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Papers by Geert Buelens
Bmgn-The low countries historical review, 2020
... Title : De stem der Loreley. Over Paul van Ostaijen. Language : Dutch. Author, co-author : Sp... more ... Title : De stem der Loreley. Over Paul van Ostaijen. Language : Dutch. Author, co-author : Spinoy,Erik mailto [Université de Liège - ULg > Département des langues et littératures modernes > Littérature néerlandaise >]. Buelens, Geert [ > > ]. Publication date : 1996. ...
Spiegel der Letteren, 1999
T. 1 : Plaatsen van geschiedenis en expansie T. 2 : Plaatsen van tweedracht, crisis en nostalgie
Dutch Crossing, 2003
Abstract In the early 1980s Humo's iconic rock Journalist Marc Mijlemans went to Dublin and w... more Abstract In the early 1980s Humo's iconic rock Journalist Marc Mijlemans went to Dublin and was amazed to learn of the nationalism of U2's The Edge. In the autumn of 2003, Frank Vandenbroucke (socialist Minister of Labour in Belgium's federal government) was equally surprised when journalists suggested that his recent political fight with his Walloon counterparts might earn him an honorary place in the Flemish Movement: ‘That is not my ambition’ he said, and laughed. Since the early 1970s Flemish nationalism and progressive, trendy or cool behaviour have seemed mutually exclusive. In my paper, I argue that an increasingly ‘progressive’ and ‘liberal’ culture nevertheless promotes ideals and ambitions crucial to the Flemish Movement. I will use the work of Johan Anthierens as a case study, but Humo, Herman de Coninck and Tom Lanoye provide other cases in point.
Languages and the First World War: Representation and Memory, 2016
Tijdschrift Voor Nederlandse Taal En Letterkunde, Jan 31, 2011
‘Grotesk radicale wantoestanden… en enkele remedies om ze te bestrijden.’ (Interview met prof. Ge... more ‘Grotesk radicale wantoestanden… en enkele remedies om ze te bestrijden.’ (Interview met prof. Geert Buelens) in: Handboek Literatuuronderwijs 2014-5. [online raadpleegbaar:] http://www.dagvanhetliteratuuronderwijs.nl/Handboek.aspx
As part of the debate in the Netherlands centring on national identity in the wake of the assassi... more As part of the debate in the Netherlands centring on national identity in the wake of the assassination of Pim Fortuyn (2002) and Theo van Gogh (2004), an attempt is made to tackle the topic of unworldly cosmopolitanism versus remerging nationalism. The focus is on the way the arty yet popular Dutch
rock band ‘Nits’ (1974–present) dealt with these issues in their song lyrics, how Nits construct both their international and Dutch identity, and how their evolution in this respect mirrors or nuances current debates about the elite’s position vis-à-vis national character.
Études Germaniques, 2006
Despite the critical distance young Flemish intellectuals feel towards the Flemish Movement, thei... more Despite the critical distance young Flemish intellectuals feel towards the Flemish
Movement, their ideas and ambitions are clearly marked by the agenda of one of
the Movement’s leaders, August Vermeylen. For more than a hundred years Flemish
emancipation has progressed thanks to the support from writers who are concerned
with the position of Flemish culture within Europe.
Poetry is all but absent from Cultural Studies. Most treatments of the genre tend to focus on can... more Poetry is all but absent from Cultural Studies. Most treatments of the genre tend to focus on canonized poets whose work is wilfully difficult and obscure. Alternative histories should be explored, opening up possibilities to view poetry again as a culturally relevant art form. The demotic and popular strain provides a case in point. From the Romantics onwards modern poetry linked itself with oral or folk traditions like the ballad. Socially the most popular of these forms is the pop lyric. Since the 1950s rock lyrics have been studied in Social Studies, Cultural Studies, Musicology and some English Departments, but rarely within the context of Poetics or Comparative Literature. Rap and canonized singer-songwriters like Dylan and Cohen are the exceptions to the rule. Systematic attention to both lyrics and performance may open up current ideas of what a poem is and how it works.
Bmgn-The low countries historical review, 2020
... Title : De stem der Loreley. Over Paul van Ostaijen. Language : Dutch. Author, co-author : Sp... more ... Title : De stem der Loreley. Over Paul van Ostaijen. Language : Dutch. Author, co-author : Spinoy,Erik mailto [Université de Liège - ULg > Département des langues et littératures modernes > Littérature néerlandaise >]. Buelens, Geert [ > > ]. Publication date : 1996. ...
Spiegel der Letteren, 1999
T. 1 : Plaatsen van geschiedenis en expansie T. 2 : Plaatsen van tweedracht, crisis en nostalgie
Dutch Crossing, 2003
Abstract In the early 1980s Humo's iconic rock Journalist Marc Mijlemans went to Dublin and w... more Abstract In the early 1980s Humo's iconic rock Journalist Marc Mijlemans went to Dublin and was amazed to learn of the nationalism of U2's The Edge. In the autumn of 2003, Frank Vandenbroucke (socialist Minister of Labour in Belgium's federal government) was equally surprised when journalists suggested that his recent political fight with his Walloon counterparts might earn him an honorary place in the Flemish Movement: ‘That is not my ambition’ he said, and laughed. Since the early 1970s Flemish nationalism and progressive, trendy or cool behaviour have seemed mutually exclusive. In my paper, I argue that an increasingly ‘progressive’ and ‘liberal’ culture nevertheless promotes ideals and ambitions crucial to the Flemish Movement. I will use the work of Johan Anthierens as a case study, but Humo, Herman de Coninck and Tom Lanoye provide other cases in point.
Languages and the First World War: Representation and Memory, 2016
Tijdschrift Voor Nederlandse Taal En Letterkunde, Jan 31, 2011
‘Grotesk radicale wantoestanden… en enkele remedies om ze te bestrijden.’ (Interview met prof. Ge... more ‘Grotesk radicale wantoestanden… en enkele remedies om ze te bestrijden.’ (Interview met prof. Geert Buelens) in: Handboek Literatuuronderwijs 2014-5. [online raadpleegbaar:] http://www.dagvanhetliteratuuronderwijs.nl/Handboek.aspx
As part of the debate in the Netherlands centring on national identity in the wake of the assassi... more As part of the debate in the Netherlands centring on national identity in the wake of the assassination of Pim Fortuyn (2002) and Theo van Gogh (2004), an attempt is made to tackle the topic of unworldly cosmopolitanism versus remerging nationalism. The focus is on the way the arty yet popular Dutch
rock band ‘Nits’ (1974–present) dealt with these issues in their song lyrics, how Nits construct both their international and Dutch identity, and how their evolution in this respect mirrors or nuances current debates about the elite’s position vis-à-vis national character.
Études Germaniques, 2006
Despite the critical distance young Flemish intellectuals feel towards the Flemish Movement, thei... more Despite the critical distance young Flemish intellectuals feel towards the Flemish
Movement, their ideas and ambitions are clearly marked by the agenda of one of
the Movement’s leaders, August Vermeylen. For more than a hundred years Flemish
emancipation has progressed thanks to the support from writers who are concerned
with the position of Flemish culture within Europe.
Poetry is all but absent from Cultural Studies. Most treatments of the genre tend to focus on can... more Poetry is all but absent from Cultural Studies. Most treatments of the genre tend to focus on canonized poets whose work is wilfully difficult and obscure. Alternative histories should be explored, opening up possibilities to view poetry again as a culturally relevant art form. The demotic and popular strain provides a case in point. From the Romantics onwards modern poetry linked itself with oral or folk traditions like the ballad. Socially the most popular of these forms is the pop lyric. Since the 1950s rock lyrics have been studied in Social Studies, Cultural Studies, Musicology and some English Departments, but rarely within the context of Poetics or Comparative Literature. Rap and canonized singer-songwriters like Dylan and Cohen are the exceptions to the rule. Systematic attention to both lyrics and performance may open up current ideas of what a poem is and how it works.
The First World War changed the map of Europe forever. Empires collapsed, new countries were born... more The First World War changed the map of Europe forever. Empires collapsed, new countries were born, revolutions shocked and inspired the world.
This tumult, sometimes referred to as ‘the literary war’, saw an extraordinary outpouring of writing. The conflict opened up a vista of possibilities and tragedies for poetic exploration, and at the same time poetry was a tool for manipulating the sentiments of the combatant peoples. In Germany alone during the first few months there were over a million poems of propaganda published. We think of war poets as pacifistic protestors, but that view has been created retrospectively. The verse of the time, particularly in the early years of the conflict—in Fernando Pessoa or Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, for example—could find in the violence and technology of modern warfare an awful and exhilarating epiphany.
In this cultural history of the First World War, the conflict is seen from the point of view of poets and writers from all over Europe, including Rupert Brooke, Anna Akhmatova, Guillaume Apollinaire, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Rainer Maria Rilke and Siegfried Sassoon.
Everything to Nothing is the award-winning panoramic history of how nationalism and internationalism defined both the war itself and its aftermath—revolutionary movements, wars for independence, civil wars, the treaty of Versailles. It reveals how poets played a vital role in defining the stakes, ambitions and disappointments of postwar Europe.
