Modern Dutch Studies : Essays in Honour of Professor Peter King on the Occasion of His Retirement.
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Modern Dutch Studies: An Introduction -- Part I: Language and Translation -- 2 On Translating Proper Names, with reference to De Witte and Max Havelaar -- 3 Sir John Bowring (1792-1832) as a Translator and Publicist of Dutch Literature and Culture -- 4 The Germanic Glory-Hole: On Translating the Poetry of P. C. Boutens -- 5 How Difficult are the Phrasal Verbs for Dutch Learners of English? -- 6 Dutch CALL at Hull: An Evaluation of Computer-Assisted Language Learning -- Part II: Literature -- 7 Geertruyd van Oosten and 'Het daghet in den Oosten' -- 8 The Biblical Plays of the Rhetoricians and the Pageants of Oudenaarde and Lille -- 9 Old High German in Ghent in 1549 -- 10 Criminal Biographies or Picaresque Novels? An Investigation of the Dutch Translations of The English Rogue and Moll Flanders -- 11 Anglo-Saxon Impressions: P. N. van Eyck, J. C. Bloem, A. Roland Hoist and English Poetry -- 12 A Closer Look at M. Nijhoff's 'Langs een wereld' ('Passing worlds') -- 13 The Significance of Proper Nouns in Bordewijk's Bint -- 14 A Faulknerian Device in Dutch Narrative Prose -- Part III: Social Sciences -- 15 The Adoption and Rejection of Elements of Marxism in the Dutch Trade Union Movement, 1890-1934 -- 16 Ideas for a New Regime in the Netherlands after the Defeat of 1940 -- 17 The Abortive Dutch Assault on European Tariffs, 1950-2 -- 18 Political Culture in Belgium -- 19 Social Development in the Netherlands in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Review of Historical Research since 1970 -- Part IV: The Visual Arts -- 20 Godfried Schalcken's Allegory of Virtue and Riches -- 21 Theo van Doesburg: 'Art/Criticism' -- Notes -- Bibliography: The Principal Publications of P. K. King -- Index.
These essays by leading scholars explore the integration of language and literature study in the fields of art history and social sciences, exploring as a result the scope and nature of the discipline of Dutch Studies today.
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Dutch philology. King, Peter, 1922-. Netherlands -- History.