The Low Countries. Jaargang 2

 

Inhoudsopgave

Brussels, City of the Coming Century

‘I Like Being Naughty!’ The Work of Annie M.G. Schmidt

Three Poems by Annie M.G. Schmidt

Five Times Two Picture-Poems

Between Theatre and Cinema The Films of Alex van Warmerdam

‘Read me in full or not at all’ The Poetry of Leonard Nolens

Four Poems by Leonard Nolens

Spinoza and the Golden Age of the Dutch Republic

Euthanasia in the Netherlands Facts and Moral Arguments

Adventuress in the Thickets of Postmodernism A Reflection on the Work of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker

‘Nothing helps’ The Poems of Hans Faverey

Six Poems by Hans Faverey

Middle Dutch Literature as a Mirror of European Culture

‘The finest painter in the whole Christian world’ Hans Memling and His Art

The Unfinished Work of Art The Paintings of René Daniëls

Babel behind the Dikes Living in the Bijlmermeer

Myth and Reality in the Human Geography of the Netherlands

The Wadden Sea: A Special Area - Specially Protected?

Gardening in the Netherlands

A Park for Modern Art The Middelheim Open-Air Sculpture Museum in Antwerp

‘An Utrecht lady's charms’ Belle van Zuylen / Isabelle de Charrière

Writing as an Act of Revolt and Emancipation The Work of Monika van Paemel

Extract from The First Stone by Monika van Paemel

Desert Island Dutch Imaginary Voyages, Adventures and Robinsonades in the Low Countries

The Art of Evocation The Symbolist Movement in Belgium

James Ensor, Pioneer of Modern European Art

A Master of Word and Image Marten Toonder and the Bumble Comic Strips

Extract from The Top Dogs by Marten Toonder

Woman in Blue Reading a Letter An Approach to Viewing Vermeer

A Naïve Engineer Panamarenko's Art

‘A sacred duty’ The Holocaust in Dutch Historiography

An Unfinished Chapter The Second World War and the Holocaust in Dutch Literature

A Unity of Opposites The Paradoxical Oeuvre of Harry Mulisch

Extract from The Assault by Harry Mulisch

Performing Early Music in the Low Countries

Ger van Elk Was Here

The Terrible Beauty of the Twentieth Century A Portrait of Rem Koolhaas

From Gazettiers to Newspaper Groups The Press in Flanders

Gold Leather and Lead Letters Antwerp's Plantin-Moretus Museum

‘Like a doctor, without either love or loathing’ The Work of Henry van de Velde

The Netherlands Antilles and Surinam, Treasure-Chests of Dutch-Language Literature

The Art of Glass

Chronicle Architecture An Impressive Home for Dutch Architecture

Three Notable Restorations

Cultural Policy Dutch and English Ears

The Elephant Presently in My Keeping Publishing Translated Literature in the UK

Dutch-Speaking Culture in the United States

Dutch Cultural Policy A European Appraisal

Film and Theatre Kaaitheater A House of Many Rooms

Dogtroep Nomads of the Wild Theatre.

Josse de Pauw Actor and Author

Oeroeg and the Dutch-East Indian Trauma

History Flanders Fields, Somewhere in France

A Pictorial History of the Grand' Place in Brussels

Gerard Mercator and Cartography in Flanders

The Story of a Metropolis

The Dutch Church in London Past and Present

A Useful Synthesis on Medieval Flanders

The Battle of Arnhem 17-26 September 1944

Language ‘Safe, for the time being’ The Dutch Language and the Language Policy of the European Union

The Dictionary of the Dutch Language A Monument to the Culture of the Netherlands and Flanders

Pleasant Summer Days in Breukelen, Diepenbeek and Ghent

The Dutch Tradition in English Language Studies

Literature The Netherlands Literature Museum and Documentation Centre Where Readers Become Spectators

A Literary Peep Show

Back to the Netherlands

The Self and the Other The Novels of Marcel Möring

Music The Alamire Foundation International Centre for the Study of Music in the Low Countries

Otto Ketting ‘The good notes in our age’

BIMhuis A Concert Venue for Improvised Music

Science An Institute for the Promotion of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Tropical Medicine in Antwerp

Society Open-Mindedness in Flanders

Friesland Too Level-headed for Absolute Individuality

The Story of De Nederlandse Courant in Canada

Feminists in a Church

Visual Arts Dawn of the Golden Age

Art in the Brussels Metro

Painting on the Couch

Bart van der Leck Architectural Painter and Fine Artist

The Tulip 400 Years in the Netherlands

Bibliography of Dutch-Language Publications translated into English (traced in 1993)

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