Special issue – Augustinus P. Dierick and Basil Kingstone (eds.),
Voorwaarts/Forward. An Anthology of Writing from the Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies.
On the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Netherlandic Studies (1971-1996).
FOREWORD /AVANT-PROPOS, page vii
I History
RAY WAKEFIELD – The Beguines sisters, page 7
R.G. HAYCOCK – Prince Maurice (1567-1625) and the Dutch contribution to the art of war, page 22
PETER DE KLERK – What possessed them? Leadership credibility of the Dutch immigration into Colorado in 1892-93, page 35
II Philosophy
RALPH NELSON – Portrait of the sage: Spinoza’s conception of the philosophic life, page 44
III The Arts
GEOFFREY SIMMINS – Fernand Khnopff and Ver sacrum, page 75
ROBERT SIEBELHOFF – Iets over de persoon Jan Toorop, page 99
GEORGE TSIHLIAS – Victor Horta: the Maison Tassel, the sources of its development, page 108
IV Literature
HAIJO WESTRA – Literary parody and the beast epic: Van den vos Reinaerde, page 129
E. M. BEEKMAN – Junghuhn’s perception of Javanese nature, page 135
ALEXANDER ZWEERS – The antichristian views of Marcellus Emants, page 146
MARTIN BAKKER – “Fatherland” and “Mother tongue” in Nijhoff’s poetry, page 157
AUGUSTINUS P. DIERICK – Stempelen and Doppen: reflections of the economic crisis of the 1930’s in two representative novels of Holland and Belgium, page 162
HENRI SCHOGT – Motives and impediments in describing war memories, the tragedy of the Jews, page 171
JOHN MICHIELSEN – Coming to terms with the past and searching for an identity: the treatment of the occupied Netherlands in the fiction of Hermans, Mulisch and Vestdijk, page 178
JOHANNA VANDERWAL TAYLOR – Bitter herbs, empty houses, traps and false identities: the (post-)war world of Marga Minco, page 184
HERMINA JOLDERSMA – Renate Rubinstein, an introduction, page 190
BASIL D. KINGSTONE – Cees Nooteboom’s Rituelen: three characters in search of a sign, page 200
ADRIAN VAN DEN HOVEN – Mischa de Vreede’s Het leven een film (Life a movie), an analysis, page 208
NANCY CHADBURN – Kristien Hemmerechts’ Brede heupen and the social construction of woman, page 214
V Language
ROBERT HOWELL – Notes on the rise of non-apical r in Dutch: denying the French connection, page 222
WILLIAM H. FLETCHER – Come down with cholera!: disease names in Dutch strong language, page 232
