The Low Countries. Jaargang 22(2014)– [tijdschrift] The Low Countries– Auteursrechtelijk beschermd Inhoudsopgave ‘On Being Asked For a War Poem’ Luc Devoldere | Chief Editor The Flanders Poppy as Lieu de Mémoire [Nicholas J. Saunders] Commemoration in Stone and in Silence The Menin Gate and the Last Post Ceremony as Lieu de Mémoire [Dominiek Dendooven] They Went with Songs to Battle Songs as Lieux de Mémoire of the Great War [Georgina Boyes] In Flanders Fields The Landscape of War as Lieu de Mémoire [Piet Chielens] Violence and Legitimacy Occupied Belgium, 1914-1918 [Sophie de Schaepdrijver] Belgian Refugees in Britain 1914-1919 [Christophe Declercq] An Extract from Across the Channel By Annelies Beck The Belgian-Dutch Border During the First World War A Second Belgian Front? [Alex Vanneste] Belgium's Finest Hour? King Albert and Queen Elisabeth in Wartime [Luc Vandeweyer] The Great War That Largely Passed Us by in the Netherlands [M.C. Brands] Three Questions That Do Not Go Away The Netherlands and the Shoah [Maarten Asscher] Bodybuilders in Haarlem Startling Aspects of Cornelis van Haarlem's Art [Ilja Veldman] Writing is Gilding The Monumental Oeuvre of A.F.Th. van der Heijden [Arnold Heumakers] Extract from Falling Parents By A.F.Th. van der Heijden The Lost Highway Journey along the Kortrijksesteenweg [Derek Blyth] Misanthropes, Boring Assholes and Amoral Winners The Literary Work of Herman Koch [Jeroen Vullings] An Extract from Summer House with Swimming Pool By Herman Koch Thanksgiving Came Via Leiden The Influence of Holland on the Pilgrim Fathers [Dirk Vandenberghe] Director of Characters The Sculptures of Folkert de Jong [David Stroband] The Highs and Lows of Hendrik Conscience [Theo Hermans] An Extract from Veva, or the War of the Peasants By Hendrik Conscience The Decline of the Belgian Car Industry [Ewald Pironet] d = f (a-s) Wim Crouwel, a timeless 20th Century Designer [Geert Setola] Flemish Film Beyond the Borders of Flanders? [Erik Martens] Futile Scribbles in the Margins of History The Literary Work of F. Springer [Ad Zuiderent] An Extract from Bougainville, A Memoir By F. Springer The Sculpture of Oscar Jespers in an International Context From Wieske Baseleer to Little Leda [José Boyens] Nijmegen Revived From Roman Settlement to Havana on the Waal [Daan Cartens] All Said Before Menno Wigman's Ennui [Piet Gerbrandy] Five Poems By Menno Wigman Over Exposure The Art of Erik van Lieshout [Frank van der Ploeg] Population Shrinkage in the Netherlands From a Cold to a Warm Approach [Gert-Jan Hospers] Hand Ballet and Reflection On the Work of Karel Dierickx [Stefan Hertmans] The Everyday is Good The Novels of Koen Peeters [Tomas Vanheste] Two Extracts from Great European Novel By Koen Peeters An Extract from A Thousand Hills By Koen Peeters The Difference Between Language and Dialect in the Netherlands and Flanders [Marc van Oostendorp] Chronicle Film and Theatre The Golden Key to Happiness Alex van Warmerdam's ‘Borgman’ Purveyors to the Court of Modern Variety The Ashton Brothers History Kaiser Turned Woodcutter Huis Doorn, Home of the Exiled Wilhelm II (1920-1941) The American Dream in Antwerp The Red Star Line Museum Americans in Occupied Belgium 1914-1918 The Gazette van Detroit Celebrates its 100th Anniversary Pinkster in New York Language A Biography of the Dutch Language Literature Cees Nooteboom as Nomadic Writer A Poet in Love with Words Lucebert Translated into English Music Minimalist Grandeur The Paradoxical Pop Music of Balthazar Caro Emerald Gladdens Our Hearts A Diva Without the Whims Politics The Power of the ‘Intermediate Sphere’ The Passage to Europe From Plato to the European Union The Road to Democracy Science and Philosophy More Radical than Spinoza Adriaan Koerbagh (1633-1669) Marc Van Montagu, Winner of the World Food Prize Society A Cassandra in the City Joris Luyendijk Visual Arts The ‘Commedia dell'Arte’ of Peter Vos Contributors Translators