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Title Modern Dutch studies : essays in honour of Professor Peter King on the occasion of his retirement / edited by M.J. Wintle ; co-editor Paul Vincent.

Publication Info. London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Bloomsbury academic collections. History: European history.
Bloomsbury academic collections. History. European history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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, 1890-193416 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.
Summary 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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Subject King, Peter, 1922-
King, Peter, 1922-
Dutch philology.
Dutch philology.
Netherlands -- History.
Netherlands.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Festschriften.
Festschriften.
Added Author Wintle, Michael J., editor.
Vincent, Paul (Paul F.), editor.
Other Form: Original 147424145X 9781474241458 (OCoLC)903510590
ISBN 9781474241465 electronic book
1474241468 electronic book
9780485113587
147424145X
9781474241458
0485113589