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Document Details : Title: 'Rozentuinen' of 'bergkruinen' Subtitle: Karel van de Woestijne in de kritiek van Joris Eeckhout en Urbain van de Voorde Author(s): VERSTRAETEN, Pieter Journal: Spiegel der Letteren Volume: 50 Issue: 4 Date: 2008 Pages: 463-486 DOI: 10.2143/SDL.50.4.2033503 Abstract : The present article investigates a rather small, but significant section of the critical reception of the work of the late symbolist Flemish poet Karel van de Woestijne. My focus is on the references to and views on Van de Woestijne’s work in the critical discourse of Joris Eeckhout and Urbain van de Voorde, two major (Catholic) critics in the Interwar Period in Flanders, who have played a substantial role in the construction of the image of the poet. The case study reveals that, although Eeckhout and Van de Voorde share the same poetics, their conceptions of the internal structure of the oeuvre differ considerably. Subsequently, I point out that these differences can be related to the critics’ diverging methodological and epistemological presuppositions, which effect both the stylistic properties and the dominant patterns of thought of their criticism. These observations, finally, lead to some suggestions for the redirection of the poetics research paradigm within Dutch literature studies. |
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