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Literary history in the Low Countries, textual scholarship, history of the book, literary documentation.

Theodore Van Ryswyck (1811-1849) and Literary Romanticism in Antwerp. 01/10/2011 - 30/09/2013

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This project focuses on the function of literature in the modern nation-building process from a literary perspective. The subject of research is the poetry of Theodoor Van Ryswyck: an important figure in the romantic school of Antwerp and a transition figure of a Belgian to a Flemish cultural nationalism. He's the author of a various and, with respect to the content, predominantly political oeuvre. The methodological approach of this research is twofold: the corpus is textually analysed and is also situated in his historical, political, cultural and socio-institutional context. The hypothesis is that the poetry of Van Ryswyck contributed to the process of Flemish (sub)nation-building and identity-creation, e.g. by linking political issues to ethical and moral questions.

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Poetry and cultural politics in Flanders in the nineteenth century: Theodoor van Ryswyck (1811-1849) and literary romanticism in Antwerp. 01/10/2009 - 30/09/2011

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This project focuses on the function of literature in the modern nation-building process from a literary perspective. The subject of research is the poetry of Theodoor Van Ryswyck: an important figure in the romantic school of Antwerp and a transition figure of a Belgian to a Flemish cultural nationalism. He's the author of a various and, with respect to the content, predominantly political oeuvre. The methodological approach of this research is twofold: the corpus is textually analysed and is also situated in his historical, political, cultural and socio-institutional context. The hypothesis is that the poetry of Van Ryswyck contributed to the process of Flemish (sub)nation-building and identity-creation, e.g. by linking political issues to ethical and moral questions.

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`Between folk song and classical song': the song in the pre-Benoit period (ca. 1830-ca. 1860), a textually analytical, literary-historical and musical-historical analysis of the collection of songs: library of the Royal Flemish Conservatory of Music. 01/01/2008 - 31/12/2009

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The aim of the project is to unlock and valorise the Flemish classical songs of the pre-Benoit period. (ca. 1830 ¿ ca. 1860) from the library of the Royal Flemish Conservatory of Music. The songs are studied by a multidisciplinary team, from literary history, music history and implementation practice. This diverse approach makes it possible for the genre to be situated in a wide cultural-historical context, in which the basic research of Dutch literary history is combined with the research in the area of music history, music analysis and the implementation practice.

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Dutch literature and the literary field in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands 1815-1830: interaction and differentiation. 01/01/2007 - 31/12/2010

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The project aims at a research of the literary interaction between the North and South regions during the period of United Kingdom of then Netherlands (1815-1830) in which the government pursued a policy of linguistic and cultural integration. A sytematic research will be carried out of the production, distribution and reception of literature in this period, with special attention for interaction and diferentiation in the different areas of literary communication (literary works as well as publishers, reviews, critics and public)

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"The lyrical drama between French Vaudeville and Flemish Opera": a textual analysis and an analysis of the literary and musical history of the lyrical dramas from the library of the Royal Flemish Conservatory. 01/01/2007 - 31/12/2008

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The project intends to unlock and valorize a collection of lyrical dramas of the nineteenth century, kept in the library of the Royal Flemish Conservatory. The research on the lyrical dramas is carried out by a multidisciplinary team; the studies originate from literary history, music history and dramaturgy. This diverse approach makes it possible to situate the genre within a wide cultural and historical context, as a predecessor of the Flemish opera and as a building stone for the construction of a Flemish identity. The project results in a day of workshops, a try-out and a publication.

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Word and music: a culturalhistoric and music analysis of the collection of musical compositions on texts of Gezelle at the library of the Royal Music Conservatory . 01/01/2006 - 31/12/2007

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The project aims at making accessible the collection of compositions on texts of Guido Gezelle in the library of the Royal Flemish Music Conservatory. In addition to an inventory and bio- bibliography of the composers, the project includes a musical analysis of the compositions along with references of the interpretations to their cultural-historical context. Finally the project is to result in a series of concerts presenting a selection from the compositions.

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The political poetry of Guido Gezelle. 01/01/2004 - 31/12/2007

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The project intends the thorough study and start of a contextual edition of the political poetry by Guido Gezelle (1830-1899). The set of poems constitutes a valuable comprehensive part of Gezelle's complete poetry, but was up to now not included in the edition of Gezelle's complete poetical oeuvre. The reconstruction of the corpus, the contextual study and the annotated edition of the political poetry will generate relevant new insights about the nature of Gezelle's poetics.

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Cooperation to a project of the Nederlandse Taalunie for a new History of the Netherlans literature; the project-leader being co-author of a volume on the romantics (19th century) 01/01/2000 - 31/12/2004

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Co-author of a 7 volume new History of the Netherlands Literature (Dutch and Flemish) which will be realized in the period 1998-2003 by nine authors from Holland and Belgium and an editorial commimittee under the authority of the Nederlandse Taalunie (Netherlands Language Union) in The Hague. Volume 5 on the 19th century will be written in colaboration with Wim van den Berg (University of Amsterdam). The project is set up to become an actualized synthetic standard work based on a functional and contextualisng method. It aims at a scholarly as well as a broad reading public.

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The Guido Gezelle Archives: opening up and valorization. Inventory of the complete corpus of poetry manuscripts and letters with an archival text edition of the correspondence. 01/01/2000 - 31/12/2003

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Historical-critical edition of the posthumous and miscellaneous lyrical poetry by Guido Gezelle 01/01/2000 - 31/12/2003

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The historical-critical edition of the posthumous and miscellaneous lyrical poetry of Guido Gezelle (1830-1899) aims at the critical edition of the reading text of the poems, an apparatus with the different versions and the historical development of the texts, word explanation and commentary on the genesis of the poems

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01/05/1998 - 31/05/1998

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    The sermons of Guido Gezelle: a textual and contextual analysis 01/10/1997 - 17/09/2001

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    The Gezelle-archives (Openbare Bibliotheek De Biekorf, Brugge) contain a large collection of unedited sermon manuscripts by Guido Gezelle. These sermons will be the object of a thorough and versatile investigation. We will be dealing mainly with the biographical relevance of these texts, the connections between the sermons and Gezelle's poetry, the way in which the sermons are an application of sacred rhetoric and the intertextual quality of the sermons.

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      The Frontiers of Modernism. 01/01/1995 - 31/12/1998

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      Terminological and methodological elaboration of the notion Modernism, consisting in a series of case studies of modernist authors and in comparative approaches, with special attention for the relation between literature and other arts, included film; special focus on the development of literary theory and on the emerging sciences of the humanities.

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        Preprint edition of the correspondance of Guido Gezelle 01/06/1991 - 30/09/1993

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        Inventory and edition of the unedited correspondance of the Dutch (Flemish) poet Guido Gezelle (1830-1899). Collection of the scattered source material (edited an unedited letters by, to and about Gezelle) and outset of its edition in a preparatory stage : description of the material, text edition and variorum edition

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          Aspects of intertextuality. G. Gezelle and the South Dutch literature of the 17th century. 01/10/1987 - 30/09/1997

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          This research deals with the significance of the South Dutch literature of the 17th century for the poetry of G. Gezelle, a Flemish poet.

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