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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
Published London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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Series Bloomsbury academic collections. History: European history
Bloomsbury academic collections. History. European history.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject King, Peter, 1922-
SUBJECT King, Peter, 1922- fast
Subject Dutch philology.
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
Dutch philology
SUBJECT Netherlands -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090996
Subject Netherlands
Genre/Form Festschriften
History
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Wintle, Michael J., editor.
Vincent, Paul (Paul F.), editor
ISBN 9781474241465
1474241468