Publisher's Synopsis
This book is a collection of twelve articles from the 1995 Berkeley Conference on Dutch Literature, ranging from critical essays on post-war Dutch poets as well as a re-examination of the current literary history of Dutch poetry. It deals with new currents in Dutch poetry, presented by American, Dutch, and Flemish netherlandists. It will be of interest to literary scholars beyond the field of Dutch poetry, since there is a strong comparative component to it; comparing Dutch with non-Dutch poetry. Contents: Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Theo van Doesburg and "De Stijl" in Light of the Fin de Siecle, Mary Kemperink; Postsymbolist Poets and the Dutch Cultural Regime, Marian de Vooght; Melodious Tears: The Struggle for Life and Poetry of Hans Lodeizen (1924-1950), Redbad Fokkema; Anna Enquist and the Contemporary Style in Poetry, Manfred Wolf; Poetry by the Numbers: On the Historiography of Modern Dutch Poetry, Wiljan van den Akker, Gillis Dorleijn; Face to Face: Contemporary Poetry of the Netherlands, Flanders, and Serbia, Jelica Novakovic-Lopusina; Hugo Claus' Poetry: Constants and Variants, Georges Wildemeersch; The Shape of the Heart: On the Transformation of Pain in the Work of Leonard Nolens, Helinde Spahr; With a Caterpillar on the Leaf of His Lips: The Oracular Poetry of Paul Snoek in Hercules, Richelieu, and Nostradamus, Kendall A. Dunkelberg; The Smell of Higher Herring: Some Preliminary Remarks on Dutch Poetry in the Nineties, Jacqueline Del; De Dichter Voor de Klas: Gerrit Kouwenaar en de Professoren, Johan P. Snapper; Contributors' addresses. Co-published with Publications of the American Association for Netherlandic Studies #11 (AAN).
