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Project

Transgeneric Migration: Lyricisation of Dutch and Flemish Fiction (1955-1975).  
Code
01D32416
Duration
01 October 2016 → 31 July 2021
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
Keywords
Lyricisation 1960s Dutch-speaking fiction   Literary studies
 
Project description
 

This project will examine “lyricality” (Phelan) in Dutch-speaking fiction (1955-1975). Like poets, authors of  experimental fiction emphasise the musical quality of the text, focus on speaker’s subjectivity or slow down the  storyworld. Literary historiography relates these experiments to the socio-political contestations in the 1960s. I  will adjust this view by showing that the lyrical procedures in fiction have diverse functions.