Geert Buelens
Science Dep. Languages, Literature and Communication - Dutch
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Prof.dr. Geert Buelens is a professor of Modern Dutch Literature at Utrecht University and a guest professor of Dutch literature at Stellenbosch University (South Africa). In 2008 he was Kluge Fellow of the Library of Congress. His research is mainly about the interaction between literature and society. He published extensively about Paul van Ostaijen, avant-garde poetry, nationalism and the poetry of the First World War.
Research Interest
Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights
Publications
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Buelens, G. (2012). Poetry who strives to become old news. A reassessment of the concept of autonomy in the light of topical poems and songs. Mirror of the Letters , 54 (1), (pp. 61-91) (30 p.).
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Buelens, Geert (2014). '' They would not end it with any of us alive, now would they? '. The First World War in Cold War Era Films. In Martin Löschnigg & Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz (Eds.), The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film (pp. 365-383). Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter.
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BUELENS, Geert (2014). Europe's Dichter und Erste Weltkrieg . (459 p.). Suhrkamp, ​​Translation of Europe Europe! About the poets of the Great War (2008).
