Douwe Fokkema
Biographic Data
| ID | 984302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douwe Fokkema |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douwe |
| FAMILY NAME | Fokkema |
| SIGNATURE | FOKKEMA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Perfect Worlds: Utopian Fiction in China and the West
Perfect Worlds offers an extensive historical analysis of utopian narratives in the Chinese and Euro-American traditions. This comparative study discusses finally the rise of dystopian writing ? a negative expression of the utopian impulse ? in Europe and America (Zamyatin, Huxley, Orwell, Bradbury, Atwood) as well as in China (Lao She, Wang Shuo, and others). The author observes that the utopian imagination thrives in a context of secularization…
Dialogue and Research: Cross-cultural Literary Studies
Dialogue and Research: Cross-cultural Literary Studies
Literary representations of risk: Terror, crime and punishment
All forms of terror seem to aim at the destruction of the individual experience and judgement of people. Part of our world is threatened by political terror (as represented first by Dostoevsky) or ethnic and cultural terror (as convincingly described by J. M. Coetzee), but it seems possible, at least in principle, to find an answer to these threats. Is religion the primary remedy against nihilism and, therefore, also against terrorism as Dostoevs…
Focus: China, tradition and modernity Introduction
This Introduction was written in November 2002, when the 16th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party was being held where more than 2000 delegates (representing 66 million Party members) decided on future policies and changes in the leadership. The way these decisions were prepared and endorsed reminds us how China differs from Western democracies. However, apart from the political structures, to what extent is China different? The following fiv…
Postmodernism and postmodernity: What do these terms mean and why are they successful
The various meanings of the terms ‘postmodernism’ and ‘postmodernity’ are traced; in various European languages these mean different things. Postmodernist discussion in the various arts is not synchronous. Postmodernism can be seen as the cultural expression of the times we supposedly live in, but are the achievements of modernity gone for ever
The relativity of cultural relativism
Although the author in an earlier publication (1971) has argued in favour of cultural relativism, recently he has become more critical of the concept, as it inevitably leads to an aporia. The concept of intercultural relativism has become blurred with intracultural relativism. The sharply increased communication between the various cultures has led to an increasing differentiation within these cultures and less differentiation between cultures. T…
A European canon of literature
For various reasons, the canon of literary works to be read in school has been criticized in recent years. The status of the canon, both as a concept with hierarchical connotations and as a particular set of texts, has been affected by developments in literary scholarship as well as by political views and new educational goals. However, teaching literature without the regulative idea of a canon is not very satisfactory. If we wish to select a lim…
The Cambridge History of China
Volume 15 of The Cambridge History of China is the second of two volumes dealing with the People's Republic of China since its birth in 1949. The harbingers of the Cultural Revolution were analyzed in Volume 14 and Volume 15 traces a course of events still only partially understood by most Chinese. It begins by analysing the development of Mao's thought since the Communist seizure of power, and, in doing so, attempts to understand why he launched…
Innovatie: Bijdragen tot het Symposion "Innovatie in Wetenschap, Kunst en Bedrijfsleven", Onderzoeksinstituut voor Geschiedenis en Cultuur, Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht
Deze bundel presenteert interdisciplinair onderzoek rond het thema innovatie. De krititische vragen die L.C. Brinkman, destijds minister van WVC, bij het begrip innovatie in de kunst stelt, worden beantwoord door de theater wetenschapper Henri Schoenmakers. De bijdragen op het gebied van muziek (Paul Op de Coul), architectuur (A.W. Reinink) en de letterkunde (Hans Bertens) gaan in op de spanning tussen conventie en innovatie. Deze spanning is ook…
Innovatie
Modernist Conjectures: A Mainstream in European Literature 1910-1940
On the Reliability of Literary Studies
In many parts of the world, the study of literature is under pressure. Severe and widely divergent demands are made on teachers and researchers in the field. I am not discussing the general demands to economize in education, particularly in the humanities, or the criticism that teachers of literature produce nothing but more teachers of literature. Of course, the utilitarian demand that what we do must be done cheaper and be more useful is a seri…
Exploring Postmodernism
Literary History, Modernism, and Postmodernism
In these lectures, delivered at Harvard University in March 1983, the differences between Modernism and Postmodernism are discussed in semiotic terms, based on a contrastive analysis of semantic and syntactical (compositional) features. They present the major results of research into the literary conventions of Modernism (Gide, Larbaud, V. Woolf, du Perron, Th. Mann) and the innovations of Postmodernism (Borges, Fuentes, Barthelme, Calvino, Herma…
The Concept of Code in the Study of Literature
In 1966, in a characterization of Russian Formalism, Girard Genette observed that literature had been considered as a message without a for so long that it had become necessary to consider it for a while as a without a message (Genette 1966:150). In this connection Genette quoted Roman Jakobson's definition of literariness (literaturnost'), but he could as well have referred to Shklovskij's one-sided interest in devices of literature and in makin…
A Semiotic Definition of Aesthetic Experience and the Period Code of Modernism: With Reference to an Interpretation of Les Faux-Monnayeurs
In the absence of a consensus of what literature is and how it is to be defined, many students of literature believe that the problem can be circumvented by disregarding the literary nature of their object. This tendency has given rise first to narratology, which is concerned with narrative, irrespective of whether it is received as being literary or nonliterary, and second to the study of texts in general (text grammar, Textwissenschaft, etc.), …
Theories of Literature in the Twentieth Century: Structuralism, Marxism, Aesthetics of Reception, Semiotics
The Forms and Values of Contemporary Chinese Literature
N THIS PAPER a number of generalizing hypotheses will be advanced about the predominant features of the literary forms and values of contemporary, post-1949 Chinese literature. In some respects the prevailing forms and values of contemporary Chinese literature are the outcome of a long literary tradition, whereas in other respects they are the result of a reevaluation of the traditional values and the introduction of new ones
Report from Peking-Observations of a Western Diplomat on the Cultural Revolution
Chinese Criticism of Humanism: Campaigns Against the Intellectuals 1964–1965
During the heyday of the Hundred Flowers period the Chinese literary rebels sought their models outside China. They understood that, if liberalisation were to have any chance at all, it should reach China via the communist countries and not via the Western world. Therefore many Chinese writers studied Soviet literature, and made no secret of their admiration for those Soviet writers who had presented unorthodox views, or views that, though correc…
Literary Doctrine in China and Soviet influence: 1956–1960
Focus: China, tradition and modernity Introduction
This Introduction was written in November 2002, when the 16th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party was being held where more than 2000 delegates (representing 66 million Party members) decided on future policies and changes in the leadership. The way these decisions were prepared and endorsed reminds us how China differs from Western democracies. However, apart from the political structures, to what extent is China different? The following fiv…
Postmodernism and postmodernity: What do these terms mean and why are they successful
The various meanings of the terms ‘postmodernism’ and ‘postmodernity’ are traced; in various European languages these mean different things. Postmodernist discussion in the various arts is not synchronous. Postmodernism can be seen as the cultural expression of the times we supposedly live in, but are the achievements of modernity gone for ever
On the Reliability of Literary Studies
In many parts of the world, the study of literature is under pressure. Severe and widely divergent demands are made on teachers and researchers in the field. I am not discussing the general demands to economize in education, particularly in the humanities, or the criticism that teachers of literature produce nothing but more teachers of literature. Of course, the utilitarian demand that what we do must be done cheaper and be more useful is a seri…
A Semiotic Definition of Aesthetic Experience and the Period Code of Modernism: With Reference to an Interpretation of Les Faux-Monnayeurs
In the absence of a consensus of what literature is and how it is to be defined, many students of literature believe that the problem can be circumvented by disregarding the literary nature of their object. This tendency has given rise first to narratology, which is concerned with narrative, irrespective of whether it is received as being literary or nonliterary, and second to the study of texts in general (text grammar, Textwissenschaft, etc.), …
The Forms and Values of Contemporary Chinese Literature
N THIS PAPER a number of generalizing hypotheses will be advanced about the predominant features of the literary forms and values of contemporary, post-1949 Chinese literature. In some respects the prevailing forms and values of contemporary Chinese literature are the outcome of a long literary tradition, whereas in other respects they are the result of a reevaluation of the traditional values and the introduction of new ones
Literary Doctrine in China and Soviet influence: 1956–1960
Chinese Criticism of Humanism: Campaigns Against the Intellectuals 1964–1965
During the heyday of the Hundred Flowers period the Chinese literary rebels sought their models outside China. They understood that, if liberalisation were to have any chance at all, it should reach China via the communist countries and not via the Western world. Therefore many Chinese writers studied Soviet literature, and made no secret of their admiration for those Soviet writers who had presented unorthodox views, or views that, though correc…
The Forms and Values of Contemporary Chinese Literature
N THIS PAPER a number of generalizing hypotheses will be advanced about the predominant features of the literary forms and values of contemporary, post-1949 Chinese literature. In some respects the prevailing forms and values of contemporary Chinese literature are the outcome of a long literary tradition, whereas in other respects they are the result of a reevaluation of the traditional values and the introduction of new ones
Report from Peking-Observations of a Western Diplomat on the Cultural Revolution
Theories of Literature in the Twentieth Century: Structuralism, Marxism, Aesthetics of Reception, Semiotics
A Semiotic Definition of Aesthetic Experience and the Period Code of Modernism: With Reference to an Interpretation of Les Faux-Monnayeurs
In the absence of a consensus of what literature is and how it is to be defined, many students of literature believe that the problem can be circumvented by disregarding the literary nature of their object. This tendency has given rise first to narratology, which is concerned with narrative, irrespective of whether it is received as being literary or nonliterary, and second to the study of texts in general (text grammar, Textwissenschaft, etc.), …
Literary History, Modernism, and Postmodernism
In these lectures, delivered at Harvard University in March 1983, the differences between Modernism and Postmodernism are discussed in semiotic terms, based on a contrastive analysis of semantic and syntactical (compositional) features. They present the major results of research into the literary conventions of Modernism (Gide, Larbaud, V. Woolf, du Perron, Th. Mann) and the innovations of Postmodernism (Borges, Fuentes, Barthelme, Calvino, Herma…
The Concept of Code in the Study of Literature
In 1966, in a characterization of Russian Formalism, Girard Genette observed that literature had been considered as a message without a for so long that it had become necessary to consider it for a while as a without a message (Genette 1966:150). In this connection Genette quoted Roman Jakobson's definition of literariness (literaturnost'), but he could as well have referred to Shklovskij's one-sided interest in devices of literature and in makin…
On the Reliability of Literary Studies
In many parts of the world, the study of literature is under pressure. Severe and widely divergent demands are made on teachers and researchers in the field. I am not discussing the general demands to economize in education, particularly in the humanities, or the criticism that teachers of literature produce nothing but more teachers of literature. Of course, the utilitarian demand that what we do must be done cheaper and be more useful is a seri…
Exploring Postmodernism
Modernist Conjectures: A Mainstream in European Literature 1910-1940
Innovatie: Bijdragen tot het Symposion "Innovatie in Wetenschap, Kunst en Bedrijfsleven", Onderzoeksinstituut voor Geschiedenis en Cultuur, Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht
Deze bundel presenteert interdisciplinair onderzoek rond het thema innovatie. De krititische vragen die L.C. Brinkman, destijds minister van WVC, bij het begrip innovatie in de kunst stelt, worden beantwoord door de theater wetenschapper Henri Schoenmakers. De bijdragen op het gebied van muziek (Paul Op de Coul), architectuur (A.W. Reinink) en de letterkunde (Hans Bertens) gaan in op de spanning tussen conventie en innovatie. Deze spanning is ook…
Innovatie
The Cambridge History of China
Volume 15 of The Cambridge History of China is the second of two volumes dealing with the People's Republic of China since its birth in 1949. The harbingers of the Cultural Revolution were analyzed in Volume 14 and Volume 15 traces a course of events still only partially understood by most Chinese. It begins by analysing the development of Mao's thought since the Communist seizure of power, and, in doing so, attempts to understand why he launched…
The relativity of cultural relativism
Although the author in an earlier publication (1971) has argued in favour of cultural relativism, recently he has become more critical of the concept, as it inevitably leads to an aporia. The concept of intercultural relativism has become blurred with intracultural relativism. The sharply increased communication between the various cultures has led to an increasing differentiation within these cultures and less differentiation between cultures. T…
A European canon of literature
For various reasons, the canon of literary works to be read in school has been criticized in recent years. The status of the canon, both as a concept with hierarchical connotations and as a particular set of texts, has been affected by developments in literary scholarship as well as by political views and new educational goals. However, teaching literature without the regulative idea of a canon is not very satisfactory. If we wish to select a lim…
Postmodernism and postmodernity: What do these terms mean and why are they successful
The various meanings of the terms ‘postmodernism’ and ‘postmodernity’ are traced; in various European languages these mean different things. Postmodernist discussion in the various arts is not synchronous. Postmodernism can be seen as the cultural expression of the times we supposedly live in, but are the achievements of modernity gone for ever
Literary representations of risk: Terror, crime and punishment
All forms of terror seem to aim at the destruction of the individual experience and judgement of people. Part of our world is threatened by political terror (as represented first by Dostoevsky) or ethnic and cultural terror (as convincingly described by J. M. Coetzee), but it seems possible, at least in principle, to find an answer to these threats. Is religion the primary remedy against nihilism and, therefore, also against terrorism as Dostoevs…
Focus: China, tradition and modernity Introduction
This Introduction was written in November 2002, when the 16th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party was being held where more than 2000 delegates (representing 66 million Party members) decided on future policies and changes in the leadership. The way these decisions were prepared and endorsed reminds us how China differs from Western democracies. However, apart from the political structures, to what extent is China different? The following fiv…
Dialogue and Research: Cross-cultural Literary Studies
Dialogue and Research: Cross-cultural Literary Studies
Perfect Worlds: Utopian Fiction in China and the West
Perfect Worlds offers an extensive historical analysis of utopian narratives in the Chinese and Euro-American traditions. This comparative study discusses finally the rise of dystopian writing ? a negative expression of the utopian impulse ? in Europe and America (Zamyatin, Huxley, Orwell, Bradbury, Atwood) as well as in China (Lao She, Wang Shuo, and others). The author observes that the utopian imagination thrives in a context of secularization…
Philosophy (13 works) · Art (11 works) · Literature (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · China (6 works)