Modern Dutch Studies : essays in honour of Professor Peter King on the occasion of hist retirement

"These essays by leading scholars explore the integration of language and literature study in the fields of art history and social sciences, exploring as a result the scope and nature of the discipline of Dutch Studies today."--Bloomsbury Publishing Cover Half-title Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements 1 Modern Dutch Studies: An Introduction Part I: Language and Translation 2 On Translating Proper Names, with reference to De Witte and Max Havelaar 3 Sir John Bowring (1792-1832) as a Translator and Publicist of Dutch Literature and Culture 4 The Germanic Glory-Hole: On Translating the Poetry of P. C. Boutens 5 How Difficult are the Phrasal Verbs for Dutch Learners of English? 6 Dutch CALL at Hull: An Evaluation of Computer-Assisted Language Learning Part II: Literature 7 Geertruyd van Oosten and 'Het daghet in den Oosten' 8 The Biblical Plays of the Rhetoricians and the Pageants of Oudenaarde and Lille 9 Old High German in Ghent in 1549 10 Criminal Biographies or Picaresque Novels? An Investigation of the Dutch Translations of The English Rogue and Moll Flanders 11 Anglo-Saxon Impressions: P. N. van Eyck, J. C. Bloem, A. Roland Hoist and English Poetry 12 A Closer Look at M. Nijhoff's 'Langs een wereld' ('Passing worlds') 13 The Significance of Proper Nouns in Bordewijk's Bint 14 A Faulknerian Device in Dutch Narrative Prose Part III: Social Sciences 15 The Adoption and Rejection of Elements of Marxism in the Dutch Trade Union Movement, 1890-1934 16 Ideas for a New Regime in the Netherlands after the Defeat of 1940 17 The Abortive Dutch Assault on European Tariffs, 1950-2 18 Political Culture in Belgium 19 Social Development in the Netherlands in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Review of Historical Research since 1970 Part IV: The Visual Arts 20 Godfried Schalcken's Allegory of Virtue and Riches 21 Theo van Doesburg: 'Art/Criticism' Notes Bibliography: The Principal Publications of P. K. King Index