Bram Mertens
Biographic Data
| ID | 4079331 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bram Mertens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bram |
| FAMILY NAME | Mertens |
| SIGNATURE | MERTENS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2347-2081 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hoop op iets vaags: Ambiguity, unreliability and indeterminacy in Erwin Mortier’s Marcel (1999)
Erwin Mortier’s acclaimed debut novel Marcel, first published nearly twenty years ago, tells the story of a Flemish family haunted by a dark past: the involvement of several members in the wartime collaboration with the German occupier. The novel has usually been read as a narrative of reconciliation, showing the often painful process of successive generations gradually gaining some understanding of the past and coming to terms with it, before be…
The Use and Abuse of Memory: Interpreting World War II in Contemporary European Politics
This chapter presents a brief theoretical outline and contextualization in Austria's postwar history. It reveals several dimensions that structure, or divide, the country's mythscape: top-down and bottom-up historical analogies; invocations—for very different purposes—of World War II by far-right extremists and some on or near the political left respectively; transnational debates with Austrian contributors or audiences. Returning to the prom con…
(Judicious) Interpretation: Walter Benjamin Reads the Early German Romantics
In his doctoral dissertation—The Concept of Criticism in German Romanticism, finished in 1919 and published as a book in 1920—Walter Benjamin explores the epistemological and aesthetic foundations of the concept of criticism expounded by the early German Romantics Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis. Many of the themes in the dissertation recur in his later work, which has led scholars to believe that much of Benjamin's thought is directly influenced …
An Explosion of Vitality and Creativity’? Memory and Historiography of the Second World War in Belgium and the Netherlands
The construction of narratives of the Second World War and its aftermath in the Netherlands and in Belgium is investigated, both in public opinion and amongst historians. The argument is presented that a popular public consensus about the War in the Netherlands, actively supported by the government, was developed immediately after the war and remained in place until it was challenged by historians in the eighties. In Belgium, on the other hand, p…
This Still Remarkable Book: Franz Joseph Molitor's Judaeo-Christian Synthesis
(2002). 'This Still Remarkable Book': Franz Joseph Molitor's Judaeo-Christian Synthesis. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 167-181
An Explosion of Vitality and Creativity’? Memory and Historiography of the Second World War in Belgium and the Netherlands
The construction of narratives of the Second World War and its aftermath in the Netherlands and in Belgium is investigated, both in public opinion and amongst historians. The argument is presented that a popular public consensus about the War in the Netherlands, actively supported by the government, was developed immediately after the war and remained in place until it was challenged by historians in the eighties. In Belgium, on the other hand, p…
This Still Remarkable Book: Franz Joseph Molitor's Judaeo-Christian Synthesis
(2002). 'This Still Remarkable Book': Franz Joseph Molitor's Judaeo-Christian Synthesis. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 167-181
An Explosion of Vitality and Creativity’? Memory and Historiography of the Second World War in Belgium and the Netherlands
The construction of narratives of the Second World War and its aftermath in the Netherlands and in Belgium is investigated, both in public opinion and amongst historians. The argument is presented that a popular public consensus about the War in the Netherlands, actively supported by the government, was developed immediately after the war and remained in place until it was challenged by historians in the eighties. In Belgium, on the other hand, p…
(Judicious) Interpretation: Walter Benjamin Reads the Early German Romantics
In his doctoral dissertation—The Concept of Criticism in German Romanticism, finished in 1919 and published as a book in 1920—Walter Benjamin explores the epistemological and aesthetic foundations of the concept of criticism expounded by the early German Romantics Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis. Many of the themes in the dissertation recur in his later work, which has led scholars to believe that much of Benjamin's thought is directly influenced …
The Use and Abuse of Memory: Interpreting World War II in Contemporary European Politics
This chapter presents a brief theoretical outline and contextualization in Austria's postwar history. It reveals several dimensions that structure, or divide, the country's mythscape: top-down and bottom-up historical analogies; invocations—for very different purposes—of World War II by far-right extremists and some on or near the political left respectively; transnational debates with Austrian contributors or audiences. Returning to the prom con…
Hoop op iets vaags: Ambiguity, unreliability and indeterminacy in Erwin Mortier’s Marcel (1999)
Erwin Mortier’s acclaimed debut novel Marcel, first published nearly twenty years ago, tells the story of a Flemish family haunted by a dark past: the involvement of several members in the wartime collaboration with the German occupier. The novel has usually been read as a narrative of reconciliation, showing the often painful process of successive generations gradually gaining some understanding of the past and coming to terms with it, before be…
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