Publications
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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 ...
Allemaal beestjes. Mortaliteit en morbiditeit in Vlaanderen, 18de-20ste eeuw
(2006)
This book treats the spectacular rise in life expectancy during the last three centuries. It is the first study to bring together both published and unpublished material about the history of the health of Belgian men and ...
Juigchen in den adel der menschelijke natuur. Het verhevene in de Nederlanden (1770-1830)
(2011)
A storm at sea, hanging cliffs, volcano eruptions at night, threatening thunderclouds over a desolate mountain landscape: all these phenomena incite both fear and pleasure, astonishment and fascination. We call them sublime, ...
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 ...
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 ...
In het spoor van Emile Zola. De narratologische code(s) van het Europese naturalisme
(2006)
For the first time since Chevrels seminal monography Le naturalisme: étude d’un mouvement littéraire international (1982), this study presents an encompassing approach to European naturalism. By means of a logical theoretical ...
Dynamisch Inter(- en Trans)disciplinair TaalOnderzoek. De nieuwe taalwetenschappen
(2006)
Language research is currently in a state of flux. The phenomenon of language is not merely the topic of investigation in linguistics, it is examined by a multitude of scholars with different scientific backgrounds. In ...
Negen muzen, tien geboden. Historische en methodologische gevalstudies over de interactie tussen literatuur en ethiek
(2005)
Literature traditionally holds a special place in society. This fact can be ascribed especially to literature’s unique capability to urge its audience and readers to allow a voice other than their own to resound within. ...
Ieder zijn eigen Arnon Grunberg. Vertaling, promotie en receptie in Italië, Spanje, Catalonië, Portugal en Roemenië
(2012)
This third volume of Lage Landen Studies offers a glimpse of recent international and internationalizing trends in Dutch Studies. It presents a comparative view of the virtually synchronic dynamics of the translation, ...
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. ...
Tijding en Tendens
(2009)
The central theme of this issue is the singularity of general and comparative literary theory in the Low Countries. How do they combine insights from neighboring linguistic areas, more specifically the dominant French, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bakhtin’s Theory of the Literary Chronotope: Reflections, Applications, Perspectives
(2010)
This edited volume is the first scholarly tome exclusively dedicated to Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the literary chronotope. This concept, initially developed in the 1930s and used as a frame of reference throughout Bakhtin’s ...
Voicing in Contrast. Acquiring a Second Language Laryngeal System
(2010)
Drawing on both rule-based and constraint-based approaches, Voicing in Contrast examines typological differences in the laryngeal systems of Dutch and English and investigates the extent to which native speakers of Dutch ...
Nederlands in het perspectief van uitspraakverwerving en contrastieve taalkunde
(2011)
Nederlands in het perspectief van uitspraakverwerving en contrastieve taalkunde (“Dutch from the point of view of pronunciation acquisition and contrastive linguistics”) gives an overview of linguistic research carried out ...
Hermeneutiek in veelvoud
(2011)
What will be the future role of hermeneutics in literary theory? Can we shape the future of hermeneutics by going back to its tradition and by looking at the way hermeneutics is relevant in other disciplines? The new issue ...
Van Siska van Rosemael tot Max Havelaar
(2021)
Migration of literature across regional and national borders is a thriving research topic. This issue of LLS is the first general overview of the reception of Dutch-language literature in Czech translation in the period ...
Luisterrijk der letteren
(2019)
Luisterrijk der letteren offers an overview of the intensive interfaces between the literary field and radio in the Low Countries. The subsequent chapters treat original radio plays of Walter van den Broeck and Ivo Michiels, ...
Oproer in de letteren
(2021)
Our collective memory still associates the sixties with protest culture, but the legacy of the demonstrations is a topic of discussion to date. There is no shortage of myths about the sixties, but many facts and details ...
Vluchtlijnen van de poëzie
(2022)
In Vluchtlijnen van de poëzie, Mettes' experimental poetry and political essayism are the starting point for a creative reading and (re)interpretation of recent poetry history. The book takes the reader from Mettes to ...
Woekering en weigering
(2018)
Jacq Vogelaar was the most radical champion of experimental form in post-war Dutch literature. After his debut in 1965, he published a series of novels in which he progressively pushed the dismantling of the traditional ...
Mutsaers en andere dieren
(2023)
Mutsaers en andere dieren is a literary study on the issue of animals in the creative oeuvre by Dutch writer and artist Charlotte Mutsaers. How is an animal perspective portrayed in Mutsaers's art? What cultural meanings ...
Chapter T+ designers
(2023)
Industrial / commercial art & design
Chapter Pulse approach
(2023)
Industrial / commercial art & design
Chapter Research on design sketch from different disciplines
(2023)
Industrial / commercial art & design
Connectivity and creativity in times of conflict
(2023)
This book contains academic papers and posters of the Cumulus Antwerp conference, held in Antwerp on 12-15 April 2023. The Cumulus community, designers, artists, and educators were invited to submit contributions on how ...
Chapter Bibliometrics in circular design visual representation
(2023)
Industrial / commercial art & design
Chapter Care strategies to strengthen heritage structures as a community asset during the pandemic
(2023)
Transport: general interest
Chapter FlavourGame
(2023)
Industrial / commercial art & design
Chapter More-than-human ways of thinking through felting wool
(2023)
Industrial / commercial art & design
Chapter Project Hope
(2023)
Transport: general interest
Chapter Content management system in mapping movable objects
(2023)
Industrial / commercial art & design
Chapter Inclusion in recruiting
(2023)
Industrial / commercial art & design
Chapter Values, design and educational project
(2023)
Industrial / commercial art & design
Chapter Inclusivity as a hype phenomenon in advertising
(2023)
Industrial / commercial art & design
Chapter Implementation of design culture as a strategic innovation through design-oriented industrial conversion and product diversification
(2023)
Industrial / commercial art & design
Chapter An overview of design suggestions for contemporary theatrical VR productions
(2023)
Industrial / commercial art & design
Chapter Polymath interpolation for open-ended design, exploring artificial nesting design for the southern ground hornbill
(2023)
Transport: general interest