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Course code: DUTC4201.
Course unit value: 0.5.
Making Modern Dutch Literature
This course provides students with the opportunity to study writers whose work has had a major impact on the modern literary canon. The course looks at the institution of Dutch literature from the mid-nineteenth century until today. There will be a number of case studies of individual authors taken from different periods and representing literature from the Netherlands and Flanders. Currently these authors are Carry van Bruggen, Hugo Claus and Cees Nooteboom.
Tutor: Jane Fenoulhet.
Assessment: two 3000 word essays, weighted equally.
Preparatory reading and set texts:
The Literary Field
- Bourdieu, Pierre. The Field of Cultural Production, 1993.
- Boven, Erica van. Een hoofdstuk apart. Vrouwenromans in de literaire kritiek 1898-1930, 1992.
- Dorleijn, Gillis & Kees van Rees (eds). De productie van literatuur: het literaire veld in Nederland 1800-2000, 2006.
Carry van Bruggen
- Uit het leven van een denkende vrouw (1920)Eva (1928)
Hugo Claus
- De Oostakkerse gedichten (1955)Het verdriet van Belgie (1983)
Cees Nooteboom
Rituelen (1980)
Het volgende verhaal (1991)
