Publications
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Minoes, Minnie, Minu en andere katse streken. De internationale receptie van Annie M.G. Schmidts Minoes
(2017)
This volume focuses on the international reception of Annie M.G. Schmidt’s Minoes, the most translated Dutch children’s book. The authors investigate the reception and adaptations in the Netherlands and Flanders, the French ...
Jan Walravens en het experiment
(2011)
Jan Walravens (1920-1965) played a central role in Flemish literature as he introduced and facilitated literary experiments after the second world war. He was a leading essayist and literary critic, who wrote thousands of ...
Terra Incognita. Globalisering, ecologie en rechtvaardige duurzaamheid
(2006)
Despite all attempts by many governments in the world to ascribe to the Holy Grail of ‘sustainable development’, Ecosystem Earth is confronted with a gargantuan sustainability crisis. The West has seduced the rest of the ...
De spade in de dijk. Waterbeheer en rurale samenleving in de Vlaamse kustvlakte (1280-1580)
(2009)
The Spade in de Dijk is the first synthesis on the organisation of water management in Coastal Flanders during the later Middle Ages. Based on the unique archival evidence produced by local water boards (wateringen), large ...
Een monument voor het land. Overheidsstatistiek in België, 1795-1870
(2008)
In A monument to the country. Official statistics in Belgium, 1795-1870, Nele Bracke unravels why and how the Belgian state and its predecessors organized and developed an official statistical apparatus in order to collect ...
Chapter Yutaka
(2023)
Architecture
Un double compromis. Enjeux et débats relatifs à l’enseignement universitaire en Belgique au XIXe siècle
(2006)
This book reveals the history of discussions regarding university education in Belgium, from the abolishment of the old university of Leuven in 1797 to the promulgation of the laws on higher education in 1890 and 1891. ...
Ethiek van de lectuur. Frans Kellendonk en de (h)erkenning van de andersheid
(2012)
To what extent is it possible for a literary text to contribute to the ethical development of its reader? This book tries to provide readers with a nuanced answer to this question, as well as with methodological premises ...
Het anti-theater van Antonin Artaud. Een onderzoek naar de veralgemeende artistieke transgressie, toegepast op het werk van Romeo Castellucci en de Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio
(2008)
What does it mean to violate the law on a theatrical stage? This is the central question in the following examination of modern theatre, beginning with the avant-garde, but also including the contemporary and iconoclastic ...
Les nouvelles voies du comparatisme
(2010)
Which recent methodological innovations have occurred in the field of comparative literature? What are the critical paradigms behind the practices of comparative research today? These questions are the starting point of ...