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The Untameable Trotzkopf: Commerce and Canonicity in the Curious Circulation of a Classic of German Children’s Literature in the Low Countries and Germany KU Leuven
This paper investigates the multidirectional circulation of the Trotzkopf series in the Low Countries and Germany. Emmy von Rhoden's Der Trotzkopf (1885), a classic of German children’s literature, and its sequels were almost immediately translated into Dutch. However, Stijfkopje als Grootmoeder (1904) the sequel that completes the series, was written by the Dutch writer Suze la Chapelle-Roobol. Translated into German it was treated as an ...
Mine monitoring in the German Baltic Sea 2021; dumped munition monitoring. AL567. 17th – 31st October 2021, Kiel (Germany) – Kiel (Germany). „MineMoni‐III 2021“ Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
Germanic myths and gender constructions in German and Dutch theatre texts 1660U+20131780 Universiteit Gent
Germanic liberation myths play an important role in the development of a national consciousness in both the Dutch Republic and the German countries. This article discusses a selection of German and Dutch theatre texts from the seventeenth and eighteenth century about the uprisings and battles of Germanic tribes against the Romans. In existing studies of the Hermannsschlacht-motif in German literature, some scholars conclude that in the course of ...
Noun phrase modifiers in early Germanic : a comparative corpus study of Old English, Old High German, Old Icelandic, and Old Saxon Universiteit Gent
This chapter gives an overview of modifier position in noun phrases in the early Germanic languages Old English, Old High German, Old Icelandic, and Old Saxon. We first present data for the relative position of adjectives, cardinal numerals, possessives, participles, and quantifiers in relation to the head noun. Then we compare aspects of the different languages and discuss factors that might account for the distribution, such as texts and ...
Analogues of the way-construction in German and Dutch: another Germanic sandwich? Universiteit Antwerpen
This paper addresses the English way-construction [SUBJi V POSSi way OBL] and its reflexive analogues in German and Dutch. We argue that the different constructions are best compared using conceptual terms describing middle situations in the domain of autocausative motion (Kemmer 1993). Two dimensions are especially important: path traversal and goal-directedness (or telicity). It will be shown that way-constructions and their analogues can be ...
'All these things one has to endure from these Germans': German stage characters as means to criticize changing social positions in seventeenth-century Amsterdam Universiteit Antwerpen
In seventeenth-century Dutch theatre many stereotypical German characters appeared on the stage. Uncouth, ridiculous Germans speaking Dutch/German pidgin became a stereotypical joke in comic theatre, and this caricature enhanced the reception and entertainment value of a play. Moreover, playwrights also criticized or denounced moffen (Krauts) in Amsterdam as welfare-grabbers or social-climbers. Criticizing Germans was relatively safe for a ...