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Looking inward: Constantijn Huygens Ooghen-troost (1647) and the sepcial visuality of the poetic experience
Acronym
Binnewaerts sien
Code
3G004307
Duration
01 January 2007 → 30 December 2012
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of language studies
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Theory and methodology of literary studies
    • Other languages and literary studies
    • Art studies and sciences
Keywords
dutch literature aesthetics literary theory
 
Project description
 

This project aims for an extensive cultural analysis of the Ooghen-troost (1647) by the Dutch poet Constantijn Huygens. The poem will be analysed at the cross-roads of a number of contemporary debates on religion, philosophy, aesthetics and natural science. It also argues for a renewal of the method of literary history and relfects upon the special visual experience of the reading of literary texts.