Inge Van De Ven
Biographic Data
| ID | 907969 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Inge Van De Ven |
| GIVEN NAMES | Inge |
| FAMILY NAME | Van De Ven |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DE VEN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tilburg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7237-3779 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The “Making Up” of Mad Women in Literature
This article examines how contemporary domestic noir fiction and its online reception relate to the pathologization of women’s testimony. Combining feminist narratology, critical phenomenology, and Ian Hacking’s concept of “making up people,” we analyze Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train and A.J. Finn’s The Woman in the Window alongside Goodreads reviews of both novels. We argue that these texts mobilize women’s psychological distress—addictio…
Trust Nobody! Conspiratorial Storytelling and Paranoid Reading in the Dutch Reality TV Gameshow Wie Is de Mol
Suspicion has become a central mode of engagement in contemporary media, shaping how audiences interpret both political and entertainment content. Reality TV formats that rely on secrecy and deception encourage viewers to question appearances and evaluate trustworthiness, yet the role of conspiratorial reasoning in such shows remains underexplored. This article examines Wie is de Mol? , a Dutch reality game where contestants unmask a saboteur. Dr…
Onbetrouwbare vertellers binnen en buiten het boek
On social media platforms, we are bombarded with small stories, which end up in unpredictable contexts with unforeseen recipients, who actively shape the narrative and become co-authors. As an effect, the unreliable narrator – once a concept reserved for literary criticism – is everywhere. I argue for an expansion of narratological frameworks to better understand the dynamics of trust and unreliability in platformed attention economies, by lookin…
‘Gonna get you, baby!’ A qualitative-empirical study of attentional modulation in reading a short story
How do individual readers determine where to allocate and how to modulate attention while reading a short story? To what extent are their attentional modulations influenced by textual characteristics and personal characteristics? This study uses response data from group discussions of the short story “Where are you going, where have you been?” by Joyce Carol Oates (1966). Participants read the story in advance, color-coding words or lines to indi…
It's Not a Game! Rules of Notice and Hermeneutics of Suspicion in Contemporary FMV Games
This article reflects on the resurgence of Full Motion Video (FMV) games, focusing on Her Story (2015), The Infectious Madness of Dr Dekker (2017), Telling Lies (2019), Contradiction (2015), and The Shapeshifting Detective (2018). Such titles have been derided for their lack of interactivity, and indeed afford the player limited agency in terms of concrete actions. They rely on the player's imagination in suturing the images together and in formi…
Filter bubbles and guru effects
In this article, we critically reflect on the role of Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson as a public intellectual in an increasingly hybrid, interconnected, and plural public sphere. In today’s attention economy, and in the face of a general climate of scepticism and crisis of expertise, we are faced with the limits of the liberal ideal of the public intellectual who filters information for the public. In fact, we argue, the public intellectua…
Digital hermeneutics
When it comes to understanding experiences of illness, humanities and social sciences research have traditionally reserved a prominent role for narrative. Yet, depression has characteristics that withstand the form of traditional narratives, such as a lack of desire and an impotence to act. How can a 'datafied' approach to online forms of depression writing pose a valuable addition to existing narrative approaches in health humanities? In this ar…
Intimate distractions
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s series Fleabag (BBC/Amazon Prime, 2016-‘19) has been praised for its revitalization of direct address. Whereas this device is often used to foster intimacy between character and audience, I argue that Fleabag problematizes this. I examine the nature of Fleabag’s address through the lens of habits of constant connectivity in online attention economies in conjunction with gendered norms of self-representation on social media,…
Gut feelings
Current debates about the possible causes of depression reinforce the age-old body-mind dualism: while some claim that depression is caused by psychological or societal stress, others underline that it results from a shortage of the neurotransmitter serotonin in the central nervous system. This paper shows that Michel Houellebecq's latest novel Serotonin can be read as an account of depression that goes beyond this body-mind dualism. Moreover, we…
Guys and Dolls
Research Article| October 01 2020 Guys and Dolls: Gender, Scale, and the Book in Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels and Karl Ove Knausgård's Min kamp Inge van de Ven Inge van de Ven Tilburg University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2020) 92 (3): 296–324. https://doi.org/10.5406/scanstud.92.3.0296 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Inge …
Guys and Dolls
The Italian Elena Ferrante and the Norwegian Karl Ove Knausgård have both recently achieved worldwide fame with book series that are epic in scale, with sweeping panoramic scopes and undeniably maximalist qualities. Knausgård’s Min kamp comprises six novels amounting to roughly 3,600 pages
Big Books in Times of Big Data
Big Books in Times of Big Data examines recent trends of size and scale in the novel in terms of the shift from the bound book to the newer materialities of the digital. Using a wide-ranging international archive of hefty tomes by authors such as Mark Z. Danielewski, Roberto Bolaño, Elena Ferrante, and Karl Ove Knausgård, George R.R. Martin, Jonathan Franzen, and William T. Vollmann, Van de Ven reflects on the place of big book-bound literature i…
Filter bubbles and guru effects
In this article, we critically reflect on the role of Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson as a public intellectual in an increasingly hybrid, interconnected, and plural public sphere. In today’s attention economy, and in the face of a general climate of scepticism and crisis of expertise, we are faced with the limits of the liberal ideal of the public intellectual who filters information for the public. In fact, we argue, the public intellectua…
Gut feelings
Current debates about the possible causes of depression reinforce the age-old body-mind dualism: while some claim that depression is caused by psychological or societal stress, others underline that it results from a shortage of the neurotransmitter serotonin in the central nervous system. This paper shows that Michel Houellebecq's latest novel Serotonin can be read as an account of depression that goes beyond this body-mind dualism. Moreover, we…
Intimate distractions
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s series Fleabag (BBC/Amazon Prime, 2016-‘19) has been praised for its revitalization of direct address. Whereas this device is often used to foster intimacy between character and audience, I argue that Fleabag problematizes this. I examine the nature of Fleabag’s address through the lens of habits of constant connectivity in online attention economies in conjunction with gendered norms of self-representation on social media,…
Big Books in Times of Big Data
Big Books in Times of Big Data examines recent trends of size and scale in the novel in terms of the shift from the bound book to the newer materialities of the digital. Using a wide-ranging international archive of hefty tomes by authors such as Mark Z. Danielewski, Roberto Bolaño, Elena Ferrante, and Karl Ove Knausgård, George R.R. Martin, Jonathan Franzen, and William T. Vollmann, Van de Ven reflects on the place of big book-bound literature i…
Gut feelings
Current debates about the possible causes of depression reinforce the age-old body-mind dualism: while some claim that depression is caused by psychological or societal stress, others underline that it results from a shortage of the neurotransmitter serotonin in the central nervous system. This paper shows that Michel Houellebecq's latest novel Serotonin can be read as an account of depression that goes beyond this body-mind dualism. Moreover, we…
Guys and Dolls
Research Article| October 01 2020 Guys and Dolls: Gender, Scale, and the Book in Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels and Karl Ove Knausgård's Min kamp Inge van de Ven Inge van de Ven Tilburg University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2020) 92 (3): 296–324. https://doi.org/10.5406/scanstud.92.3.0296 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Inge …
Guys and Dolls
The Italian Elena Ferrante and the Norwegian Karl Ove Knausgård have both recently achieved worldwide fame with book series that are epic in scale, with sweeping panoramic scopes and undeniably maximalist qualities. Knausgård’s Min kamp comprises six novels amounting to roughly 3,600 pages
Digital hermeneutics
When it comes to understanding experiences of illness, humanities and social sciences research have traditionally reserved a prominent role for narrative. Yet, depression has characteristics that withstand the form of traditional narratives, such as a lack of desire and an impotence to act. How can a 'datafied' approach to online forms of depression writing pose a valuable addition to existing narrative approaches in health humanities? In this ar…
Intimate distractions
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s series Fleabag (BBC/Amazon Prime, 2016-‘19) has been praised for its revitalization of direct address. Whereas this device is often used to foster intimacy between character and audience, I argue that Fleabag problematizes this. I examine the nature of Fleabag’s address through the lens of habits of constant connectivity in online attention economies in conjunction with gendered norms of self-representation on social media,…
Filter bubbles and guru effects
In this article, we critically reflect on the role of Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson as a public intellectual in an increasingly hybrid, interconnected, and plural public sphere. In today’s attention economy, and in the face of a general climate of scepticism and crisis of expertise, we are faced with the limits of the liberal ideal of the public intellectual who filters information for the public. In fact, we argue, the public intellectua…
‘Gonna get you, baby!’ A qualitative-empirical study of attentional modulation in reading a short story
How do individual readers determine where to allocate and how to modulate attention while reading a short story? To what extent are their attentional modulations influenced by textual characteristics and personal characteristics? This study uses response data from group discussions of the short story “Where are you going, where have you been?” by Joyce Carol Oates (1966). Participants read the story in advance, color-coding words or lines to indi…
It's Not a Game! Rules of Notice and Hermeneutics of Suspicion in Contemporary FMV Games
This article reflects on the resurgence of Full Motion Video (FMV) games, focusing on Her Story (2015), The Infectious Madness of Dr Dekker (2017), Telling Lies (2019), Contradiction (2015), and The Shapeshifting Detective (2018). Such titles have been derided for their lack of interactivity, and indeed afford the player limited agency in terms of concrete actions. They rely on the player's imagination in suturing the images together and in formi…
Onbetrouwbare vertellers binnen en buiten het boek
On social media platforms, we are bombarded with small stories, which end up in unpredictable contexts with unforeseen recipients, who actively shape the narrative and become co-authors. As an effect, the unreliable narrator – once a concept reserved for literary criticism – is everywhere. I argue for an expansion of narratological frameworks to better understand the dynamics of trust and unreliability in platformed attention economies, by lookin…
The “Making Up” of Mad Women in Literature
This article examines how contemporary domestic noir fiction and its online reception relate to the pathologization of women’s testimony. Combining feminist narratology, critical phenomenology, and Ian Hacking’s concept of “making up people,” we analyze Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train and A.J. Finn’s The Woman in the Window alongside Goodreads reviews of both novels. We argue that these texts mobilize women’s psychological distress—addictio…
Trust Nobody! Conspiratorial Storytelling and Paranoid Reading in the Dutch Reality TV Gameshow Wie Is de Mol
Suspicion has become a central mode of engagement in contemporary media, shaping how audiences interpret both political and entertainment content. Reality TV formats that rely on secrecy and deception encourage viewers to question appearances and evaluate trustworthiness, yet the role of conspiratorial reasoning in such shows remains underexplored. This article examines Wie is de Mol? , a Dutch reality game where contestants unmask a saboteur. Dr…
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