Boudewijn heeft altijd mythes nodig gehad. Gerard Reve zegt ergens: "Ik speel de rol die ik ben." Boudewijn lijkt meer uit te gaan van de stelregel: "Ik speel de rol die ik wil zijn." Of al die verhalen nou waar zijn of niet doet er niet toe: in beide gevallen heeft hij veel te verbergen.
Als het allemaal waar is, is het tragisch en triest; en is het allemaal niet waar, dan is dat op zichzelf ook weer tragisch en triest. In beide gevallen kun je je het best verbergen - in verhalen die je hebt verzonnen, zodat niemand weet waar die aan toe is. Wil je dat niemand je ziet, schep een dubbelganger die iedereen misleidt en ga zelf de andere kant op.
Zijn aandoeningen zijn daarom geen aandoeningen, het zijn taalspelletjes. "Ik ben zeer depressief," zegt Boudewijn te pas en te onpas, maar altijd met een vrolijk gezicht, en nadat hij weer een wereldreis heeft gemaakt, een succesboek heeft geschreven of volle zalen heeft getrokken in de provincie. En het publiek lacht. Maar die aandoening, die depressie heeft hij nodig en schept hij, creëert hij, omdat het een mooi kader is waarin hij zijn spelletjes kan spelen. Die lach bij het publiek komt door de incongruentie die men voelt tussen de depressieve boodschap en de blijmoedige, gezellige omgeving. Zijn echte aandoening is natuurlijk niet zijn depressie, of zijn doodsverlangen, of zijn romantische pedofilie, of het gejaag op zijn vader. Zijn echte aandoening is zijn onbedwingbare, voor mijn part pathologische lust om te verzinnen, te scheppen. In taal. Zoals het een dichter betaamt. Vandaar dat hij een keiharde werker is - altijd maar schrijven, schrijven, schrijven, wat natuurlijk vluchten, vluchten, vluchten is, voor de waarheid of de leugen.

Korte bijdragen van hedendaagse Nederlandse auteurs over woorden die te maken hebben met het begrip familie.

Weergave van een mogelijk in 1974 in de buurt van Nag Hammadi gevonden manuscript over een Kopt die inwoners uit Jeruzalem een dag voor de aanval van de kruisvaders spirituele raad geeft.

Spiritual Shakespeares is the first book to explore the scope for reading Shakespeare spiritually in the light of contemporary theory and current world events. Ewan Fernie has brought together an exciting cast of critics in order to respond to the 'religious turn' in recent literary theory and to the spiritualized politics of terrorism and the 'War on Terror'.

Exploring a genuinely new perspective within Shakespeare Studies, the volume suggests that experiencing the spiritual intensities of the plays could lead us back to dramatic intensity as such. It tests spirituality from a political perspective, as well as subjecting politics to an unusual spiritual critique. Amongst its controversial and provocative arguments is the idea that a consideration of spirituality might point the way forward for materialist criticism.

Reaching across and beyond literary studies to offer challenging and powerful contributions from leading scholars, this book offers unique readings of some very familiar plays.

Why is Shakespeare as highly regarded now as he ever has been? This book's answer to this question counters claims that Shakespeare's iconic status is no more than an accident of history. The plays, Belsey argues, entice us into a world we recognize by retelling traditional fairy tales with a difference, each chapter providing a detailed reading.

Why did Shakespeare write drama? Did he have specific reasons for his choice of this art form? Did he have clearly defined aesthetic aims in what he wanted drama to do - and why? Pauline Kiernan opens up a new area of debate for Shakespearean criticism in showing that a radical, complex defence of drama which challenged the Renaissance orthodox view of poetry, history and art can be traced in Shakespeare's plays and poems. This study, first published in 1996, examines different stages in the canon to show that far from being restricted by the 'limitations' of drama, Shakespeare consciously exploits its capacity to accommodate temporality and change, and its reliance on the physical presence of the actor. This lively, readable book offers an original and scholarly insight into what Shakespeare wanted his drama to do and why.

Overzicht per decennium in essays en interviews van ontwikkelingen in de Nederlandse taal in de twintigste eeuw.

Overzicht van de belangrijkste schrijvers en stromingen, van Wolfram von Eschenbach tot Gabrielle Wohmann

Verklarende woordenlijst.

Causerie over curieus hedendaags taalgebruik op het werk.

Wat hebben golfers met juristen gemeen? En wetenschappers met zeilers? En waarom tref je muziekliefhebbers aan in de buurt van liefhebbers van paardendressuur? Dit boek geeft op deze en tal van andere vragen een antwoord. Het maakt de alomtegenwoordigheid en noodzaak duidelijk van terminologie, van vaktaal. Vaak maken wij van vaktermen gebruik, zij het onbewust, omdat het nu eenmaal onbegonnen werk is over dingen te praten waarvoor je geen naam hebt. Daarom ook is het belangrijk dat wij op alle domeinen en in alle situaties de dingen een naam kunnen geven. Niet alleen wiskundigen en zeilers, maar ook juristen, golfspelers, muziekliefhebbers, schakers, economen, vrouwen, mannen die van kokkerellen houden, enz. enz. In dit boek lichten dertig Bekende Nederlanders en Bekende Vlamingen, onder wie Kristien Hemmerechts, Ionica Smeets, Hans Dorresteijn en Jean Paul Vanbendegem, op een onderhoudende wijze hun relatie met vaktaal toe.

Lexicon op belangrijke personen en gebeurtenissen uit de klassieke geschiedenis die als onderwerp dienden voor latere westerse kunst.

This book is designed so that writers, teachers, and students can begin to incorporate the insights of linguistics into their study of communication and writing. It has two main purposes. One is to demystify some of the most worthwhile and powerful linguistic theories that illuminate written discourse. Basic linguistic principles and theories are outlined. The primary purpose is to present a way in which these theories can be developed into practical techniques and methods for dealing with the writing and editing of texts. Oriented toward userspeople who are seeking methods to improve their writingthe book contains numerous examples and exercises. Topics covered: the linguistic study of language; the cognitive processing of information; using non-traditional grammars; achieving cohesion and coherence; creating global coherence through macrostructures; and the pragmatic and sociolinguistic parameters of written communication.

Now frequently anthologized, Zora Neale Hurston's short story Sweat was first published in Firell, a legendary literary magazine of the Harlem Renaissance, whose sole issue appeared in November 1926. Among contributions by Gwendolyn Bennett, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Wallace Thurman, Sweat stood out both for its artistic accomplishment and its exploration of rural Southern black life. In Sweat Hurston claimed the voice that animates her mature fiction, notably the 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God; the themes of marital conflict and the development of spiritual consciousness were introduced as well. Sweat exemplifies Hurston's lifelong concern with women's relation to language and the literary possibilities of black vernacular.

This casebook for the story includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of the author's life, the authoritative text of Sweat, and a second story, The Gilded Six-Bits. Published in 1932, this second story was written after Hurston had spent years conducting fieldwork in the Southern United States. The volume also includes Hurston's groundbreaking 1934 essay, Characteristics of Negro Expression, and excerpts from her autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road. An article by folklorist Roger Abrahams provides additional cultural contexts for the story, as do selected blues and spirituals. Critical commentary comes from Alice Walker, who led the recovery of Hurston's work in the 1970s, Robert Hemenway, Henry Louis Gates, Gayl Jones, John Lowe, Kathryn Seidel, and Mary Helen Washington.

In Engendering the Republic of Letters Susan Dalton analyses the lives of four of the most famous salon women in France and the Venetian republic in the late eighteenth-century - Julie de Lespinasse, Marie-Jeanne Roland, Giustina Renier Michiel, and Elisabetta Mosconi Contarini who all lived through the events that transformed Western culture, including the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic Wars.Being women provided them with a particular perspective, expressed first-hand through their letters. Dalton shows how Lespinasse, Roland, Renier Michiel, and Mosconi grappled with differences of ideology, social status, and community, often through networks that mixed personal and professional relations, thus calling into question the actual separation between public and private spheres. Building on the work of Dena Goodman and Daniel Gordon, Dalton shows how a variety of conflicts were expressed in everyday life and sheds new light on Venice as an important eighteenth-century cultural centre.

The history of the black women writers in America, their struggle for recognition, and their contributions to American literature.

From the great monuments of Greek antiquity we can glean much of the glory of ancient Greece. But what can we know about the people who designed and built the Parthenon and the Acropolis? What did they eat and wear? What was expected of women? And how did they fill their leisure hours? Two eminent German professors, who set about answering these and many other questions, begin their exploration of this period with the architectural achievements of the Greeks, which stand as such powerful cultural expressions of Greek society. The authors have uncovered myriad aspects of Greek life -- whether it be the architectural ground plan for one of the oldest Greek temples, or Greek music and education -- and have produced a thoroughly researched, instructive and entertaining book which will appeal to scholar and layman alike. 

The great Roman monuments go a long way to providing an insight into this once powerful and highly developed culture. But while we may marvel at the ingenuity of their aqueducts and viaducts, the splendour of their amphitheatres and the beauty of their mosaics and ornamentation, what do we know about the daily lives of the people who designed and built them? How did they furnish and light their houses? What did they eat and wear? What actually went on in the amphitheatres, gymnasia and baths? The authors have used the architectural achievements of the Romans as a basis for unravelling the intricacies of this society. 

Cultuurfilosofische causerie over aspecten van de taal.

Nadine Gordimer began her writing life at a relatively young age. In 1991, that life received the ultimate recognition when she was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. In this volume, Gordimer, who has been described by her peers as a formidable visitor from the future, the leviathan of South African letters and almost always as a gifted writer with extraordinary powers of observation, is paid homage by fellow writers from South Africa and other parts of the world. The book comprises readings, tributes, fiction, poetry, interviews and photographs which engage directly and indirectly with Gordimer's work and her still unfolding legacy.

When Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun's ground-breaking anthology After Ovid (also Faber) was published in 1995, Hughes's three contributions to the collective effort were nominated by most critics as outstanding. He had shown that rare translator's gift for providing not just an accurate account of the original, but one so thoroughly imbued with his own qualities that it was as if Latin and English poet were somehow the same person. Tales from Ovid, which went on to win the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, continued the project of recreation with 24 passages, including the stories of Phaeton, Actaeon, Echo and Narcissus, Procne, Midas and Pyramus and Thisbe. In them, Hughes's supreme narrative and poetic skills combine to produce a book that stands, alongside his Crow and Gaudete, as an inspired addition to the myth-making of our time.

Literatuurwetenschappelijke essays over Nederlandse dichters.

Walkers well-focused, clearly written essays demonstrate the conformity and the challenges to conventional expectations defining 'women poets.' Walker's work makes a significant contribution to an often neglected area of American literary history. --Library Journal

Based on close reading and explication of the texts, Walker brings fresh insights to each poet. --Choice

... Walker has devised an original analysis that puts a new spin on the works and lives of these poets. --New Directions for Women

Concentrating on Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale, Elinor Wylie, H.D., Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Louise Bogan, Walker analyzes the highly stylized self-images--from Lowell's androgyne to Millay's body-conscious romantic--projected by these women who attempted to renegotiate the terms upon which they could function successfully as poets.