Dutch Interbellum Canons and World Literature A. Roland Holst, M. Nijhoff, J. Slauerhoff

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Dutch Interbellum Canons and World Literature A. Roland Holst, M. Nijhoff, J. Slauerhoff is written by Theo D’haen and published by Springer Nature. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9819954274 (ISBN 10) and 9789819954278 (ISBN 13).

This text takes a wholly new look at a major early twentieth-century Dutch poet and novelist from the perspective of world literature, situating his work in both a national and a world literary context as measured against contemporaries and near-contemporaries such as Conrad, Pound, Brecht, Segalen, and Malraux. Exemplifying how an author from a “minor” literature may be a “major” world author, this book considers the debates within World Literature regarding the classification of literatures as ‘major’ and ‘minor’, canon formation within Dutch literature, Slauerhoff's position in the Dutch tradition as well as well as his contribution to world literature, particularly focusing on his East Asian poems, his East Asian novels and stories and his poetry and prose set in Latin America. This book is a key read for scholars and students of comparative literature, world literature, European literature, and Dutch literature. Lucid in style, innovative in approach, surprisingly fresh qua topic, this book opens new horizons for literary studies.