NI02_10 Modernist and Neoclassical Poetry in Dutch Language

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2025
Extent and Intensity
10/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Marta Kostelecká, Ph.D. (assistant)
Mgr. Sofie Rose-Anne W. Royeaerd, M.A. (alternate examiner)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Sofie Rose-Anne W. Royeaerd, M.A.
Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Marta Kostelecká, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites (in Czech)
NI01_03 Practical Dutch I/2
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
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Course objectives
This course deals with Dutch and Flemish modernist and neoclassicist poetry. Authors such as Paul van Ostaijen (1896 – 1928), Hendrik Marsman (1899 – 1940), Martinus Nijhoff (1894 – 1953), J.C. Bloem (1887 – 1966), Jan van Nijlen (1894 – 1965), Richard Minne (1891 – 1965), Maurice Gilliams (1900 – 1982) and Gerrit Achterberg (1905 – 1962) are being dealt with. Students acquire knowledge about Dutch poetry in the first half of the twentieth century and learn how to analyze poetry.
Learning outcomes
- students can place the Dutch and Flemish authors of the 19th and 20th centuries in a cultural-historical context
- students can interpret poems by the chosen modernist poets
Syllabus
  • Preliminary overview:
  • Language preparation class
  • Modernist poetry (part 1)
  • Modernist poetry (part 2)
  • Neoclassicist poetry (part 1)
  • Neoclassicist poetry (part 2)
Literature
  • T'Sjoen, Yves. Dingenzoeken in Taka-Tukaland: periteksten in de moderne Nederlandstalige poëzie; met replieken van Benno Barnard ... [et al.]. Gent: Academia Press, 2011. iii, 267 p. ISBN 978-90-382-1668-3 Bel, Jacqueline. Bloed en rozen: geschiedenis
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Teaching methods
By means of a reader, students prepare texts for this intensive course. Language problems are discussed in a preparation course, which is followed by four lectures.
Assessment methods
Reading and preparing texts; presence and active participation during classes
Language of instruction
Dutch
Further Comments
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught in blocks.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2016, Autumn 2023.
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