Jürgen Pieters
Biographic Data
| ID | 1432075 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jürgen Pieters |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jürgen |
| FAMILY NAME | Pieters |
| SIGNATURE | PIETERS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University Hospital |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4475-9540 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1951 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bibliotherapy in practice
This workshop aims to present the outlines of a research project situated in the interdisciplinary research domain of bibliotherapy: the use of literature in healthcare contexts. With this project we want to demonstrate that different syndromes and pain experiences require a diversification of the (prescribed or non-prescribed) texts and the associated reading practice. On the one hand, the project aims to refine the international discourse of bi…
Literature and Consolation
"By focusing on a number of significant moments in the interlocking histories of the book’s two central concepts--literature and consolation--this study makes readers aware of the premises that underlie the assumption that literary writings can bring comfort. What is it in literary texts that provides this special experience? How does literature help us to understand what consolation means and the effects it can have on individual readers? The in…
Literature and Consolation
The Classical Regime of Literary Comfort
This chapter starts from a close reading of the famous scene of consolation between Achilles and Priamos in the Iliad’ s closing book (Book 24). The logic of ‘eleos’ that governs the scene is related to what in the book is identified as the ‘classical regime of consolation’, derived from a number of consolatory writings that date from Antiquity (Crantor, Cicero, Seneca, ...). In the chapter’s closing section the classical regime of comfort is rel…
Speaking with the Dead
Fashioning Freedom for Shakespeare
This article focuses on the eclectic theoretical underpinnings of Stephen Greenblatt's new historicism. Taking the opening of Shakespeare's Freedom as our outset we examine the unique status of freedom that Shakespeare embodies in several of Greenblatt's books. In our analysis, we suggest that next to Foucault's post-structuralism, Sartre's existentialism is of equal importance to the understanding of his new historicism. To support this claim we…
Translations of the Sublime
Contrary to widely held assumptions, the early modern revival of ps-Longinus' On the Sublime did not begin with the adaptation published by Boileau in 1674; it was not connected solely with the Greek editions that began to appear from 1554; nor was its impact limited to rhetoric and literature. Manuscript copies began to circulate in Quattrocento Italy, but very few have been studied. Neither have the ways the sublime was used, in rhetoric and li…
Translations of the sublime
The present volume is a first attempt to chart the early modern translations of Peri hupsous, both in the literal sense of the history of its dissemination by means of editions, versions and translations in Latin and vernacular languages, but also in the figurative sense of its uses and transformations in the visual arts from 1500 to 1800
Editors’ Foreword
I was never a new historicist
An Unexpected Return
‘I undertake therefore to let myself be borne on by the force of any living life, forgetfulness. (. . .) Now comes perhaps the age of another experience: that of unlearning, of yielding to the unforeseeable change which forgetting imposes on the sedimentation of the knowledges, cultures, and beliefs we have traversed.’ (IL, 478)1 With this promise to deliver himself to the forces of forgetfulness, Roland Barthes concluded his inaugural lecture on…
Speaking With the Dead
This book deals with the special power of literary texts to put us in contact with the past. A large number of authors, coming from different ages, have described this power in terms of 'the conversation with the dead': when we read these texts, we somehow find ourselves conducting a special kind of dialogue with dead authors. The book covers a number of texts and authors that make use of this metaphor - Petrarch, Machiavelli, Sidney, Flaubert, M…
Speaking With the DeadExplorations in Literature and History
This book deals with the special power of literary texts to put us in contact with the past. A large number of authors, coming from different ages, have described this power in terms of 'the conversation with the dead': when we read these texts, we somehow find ourselves conducting a special kind of dialogue with dead authors.The book covers a number of texts and authors that make use of this metaphor - Petrarch, Machiavelli, Sidney, Flaubert, Mi…
Speaking With the Dead
The Historical Shiver
Be Silent Then, for Danger is in Words?. The Wonders of Reading and the Duties of Criticism
Past, Present and Future
Past, Present and Future: New Historicism versus Cultural Materialism Jürgen Pieters John Brannigan, New Historicism and Cultural Materialism. New York: MacMillan, 1998. One of the most conspicuous trends in the recent history of contemporary literary and cultural theory—a field dominated since the early eighties by the so-called “historical turn”—has been the extraordinarily rapid institutionalization of the twin movements of New Historicism and…
New Historicism
In recent discussionsof the work of new historicist critics like Stephen Greenblatt and Louis Montrose, it has oftenbeen remarked that the theory of history underlying their reading practice closely resembles thatof postmodern historiographers like Hayden White and Frank Ankersmit. Taking off from onesuch remark, the aim of the present article is twofold. First, I intend to provide a theoretical basisfrom which to substantiate the idea that new h…
Discursive Desire
This is an account of an interview with one of Britain's foremost literary theorists, Professor Catherine Belsey. The interview was conducted in Ghent, Belgium in 1997. The discussion spans all of Belsey's works, from the earliest, Critical Practice (1980), to her latest publication, Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden (1999). In this piece, Belsey openly and unpretentiously discusses her feminist commitment, her sometimes controversial critical pos…
Bantu Languages at the University of Leyden
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La deuxième décade de l'Afrique Noire
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New Historicism
In recent discussionsof the work of new historicist critics like Stephen Greenblatt and Louis Montrose, it has oftenbeen remarked that the theory of history underlying their reading practice closely resembles thatof postmodern historiographers like Hayden White and Frank Ankersmit. Taking off from onesuch remark, the aim of the present article is twofold. First, I intend to provide a theoretical basisfrom which to substantiate the idea that new h…
Bantu Languages at the University of Leyden
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Bantu Languages at the University of Leyden
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
La deuxième décade de l'Afrique Noire
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Past, Present and Future
Past, Present and Future: New Historicism versus Cultural Materialism Jürgen Pieters John Brannigan, New Historicism and Cultural Materialism. New York: MacMillan, 1998. One of the most conspicuous trends in the recent history of contemporary literary and cultural theory—a field dominated since the early eighties by the so-called “historical turn”—has been the extraordinarily rapid institutionalization of the twin movements of New Historicism and…
New Historicism
In recent discussionsof the work of new historicist critics like Stephen Greenblatt and Louis Montrose, it has oftenbeen remarked that the theory of history underlying their reading practice closely resembles thatof postmodern historiographers like Hayden White and Frank Ankersmit. Taking off from onesuch remark, the aim of the present article is twofold. First, I intend to provide a theoretical basisfrom which to substantiate the idea that new h…
Discursive Desire
This is an account of an interview with one of Britain's foremost literary theorists, Professor Catherine Belsey. The interview was conducted in Ghent, Belgium in 1997. The discussion spans all of Belsey's works, from the earliest, Critical Practice (1980), to her latest publication, Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden (1999). In this piece, Belsey openly and unpretentiously discusses her feminist commitment, her sometimes controversial critical pos…
Be Silent Then, for Danger is in Words?. The Wonders of Reading and the Duties of Criticism
Speaking With the Dead
This book deals with the special power of literary texts to put us in contact with the past. A large number of authors, coming from different ages, have described this power in terms of 'the conversation with the dead': when we read these texts, we somehow find ourselves conducting a special kind of dialogue with dead authors. The book covers a number of texts and authors that make use of this metaphor - Petrarch, Machiavelli, Sidney, Flaubert, M…
Speaking With the DeadExplorations in Literature and History
This book deals with the special power of literary texts to put us in contact with the past. A large number of authors, coming from different ages, have described this power in terms of 'the conversation with the dead': when we read these texts, we somehow find ourselves conducting a special kind of dialogue with dead authors.The book covers a number of texts and authors that make use of this metaphor - Petrarch, Machiavelli, Sidney, Flaubert, Mi…
Speaking With the Dead
The Historical Shiver
An Unexpected Return
‘I undertake therefore to let myself be borne on by the force of any living life, forgetfulness. (. . .) Now comes perhaps the age of another experience: that of unlearning, of yielding to the unforeseeable change which forgetting imposes on the sedimentation of the knowledges, cultures, and beliefs we have traversed.’ (IL, 478)1 With this promise to deliver himself to the forces of forgetfulness, Roland Barthes concluded his inaugural lecture on…
Editors’ Foreword
I was never a new historicist
Translations of the Sublime
Contrary to widely held assumptions, the early modern revival of ps-Longinus' On the Sublime did not begin with the adaptation published by Boileau in 1674; it was not connected solely with the Greek editions that began to appear from 1554; nor was its impact limited to rhetoric and literature. Manuscript copies began to circulate in Quattrocento Italy, but very few have been studied. Neither have the ways the sublime was used, in rhetoric and li…
Translations of the sublime
The present volume is a first attempt to chart the early modern translations of Peri hupsous, both in the literal sense of the history of its dissemination by means of editions, versions and translations in Latin and vernacular languages, but also in the figurative sense of its uses and transformations in the visual arts from 1500 to 1800
Fashioning Freedom for Shakespeare
This article focuses on the eclectic theoretical underpinnings of Stephen Greenblatt's new historicism. Taking the opening of Shakespeare's Freedom as our outset we examine the unique status of freedom that Shakespeare embodies in several of Greenblatt's books. In our analysis, we suggest that next to Foucault's post-structuralism, Sartre's existentialism is of equal importance to the understanding of his new historicism. To support this claim we…
Speaking with the Dead
Literature and Consolation
"By focusing on a number of significant moments in the interlocking histories of the book’s two central concepts--literature and consolation--this study makes readers aware of the premises that underlie the assumption that literary writings can bring comfort. What is it in literary texts that provides this special experience? How does literature help us to understand what consolation means and the effects it can have on individual readers? The in…
Literature and Consolation
The Classical Regime of Literary Comfort
This chapter starts from a close reading of the famous scene of consolation between Achilles and Priamos in the Iliad’ s closing book (Book 24). The logic of ‘eleos’ that governs the scene is related to what in the book is identified as the ‘classical regime of consolation’, derived from a number of consolatory writings that date from Antiquity (Crantor, Cicero, Seneca, ...). In the chapter’s closing section the classical regime of comfort is rel…
Bibliotherapy in practice
This workshop aims to present the outlines of a research project situated in the interdisciplinary research domain of bibliotherapy: the use of literature in healthcare contexts. With this project we want to demonstrate that different syndromes and pain experiences require a diversification of the (prescribed or non-prescribed) texts and the associated reading practice. On the one hand, the project aims to refine the international discourse of bi…
Art (14 works) · Literature (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · History (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Historicism (4 works) · New Historicism (4 works)