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Ik Jan Cremer

Autor: Jan Cremer

Número de Páginas: 506

Jan Cremer, de Amerikaans geschoolde literaire terrorist, doet met zijn Tweede Boek een ongenadige aanval op de samenleving. Grimmig, schaamteloos en met cynische galgenhumor valt hij maatschappij, religie, kunst en liefde aan. In een satirisch ooggetuigeverslag onthult Jan Cremer - de moderne roofridder, de desperado, de eenzame - de naakte feiten. Als achtervolger en achtervolgde baant hij zich een weg door de levensjungle. Een moderne kruisvaarder, op zoek naar Vrijheid, Sex en Realistische Liefde. Ook deze bestseller van de veelgelezen Hollandse schrijver (zijn eerste boek telt alleen al vijf miljoen lezers) heeft de weg naar een onverbiddelijk wereldsucces waargemaakt: droom en nachtmerrie van de volksjongen die de tweede Leonardo da Vinci werd.

I, Jan Cremer

Autor: Jan Cremer , R. E Wyngaard (tr) , Alexander Trocchi (tr)

Número de Páginas: 352

Ik, Jan Cremer

Autor: Jan Cremer

Número de Páginas: 0

Author Representations in Literary Reading

Autor: Eefje Claassen

Número de Páginas: 284

Author Representations in Literary Reading investigates the role of the author in the mind of the reader. It is the first book-length empirical study on generated author inferences by readers of literature. It bridges the gap between theories which hold that the author is irrelevant and those that give him prominence. By combining insights and methods from both cognitive psychology and literary theory, this book contributes to a better understanding of how readers process literary texts and what role their assumptions about an author play. A series of experiments demonstrate that readers generate author inferences during the process of reading, which they use to create an image of the text’s author. The findings suggest that interpretations about the author play a pivotal role in the literary reading process. This book is relevant to scholars and students in all areas of the cognitive sciences, including literary studies and psychology.

The Routledge Handbook of International Beat Literature

Autor: A. Robert Lee

Número de Páginas: 783

Beat literature? Have not the great canonical names long grown familiar? Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs. Likewise the frontline texts, still controversial in some quarters, assume their place in modern American literary history. On the Road serves as Homeric journey epic. "Howl" amounts to Beat anthem, confessional outcry against materialism and war. Naked Lunch, with its dark satiric laughter, envisions a dystopian world of power and word virus. But if these are all essentially America-centered, Beat has also had quite other literary exhalations and which invite far more than mere reception study. These are voices from across the Americas of Canada and Mexico, the Anglophone world of England, Scotland or Australia, the Europe of France or Italy and from the Mediterranean of Greece and the Maghreb, and from Scandinavia and Russia, together with the Asia of Japan and China. This anthology of essays maps relevant other kinds of Beat voice, names, texts. The scope is hemispheric, Atlantic and Pacific, West and East. It gives recognition to the Beat inscribed in languages other than English and reflective of different cultural histories. Likewise the majority of contributors come from...

Ik, Jan Cremer

Autor: Jan Cremer

Número de Páginas: 444

Frank O’Hara and MoMA

Autor: Matthew Holman

Número de Páginas: 241

This is the first book to closely examine the curatorial work that the celebrated poet Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) undertook for the Museum of Modern Art in New York and abroad. Upon his premature death, the New York Times obituary ran with the headline: 'Frank O'Hara, 40, Museum Curator / Exhibitions Aide at Modern Art Dies – Also a Poet'. However, in the half a century since, O'Hara's fascinating career as a curator, where he oversaw exhibitions of the likes of Jackson Pollock, Helen Frankenthaler, David Smith, and Larry Rivers, among others, has been eclipsed by the critical attention given over to his poetry. Drawing on a broad range of unpublished archival material, the book reveals the impact O'Hara's curatorial work had both on the reception of American modern art abroad and on the curatorial profession itself. It focuses on his travelling exhibitions for MoMA's International Program, a vehicle for soft power during the fraught years of the cultural Cold War, exposing him to new art, artists, and cities, while developing important transnational networks far from New York, from Madrid to Venice, Zagreb to Otterlo. Bringing together close readings of O'Hara's poems and...

A Literary History of the Low Countries

Autor: Theo Hermans

Número de Páginas: 743

What was the written culture behind visual artists like Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Rubens? What made the historical novel in nineteenth-century Flanders so different from its counterpart in Holland? What was the literary impact of the huge colonial empires run by the Netherlands and Belgium? What role did Latin, French, and Frisian play in the literary culture of the Low Countries through the ages? Why is experimental writing so prevalent in modern Dutch literature? What has made Cees Nooteboom an internationally acclaimed author? And how does Flemish relate to Dutch anyway? This first literary history of the Netherlands and Flanders in English since the 1970s answers these and many other questions. Written by a team of Dutch and Flemish subject specialists, it offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of the literature of the Dutch-speaking area from the medieval period up to the present day. While it focuses on literature written in Dutch, it also assesses the significance of writings in French, Latin, and Frisian.

Jayne Mansfield

Autor: Eve Golden

Número de Páginas: 503

Jayne Mansfield (19331967) was driven not just to be an actress but to be a star. One of the most influential sex symbols of her time, she was known for her platinum blonde hair, hourglass figure, outrageously low necklines, and flamboyant lifestyle. Hardworking and ambitious, Mansfield proved early in her career that she was adept in both comic and dramatic roles, but her tenacious search for the spotlight and her risqué promotional stunts caused her to be increasingly snubbed in Hollywood. In the first definitive biography of Mansfield, Eve Golden offers a joyful account of the star Andy Warhol called "the poet of publicity," revealing the smart, determined woman behind the persona. While she always had her sights set on the silver screen, Mansfield got her start as Rita Marlowe in the Broadway show Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?. She made her film debut in the low-budget drama Female Jungle (1955) before landing the starring role in The Girl Can't Help It (1956). Mansfield followed this success with a dramatic role in The Wayward Bus (1957), winning a Golden Globe for New Star of the Year, and starred alongside Cary Grant in Kiss Them for Me (1957). Despite her popularity,...

Eurogrammar

Autor: R. J. C. Smits

Número de Páginas: 480

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Dutch Novels Translated into English

Autor: Rita Vanderauwera

Número de Páginas: 176

Kerouac on Record

Autor: Simon Warner , Jim Sampas

Número de Páginas: 481

He was the leading light of the Beat Generation writers and the most dynamic author of his time, but Jack Kerouac also had a lifelong passion for music, particularly the mid-century jazz of New York City, the development of which he witnessed first-hand during the 1940s with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk to the fore. The novelist, most famous for his 1957 book On the Road, admired the sounds of bebop and attempted to bring something of their original energy to his own writing, a torrent of semi-autobiographical stories he published between 1950 and his early death in 1969. Yet he was also drawn to American popular music of all kinds – from the blues to Broadway ballads – and when he came to record albums under his own name, he married his unique spoken word style with some of the most talented musicians on the scene. Kerouac's musical legacy goes well beyond the studio recordings he made himself: his influence infused generations of music makers who followed in his work – from singer-songwriters to rock bands. Some of the greatest transatlantic names – Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead, Van Morrison and David Bowie, Janis Joplin and Tom Waits, Sonic...

Sexual Cultures in Europe

Autor: Franz Eder , Gert Hekma , Lesley A. Hall

Número de Páginas: 276

Providing an overview of the key themes in the history of European sexual cultures, this text covers issues such as religion & sexuality, sexual education, sexual disease, same-sex relationships, pornography, failed fertility & abortion.

On Bohemia

Autor: Cesar Grana

Número de Páginas: 833

Bohemia has been variously defined as a mythical country, a state of mind, a tavern by the wayside on the road of life. The editors of this volume prefer a leaner definition: an attitude of dissent from the prevailing values of middle-class society, one dependent on the existence of caf life. But whatever definition is preferred, this rich and long overdue collective portrait of Bohemian life in a large variety of settings is certain to engage and even entrance readers of all types: from the student of culture to social researchers and literary figures n search of their ancestral roots. The work is international in scope and social scientific in conception. But because of the special nature of the Bohemian fascination, the volume is also graced by an unusually larger number of exquisite literary essays. Hence, one will find in this anthology writings by Malcolm Cowely, Norman Podhoretz, Norman Mailer, Theophile Gautier, Honore de Balzac, Mary Austin, Stefan Zweig, Nadine Gordimer, and Ernest Hemingway. Social scientists are well represented by Cesar Grana, Ephraim Mizruchi, W.I. Thomas, Florian Znaniecki, Harvey Zorbaugh, John R. Howard, and G. William Domhoff, among others.The...

Het jongensparadijs

Autor: Bert Wagendorp

Número de Páginas: 193

Bert Wagendorp kan eigenlijk over alles schrijven. Over Nederland of narigheid, schrijven of sport, illusie en droom zijn rijkdom aan onderwerpen is enorm. Maar je herkent altijd onmiddellijk de blik en de pen van Wagendorp. Hij is een van die zeldzame schrijvers die even meedogenloos als melancholiek kan zijn. Die verbazing met mededogen kan kruiden, in plaats van met ergernis. Niet dat hij zich nooit ergert. Maar daarvoor biedt humor dan het juiste medicijn. In Het jongensparadijs staan de mooiste verhalen, beschouwingen en essays bij elkaar die hij de afgelopen ruim vijf jaar heeft geschreven. Het is een boek geworden waarin hij een portret geeft van onszelf maar dat óók een zelfportret is, even ontroerend als indrukwekkend.

Use My Name

Autor: James T. Jones

Número de Páginas: 204

A unique biography of Jack Kerouac, which gives a greater understanding of the 'King of the Beats' by exploring the lives of the five people who knew him best: his daughter (Jan Kerouac), wives (Edie Parker, Joan Haverty, Stella Sampas) and nephew (Paul Blake, Jr). Not one of these people seem to have benefited from the connection, as the late Jan Kerouac amply demonstrates in her interview with the author. She discusses at length her 15 months as a prostitute, her own marital problems, her hospitalization, and her life as a writer, including a wild book tour for Baby Driver.

Literary Trials

Autor: Ralf Grüttemeier

Número de Páginas: 242

From the 19th century onwards, famous literary trials have caught the attention of readers, academics and the public at large. Indeed it is striking that more often than not, it was the texts of renowned writers that were dealt with by the courts, as for example Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal in France, James Joyce's Ulysses and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer in the US, D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover in Great-Britain, up to the more recent trials on Klaus Mann's Mephisto and Maxim Biller's novel Esra in Germany. By bringing together international leading experts, Literary Trials represents the first step towards a systematic discussion of literary trials on a global scale. Beginning by first reassessing some of the most famous of these trials, it also analyses less well-known but significant literary trials. Special attention is paid to recent developments in the relationship between literature and judicature, pointing towards an increasing role for libel and defamation in the societal demarcation of what literature is, and is not, allowed to do.

Language in Literature

Autor: Jonathan Locke Hart

Número de Páginas: 260

Language in Literature examines the overlap and blurring boundaries of English, comparative and world poetry and literature. Questions of language, literature, translation and creative writing are addressed as befitting an author who is a poet, literary scholar and historian. The book begins with metaphor, which Aristotle thought, in Poetics, was the key gift of the poet, and discusses it in theory and practice; it moves from the identity of metaphor to identity in translation and culture; it examines poetry in a comparative and world context; it looks at image and text; it explores literature and culture in the Cold War; it explores the role of the poet and scholar in translating poetry East and West; it places creative writing in theory and practice in context East and West; it concludes by summing up and suggesting implications of creation in language, translating and interpreting, and its expression in literature, especially in poetry.

Conjugal Bliss

Autor: John Nichols

Número de Páginas: 265

"A hilarious, raucous, painfully graphic portrait of The Marriage from Hell."--Chicago Tribune

Character Constellations

Autor: Roel Smeets

Número de Páginas: 254

Fiction has a major social impact, not least because it co-shapes the image that society has of various social groups. Drawing on a collection of 170 contemporary Dutch-language novels, Character Constellations presents a range of data-driven, statistical models to study depictions of characters in terms of gender, race, ethnicity, class, age, sexuality, and other identity categories. Incorporating the tools of network analysis, each chapter highlights an aspect of fictional social networks that affects the representation of social groups: their centrality, their communities, and their conflicts. While reading individual novels in light of emerging statistical patterns, combining the formal methods of social network analysis with the interpretive tools of narratology, this study shows how central societal themes such as (in)equality and emancipation, integration and segregation, and social mobility and class struggle are foregrounded, replicated, or distorted in the Dutch novel. Showcasing what character-based critiques of literary representation gain by integrating data-driven methods into the practice of critical close reading, Character Constellations contributes to societal...

Literary Performances of Post-Religious Memory in the Netherlands

Autor: Jesseka M. Batteau

Número de Páginas: 434

This book offers an in-depth study of iconic literary narratives and images of religious transformation and secularisation in the Netherlands during the 1960s and 1970s. Jesseka Batteau shows how Gerard Reve, Jan Wolkers and Maarten ’t Hart texts and performances can be understood as instances of religious and post-religious memory with a broad public impact. They contributed to a widely shared perspective on the Dutch religious past and a collective understanding of what secularisation consists of. This uniquely interdisciplinary approach combines insights from literary studies, memory studies, media studies and religious studies and traces the complex dynamics of the circulation of memory and meaning between literary texts, mass media and embodied performances within a post-religious society.

The Manipulation of Literature (Routledge Revivals)

Autor: Theo Hermans

Número de Páginas: 122

First published in 1985, the essays in this edited collection offer a representative sample of the descriptive and systematic approach to the study of literary translation. The book is a reflection of the theoretical thinking and practical research carried out by an international group of scholars who share a common standpoint. They argue the need for a rigorous scientific approach the phenomena of translation – one of the most significant branches of Comparative Literature – and regard it as essential to link the study of particular translated texts with a broader methodological position. Considering both broadly theoretical topics and particular cases and traditions, this volume will appeal to a wide range of students and scholars across disciplines.

New Literary Voices of the Moroccan Diaspora

Autor: Ieme Van Der Poel

Número de Páginas: 224

The highly-charged debate over Morocco’s diasporic minorities in Europe has led to a growing interest in the literary production of these ‘new’ Europeans. This comparative study is the first to discuss together a body of texts, including contemporary Judeo-Moroccan literature, written in French, Spanish, Catalan and Dutch, which have never been studied as a group. Faced with such a variegated field of literary production, the aim of this book is not to tie individual works of literature to their ‘national’ place of origin, but to re-conceptualize the idea of a ‘Moroccan’ literature with regard to the transnational and multilingual experiences from which it arises. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical insights, from Fatima Mernissi’s concept of female subalternity to Abdelmalek Sayad’s principle of the immigrants’ ‘absent’ history, this book allows for the re-evaluation of the relationship between migration and postcolonial literary studies. A careful analysis of the literary techniques used in the texts under scrutiny here highlights their poetic qualities, without bypassing their political relevance with regard to the intercultural relations between...

National Union Catalog

Número de Páginas: 620

Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Hollands welvaren

Autor: Joost Zwagerman

Número de Páginas: 194

De trivialisering van de landspolitiek. Hoe het onderwijs kapot werd gemaakt. De 'staatsbegrafenis' van André Hazes. De doodsbedreiging als nationale volkssport. Multicultuur en Marokkanendrama. De moord op Van Gogh. Literatuur en leugens. Hollands welvaren behandelt deze en vele andere drama's en hypes die Nederland beleefde tussen 2004 en 2008. Zwagerman schetst tot in details een land dat zwalkt en zwenkt, op zoek naar identiteit en zingeving, maar telkens stuitend op tumult en populisme.

The 60s: The Story of a Decade

Autor: The New Yorker Magazine

Número de Páginas: 722

This fascinating anthology collects notable New Yorker pieces from the most tumultuous years of the twentieth century—including work by James Baldwin, Pauline Kael, Sylvia Plath, Roger Angell, and Muriel Spark—alongside new assessments of the 1960s by some of today’s finest writers. Here are real-time accounts of these years, brought to immediate and profound life: Calvin Trillin reports on the integration of Southern universities, E. B. White and John Updike wrestle with the enormity of the Kennedy assassination, and Jonathan Schell travels with American troops into the jungles of Vietnam. Some of the truly timeless works of American journalism came out of The New Yorker that decade, including Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, and James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, all excerpted here. The arts, too, underwent an extraordinary transformation, with the magazine publishing such indelible short story masterpieces as John Cheever’s “The Swimmer” and John Updike’s “A & P”; iconic poems by Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton; and in-depth profiles of crucial cultural figures like Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, and...

The Nation Form in the Global Age

Autor: Irfan Ahmad , Jie Kang

Número de Páginas: 393

This open access book argues that contrary to dominant approaches that view nationalism as unaffected by globalization or globalization undermining the nation-state, the contemporary world is actually marked by globalization of the nation form. Based on fieldwork in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East and drawing, among others, on Peter van der Veer’s comparative work on religion and nation, it discuss practices of nationalism vis-a-vis migration, rituals of sacrifice and prayer, music, media, e-commerce, Islamophobia, bare life, secularism, literature and atheism. The volume offers new understandings of nationalism in a broader perspective. The text will appeal to students and researchers interested in nationalism outside of the West, especially those working in anthropology, sociology and history.

Alles is gekleurd

Autor: Joost Zwagerman

Número de Páginas: 369

Wat bezielde de vrouw die haar lippen rood stiftte en in een museum in Frankrijk een volmaakt wit schilderij een kus gaf? Hoe voelt het om op een wolk te staan? Waarom noemde Marcel Duchamp zichzelf een ontsnappingskunstenaar? Kun je een roman over 'bestendig geluk' schrijven? Waarom vindt Marlene Dumas dat je een beetje bang moet zijn voor wat je zelf maakt? Bestaat er lichtgevend zwart? In welke straat maakt het heelal een bocht? In Alles is gekleurd maakt Joost Zwagerman talrijke omzwervingen in de kunst, literatuur en popcultuur. Over de kopie als kunstvorm. Over Parijs versus New York. Over 'patiënt' Vincent van Gogh. Over God en de gewone man. Over de grappen van Nabokov. Over sabotage in de kunst. Over Hopper. Over Campert. Over het diamanten doodshoofd van Damien Hirst. Over het leed én het feest dat leven heet. En over nog veel meer, met als verbindend motto het korte gedicht van K. Schippers: 'Als je goed om je heen kijkt / zie je dat alles gekleurd is.' Joost Zwagerman publiceerde meer dan vijfentwintig boeken, waaronder de romans Vals licht en De buitenvrouw. Zijn vorige essaybundel Transito bereikte de shortlist van de AKO Literatuurprijs. In 2008 ontving hij voor...

Americana

Autor: Joost Zwagerman

Número de Páginas: 1245

Americana is het magnum opus van Joost Zwagerman, voor zover het om zijn non-fictie gaat. In het boek worden alle stukken verzameld die Joost in de loop der jaren heeft geschreven over de Amerikaanse cultuur: film, popmuziek, fotografie, literatuur, architectuur etc. Daarmee is Americana niet alleen een totaaloverzicht van het schrijverschap van Zwagerman, een soort autobiografie in essayvorm, maar ook van de Amerikaanse samenleving in de afgelopen decennia. Uniek: alleen dit e-book bevat de inleiding en de gehele verzameling essays die Joost Zwagerman schreef voor Americana. De paperback editie van Americana bevat een inleiding en een keuze van Zwagermans essays door Peter Buwalda.

Bestsellers in Nederland. 1900-2015

Autor: Erica Van Boven

Número de Páginas: 220

Welke boeken hebben in de twintigste en eenentwintigste eeuw de Nederlandse literaire markt bepaald? Bestsellers zijn de boeken die ‘iedereen’ op een bepaald moment wil lezen. De typische bestseller ligt in grote stapels bij de boekhandel, wordt vandaag massaal gekocht en gelezen, is even het gesprek van de dag en maakt dan weer plaats voor nieuwe modeboeken. De houdbaarheid is beperkt; de bestseller werkt alleen in zijn onmiddellijke raamwerk van plaats en tijd. Toch is de betekenis van succesboeken niet gering. Ze vormen een unieke bron van historische, sociale en culturele kennis en bieden tegelijkertijd een bijzonder inzicht in de ontwikkeling, groei en werking van de literaire markt. De beide invalshoeken staan in dit boek centraal.

Mijn generatie

Autor: Han Lörzing

Número de Páginas: 280

Mijn generatie... • zag in de winter ijsbloemen aan de binnenkant van het slaapkamerraam • luisterde onder de dekens naar Amerikaanse rock • was de eerste die massaal een spijkerbroek aantrok • at met de gestampte pot mee totdat we olijfolie, Franse kaas en paprika’s ontdekten • rookte omdat dat nu eenmaal zo hoorde • had ouders die nooit buiten de deur aten totdat ‘de Chinees’ zich in de buurt vestigde • kocht stiekem condooms bij de kapper • reed zonder gordel om, zat dronken achter het stuur en kwam ermee weg • zag de eerste erectie op het witte doek • viel in de jaren zeventig van zijn geloof • kreeg zijn eerste computer met een pc-privéproject... ...en zag nog veel meer veranderen.

1 interviewer-10 geboden-100 schrijvers

Autor: Arjan Visser

Número de Páginas: 958

‘1 interviewer – 10 geboden – 100 schrijvers’ is een bundeling van alle interviews met schrijvers die Arjan Visser in de afgelopen twintig jaar voor Trouw afnam aan de hand van de Bijbelse Tien Geboden. Na 500 afleveringen is de ‘Tien Geboden’-serie een instituut geworden. Vragen over geloof, opvoeding, relaties; elk onderwerp komt tijdens het gesprek aan bod. Van Jan Wolkers tot Franca Treur, van Harry Mulisch tot Hanna Bervoets: ze blikken allemaal terug op hun kinderjaren, proberen de verhouding met hun ouders te duiden, maar laten vooral ook hun gedachten gaan over het belang van fictie in hun leven, of, om met P.F. Thomése te spreken: ‘De werkelijkheid zoals wij die schijnen te moeten kennen is een verzinsel van anderen.’ Dit boek is een bijbel voor schrijvers en lezers.

Modern American Counter Writing

Autor: A. Robert Lee

Número de Páginas: 309

The dissident voice in US culture might almost be said to have been born with the territory. Its span runs from Roger Williams to Thoreau, Anne Bradstreet to Gertrude Stein, Ambrose Bierce to the New Journalism, The Beats to the recent Bad Subjects cyber-crowd. This new study analyses three recent literary tranches in the tradition: a re-envisioning of the whole Beat web or circuit; a consortium of postwar "outrider" voices – Hunter Thompson to Frank Chin, Joan Didion to Kathy Acker; and a latest purview of what, all too casually, has been designated "ethnic" writing. The aim is to set up and explore these different counter-seams of modern American writing, those which sit outside, or at least awkwardly within, agreed literary canons.

Popular Music and the Poetics of Self in Fiction

Número de Páginas: 368

Popular Music and the Poetics of Self in Fiction explores the various links between the self and popular music in contemporary fiction. In the novels discussed in this volume, musical references go far beyond creating a tapestry of sound, they make literary characters come alive by giving an account of the physiological and psychological effects of their musical experiences and of their ways of life in different (sub)cultural and social groups. With plots revolving around songs and albums, musicians and bands, and fans and scenes, the thematic focus on the self encompasses the relation of musical taste and identity construction, popular music’s function as a medium of individual and collective memory, and its uses in everyday life across decades, spaces, and genres.

Jongensjaren

Autor: Martin Bril

Número de Páginas: 85

Toen Martin Bril in 2008 ziek werd, bleef hij plannen maken, en belangrijker: hij bleef die plannen uitvoeren. Zo wilde hij een boek schrijven over zijn jeugd, die zich afspeelde in onder meer Utrecht, Dieren, Drachten en 't Harde, en bij verschillende familieleden in Friesland en Groningen. In sneltreinvaart schreef Bril Jongensjaren, een verzameling verhalen over de jaren zestig en zeventig, die onder de pen van Bril subtiel tot leven komen. Een boek over Ras Patat, over een drumstel in hotel Talens, over zijn vriend Jaap Wagenaar en over de kauwgomballenautomaat bij de Vivo. Maar vooral een boek over de jonge Martin Bril, in zijn jeugd al een fijnzinnig observator van het menselijk tekort, die zou uitgroeien tot een van de invloedrijkste en geliefdste schrijvers van Nederland. Op 22 april 2009 overleed Martin Bril, 49 jaar oud. Maar zijn boeken blijven. En met Jongensjaren heeft hij zijn honderdduizenden lezers postuum een schitterende ode aan zijn jeugd gegeven.

Pursuit

Autor: John Calder

Número de Páginas: 660

"e;Publish and be damned"e;, Wellington's famous adage, runs like a leitmotiv through John Calder's memoirs. He has been damned by a censorious press, by politicians, by other publishers and by organs of the state for publishing books on sensitive issues. Damned also for publishing such authors as Henry Miller, William Burroughs, Alexander Trocchi and Hubert Selby Jr, as well as for bringing to public notice the abuses of the armies and security forces of colonial countries. He took on American authors who could not be published in the United States during the McCarthy witch-hunt. He exposed the atrocities of the Algerian and other African wars, and produced many books on British political, social and moral issues, which only a totally independent publisher could have done.Born into the most conservative of establishment families, John Calder has always gone his own way - seeking out literary genius and creating a greater awareness of the world we inhabit. His publishing programme contained a large proportion of the leading writers of the twentieth century, including Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Luigi Pirandello, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marguerite Duras, Heinrich Boell and ...

Alleen de titel is nog niet af

Autor: Karel Ten Haaf

Número de Páginas: 234

Alleen de titel is nog niet af De randverschijnselen van de Nederlandstalige literatuur, daarover schrijft Karel ten Haaf in zijn rubriek `Lezendarisch op Tzum. De krochten van de letteren, daarin begeeft hij zich graag. Omdat de literatuur veel meer behelst dan een handjevol bestsellers en drie grote schrijvers. Of hij nou bericht over bibliofiele uitgaven of over obscure auteurs, Ten Haaf schrijft bijzonder aanstekelijk over de onbekende hoeken en gaten van onze o zo rijke literatuur. De per over het werk van Karel ten Haaf: `Het onstuitbare enthousiasme dat uit alles spreekt maakt het lezen van Geen zomer meer tot een bijzondere ervaring. Vrij Nederland Dit is geen doorsnee poëzie. Karel ten Haaf kijkt wat je nog meer met taal kunt doen. Waar de grenzen liggen. Of er grenzen zijn. [] Karel ten Haaf toont ons een vorm van literatuur die zeldzaam geworden is. Daarmee is hij een dichter om te koesteren. Low culture verbouwen tot Literatuur is niet iedereen gegeven. Literatuurplein Ik heb mij lang niet zo vermaakt met een boek dat mij als dichtbundel werd toegestuurd, en dat mij tegelijkertijd zo ernstig voorkwam. Het is een fenomeen, van de straat is geïllustreerd met o.a....

Media Scandals

Autor: Alan Bisbort

Número de Páginas: 258

This fascinating volume offers an overview of the most influential and notorious media scandals, from newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger's groundbreaking 1735 trial for printing and publishing false, scandalous, malicious and seditious statements to Dr. Phil McGraw's 2008 thwarted attempt to force his television cameras inside Britney Spears' hospital room, from the attempts to ban literature by the likes of D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Henry Miller, and Allen Ginsberg to the excesses of gossip mongers like Walter Winchell, Hedda Hopper, Geraldo Rivera, and Matt Drudge. It delves into the tabloid press and walks through the minefields of political opinion shapers, the shouters, the muckrakers and whistleblowers. America's obsession with scandal-and the media's boundless capacity to report and sometimes even create it-did not start with O.J. Simpson, Rush Limbaugh, or Britney Spears. It was ingrained in the fabric of our nation even before Paul Revere made his famous ride. Indeed, our media's cherished right to free expression was hard-won and is now protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, but it comes with responsibilities and is fraught with peril. The...