his assessment, this study examines the full stylistic range of the novels and biographies which Trollope explored in his final decade, from allegory, satire, and parody, through poignancy, the ...
An Opaque Mirror for Trajan A Literary Analysis and Interpretation of Plutarch's Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata KU Leuven
The authenticity of Plutarch's Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, a collection of 494 apophthegms dedicated to the Roman emperor Trajan, was rejected in the nineteenth and twentieth century, after the influential attack of Volkmann (1869) 210-234. More recent research, however, is inclined to accept Plutarch's authorship, in line with the defence of Flacelière (1976) and especially of Beck (2002). Because of these authenticity issues, ...
Bart Roger D. Sell, Adam Borch, and Inna Lindgren, eds. The ethics of literary communication University of Antwerp
Philosophy, critique, and history. On Horkheimer's early writings Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In this contribution I explore the importance of the philosophy of history in critical theory, and to do so I go back to the beginnings of critical theory as presented in Horkheimer's early work (Traditionelle und kritische Theorie, 1937). Critical and traditional theory are based on a different vision of time, history and the relationship between subject and object. For the question of whether and how the history of philosophy plays a role in ...
The interplay of language norms and usage patterns. Comparing the history of Dutch, English, French and German Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Historical sociolinguistics has come a long way. Inspired by the empirical approach to spoken language in modern sociolinguistic research, authors such as Romaine (1982) and Milroy (1992) felt the need to apply sociolinguistic research methods to language history. It became important to create reliable databases comprising source materials that were suitable for sociolinguistic investigation. In the absence of spoken language data, the most ...
Antiquarianism and National History. The Emergence of a New Scholarly Paradigm in Early Modern Historical Studies KU Leuven
© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Early modern Europe was marked by fundamental changes in its intellectual landscape. In the field of historiography, this led to the development of a new antiquarian current in historiography which marked a fundamental shift in the view on historical writings. While traditionally historiography had been considered a literary genre, the new scholars approached it as a ...
Review of "Open Wounds: Holocaust Theater and the Legacy of George Tabori", eds. Martin Kagel and David Z. Saltz Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Book review of an edited volume on the playwright George Tabori.