This comparative volume advances an argument about the sustained contribu-tion of migrants to Europe’s literatures, social cultures, and arts.Firstly, those named most often by others as “migrants” do not represent a sudden, unprecedented crisis, as pundits and politicians continue to claim, with successive waves of migration. Instead, people arriving in the Spanish enclaves in Morocco, l…
In the same year he published his first Dutch poetry in the influential magazine De nieuwe gids (The New Guide). The journal, founded in 1885, was dominated at this period by the poet Willem Kloos (1859–1938), who used its pages to proclaim a radical aestheticism and advocate literature that was both non-sectarian and non-utilitarian. Poetry, Kloos famously asserted, was ‘the supremely indi…
Guido Gezelle, born in Bruges in 1830, left a varied œuvre as a man of letters, journalist, translator and populariser. But it is mainly as a poet that he occupies an illustrious position in the history of Dutch literature. He is undoubtedly the most innovative and original Flemish poet between 1680 and 1880. With his exceptional lyrical poetry he was some twenty years ahead of the renewal mov…
BUKU ini memperlihatkan, perempuan priayi dan perempuan keluarga keraton di Jawa Tengah selatan, setidaknya sampai akhir Perang Jawa (1825-1830), menikmati kesempatan bertindak atau mengambil inisiatif pribadi yang jauh lebih luas daripada saudari-saudari mereka yang hidup di akhir abad ke-19, di zaman Raden Ajeng Kartini (1879-1904). Jejak mereka bahkan menembus bidang yang dianggap sebagai du…
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