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Document Details : Title: 'In gesprek met de vorigen'. Subtitle: Literatuur als geschiedschrijving Author(s): PIETERS, Jürgen Journal: Spiegel der Letteren Volume: 44 Issue: 3 Date: 2002 Pages: 259-288 DOI: 10.2143/SDL.44.3.361 Abstract : In the first half of this article, I attempt to trace back Stephen Greenblatt’s exhortation to consider the practices of literary and cultural history as a conversation with the dead to the writings of Machiavelli and Philip Sidney. In the text’s second half, I add to their renowned company the name of Constantijn Huygens, whose reflections on the mimetic powers of artistic portraits throw an interesting light on the topic which Greenblatt made so famous. |
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