Georges Wildemeersch emeritus occasional assignment

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History, analysis and interpretation of modern Dutch literature.

The Last of the Modernists? Paul De Vree (1909-1982); an interdisciplinary encounter. 01/01/2010 - 31/12/2011

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Taking his personal, interdisciplinary archive as the point of departure, the activities and the network of poet, critic, publisher, artist and catalysator Paul De Vree (1909-1982) is being mapped and visualised for the first time. Attention will be given to the (this) archive and its role for the memory of the avant-garde, visual poetry as a crossover strategy of the neo-avant-garde, the position of postwar Antwerp as a breeding ground for avant-garde initiatives and De Vree as a 'missing link' between the historical avant-garde of the twenties and the neo-avant-garde of the sixties. This interdisciplinary project combines approaches from the history of literature, the history of art and the history of theatre, and will lead to an exhibition, a monograph and an interdisciplinary symposium with proceedings.

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Hugo Claus and Commitment (1960-1970). 01/01/2008 - 31/12/2011

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This is a fundamental research project financed by the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO). The project was subsidized after selection by the FWO-expert panel.

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"Gij viel in korrelen uiteen" : fragmentation and modernism in the work of Gerrit Achterberg. 01/10/2003 - 30/09/2005

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In twentieth-century Dutch literary history, the Dutch poet Gerrit Achterberg is mostly considered as an isolated social and literary case. It is the goal of this research to show that this is unjust. By means of an examination of the fragmentation theme in Achterberg's poetry ' a theme which can in most cases be associated to Achterberg's interpretation of modern physics and more particularly of modern thermodynamics ' Achterberg's poetry will be characterized as a pre-eminent example of modernist poetry. Especially in an international context, there are parallels to be found between Achterberg's poetry and the poetry of other important modernist poets.

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The complete bibliograhy of Hugo Claus. 01/10/2002 - 31/12/2004

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The editing of two contextualized bibliographies of the work of Hugo Claus. The fIrst publication (2003) contains a list of random publications, introduced by an analysis of Claus' publication stratageme and completed by an edition of uncollected texts. The second publication (2004), supported by the first, contains a list of all of Claus' book publications, complemented by the story of his relation to the publishing house as a literary institution and to the phenomenon of the book.

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Mimesis and Autobiography in "The Sorrow of Belgium" (Hugo Claus): a game of construction and deconstruction. 01/10/2001 - 30/09/2003

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This project deals with the constructive and deconstructive processes at work in Hugo Claus' novel The sorrow of Belgium. In so doing, the study wants to elucidate the modernist and postmodernist characteristics of the novel. In practica, the analysis focuses upon three layers of the text: the realistic story, the religiously inspired network of symbols behing the story, and the text as an autonomous, formal and literary discourse. The processes whereby meaning is constructed and deconstructed operate on these three levels. To study this layered process, I make use of a layered framework that combines a classica! Freudian view with structuralist Lévi-Strauss) and post-structuralist (Derrida) insights.

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    "Gij viel in korrelen uiteen" : fragmentation and modernism in the work of Gerrit Achterberg. 01/10/2001 - 30/09/2003

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    In twentieth-century Dutch literary history, the Dutch poet Gerrit Achterberg is mostly considered as an isolated social and literary case. It is the goal of this research to show that this is unjust. By means of an examination of the fragmentation theme in Achterberg's poetry ' a theme which can in most cases be associated to Achterberg's interpretation of modern physics and more particularly of modern thermodynamics ' Achterberg's poetry will be characterized as a pre-eminent example of modernist poetry. Especially in an international context, there are parallels to be found between Achterberg's poetry and the poetry of other important modernist poets.

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      Inquiry into the status of the biographical facts, i.e. the family history and the youth, in Hugo Claus literary work and poetics. 01/01/2000 - 31/12/2001

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      The project aims at the disclosure of the family history and the youth of the author, Hugo Claus, within the framework of an investigation into the integration of biographical facts in his literary work and into the importance, the position and the integration in his poetics.

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        The Sorrow of Belgium (Hugo Claus): a game of construction and deconstruction 01/10/1999 - 30/09/2001

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        This project deals with the constructive and deconstructive processes at work in Hugo Claus' novel The sorrow of Belgium. In so doing, the study wants to elucidate the modernist and postmodernist characteristics of the novel. In practica, the analysis focuses upon three layers of the text: the realistic story, the religiously inspired network of symbols behing the story, and the text as an autonomous, formal and literary discourse. The processes whereby meaning is constructed and deconstructed operate on these three levels. To study this layered process, I make use of a layered framework that combines a classica! Freudian view with structuralist Lévi-Strauss) and post-structuralist (Derrida) insights.

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          Open up the literary work of Hugo Claus till approximately 1970, including his essays, articles and letters, with close attention to uncollected and unpublished texts. 01/01/1997 - 31/12/1997

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          To ground the study of the work of Hugo Claus on a firm basis this project wants to systematically collect, describe and digitalize all data concerning Claus' unpublished and uncollected texts, including all texts dealing with Claus' work up till 1970. Publication of all relevant data in the Yearbook of the Claus-study THE SIGN OF THE RAM is forthcoming.

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            Books on genetic theory. 01/01/1997 - 31/12/1997

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            This project allows the Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen library to buy books on genetic theory that would be too expensive otherwise.

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              Open up the literary work of Hugo Claus till approximately 1970, including his essays, articles and letters, with close attention to uncollected and unpublished texts. 01/01/1996 - 31/12/2001

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              To ground the study of the work of Hugo Claus on a firm basis this project wants to systematically collect, describe and digitalize all data concerning Claus unpublished and uncollected texts, including all texts dealing with Claus' work up till 1970. Publication of all relevant data in the Yearbook of the Claus study THE SIGN OF THE RAM is forthcoming.

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                Preparing a textedition of the correspondence between Hugo Claus and Simon Vinkenoog from the beginning of the 1950s. 01/01/1996 - 31/12/1997

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                The correspondence between Hugo Claus and Simon Vinkenoog is a goldmine for the study of the Movement of the Fifties and for that of the largely unknown but important years 1950-1955, when Claus lived in Paris and Italy. On short notice a partly, annotated selection of Claus' letters will be published in the Yearbook of the Claus-study THE SIGN OF THE RAM. A complete edition of the letters is planned with an introduction, an historical approach, an analysis and annotations.

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                  01/01/1991 - 31/12/1991

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