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oapen-20.500.12657-350932022-04-26T11:17:11Z Rhetoric, Rhetoricians and Poets Spies, Marijke Duits, Henk van Strien, Ton cultuur and geschiedenis dutch and flemish literature nederlandse en vlaamse literatuur culture and history bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History The Netherlandish rhetoricians of the sixteenth century have, in the course of the last decades, shed their image of third-rate poets who, lacking all sense of true beauty, were capable only of pompous verbosity and a shallow manipulation of form. The new scholarly assessment has also shed light on the role they played in the cultural and literary life of their time, and it now appears that many of their dramas are well worth staging. Once the sixteenth century was freed from the stigma of being the "preparatory phase" for the Golden Age, the way was clear for thorough studies of the literature produced during the most turbulent period in the history of the Low Countries. This volume contains essays which deal with works written not only in Dutch, but also in French and in New Latin, with topics ranging from the effects of poetic principles on literary practice to the use of poetry as a means for improving society and developing the individual. The unifying thread in these studies is the pivotal importance of rhetoric in all forms of literary expression. 2010-12-31 23:55:55 2019-12-10 14:46:32 2020-04-01T15:33:23Z 2020-04-01T15:33:23Z 1999 book 340255 OCN: 607724585 945782537 9789053564004 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/35093 eng application/pdf n/a 340255.pdf Amsterdam University Press 10.5117/9789053564004 10.5117/9789053564004 dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a 9789053564004 173 open access
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The Netherlandish rhetoricians of the sixteenth century have, in the course of the last decades, shed their image of third-rate poets who, lacking all sense of true beauty, were capable only of pompous verbosity and a shallow manipulation of form. The new scholarly assessment has also shed light on the role they played in the cultural and literary life of their time, and it now appears that many of their dramas are well worth staging. Once the sixteenth century was freed from the stigma of being the "preparatory phase" for the Golden Age, the way was clear for thorough studies of the literature produced during the most turbulent period in the history of the Low Countries. This volume contains essays which deal with works written not only in Dutch, but also in French and in New Latin, with topics ranging from the effects of poetic principles on literary practice to the use of poetry as a means for improving society and developing the individual. The unifying thread in these studies is the pivotal importance of rhetoric in all forms of literary expression.
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