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Prof. Dr. Jurgen Pieters
Prof. Dr. Jurgen Pieters
jurgen.pieters@ugent.be
Department
Department of Literary Studies
Research group(s)
CCROC - Critical and Comparative Research on Culture
GEMS - Group for Early Modern Studies
SARTON - Sarton Centre for History of Science
THALIA - Interplay of Theatre, Literature & Media in Performance
Research Focus
Literary studies
Additional tags
Comparative literary studies
Early Modern literature
Health and Medical Humanities
Literary history
Literary theory
Tabgroup
Projects
Projects as supervisor
In Looking Back, Becoming Modern: Shifting Discourses on 'Latin Renaissance' in the French and Italian Literary Fields, 1870-1915
(
2023
-
2026
)
Writing the past in exile. The interwar Russian émigré historical novel (1917-1939)
(
2018
-
2022
)
Across generations and genres. The legacy of the holocaust in Dutch-Jewish literature
(
2015
-
2019
)
Istanbul in the writings of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar and Orhan Pamuk. A bhabhian reading of the cultural identity of modern Turkey
(
2014
-
2018
)
Hybrid literature, hybrid agency. The status of the literary text in Edward Said’s cultural analysis
(
2013
-
2017
)
Visions on authorship in Middle Dutch literature (c. 1200 – c. 1550) and the reproducti
(
2013
-
2017
)
Constantijn Huygens' treatise on the organ. A cultural-historical and musicological analysis
(
2012
-
1900
)
Gouvernementalité (Foucault) and self-fashioning (Greenblatt). Models of early-modern subjectification
(
2011
-
2015
)
This is my body broken for thee. Early modern sacralization of literature, the case of Vondel's 'Altaergeheimenissen' and Huygens' 'Avondmaalsgedichten'
(
2011
-
2014
)
On the use of images in narrative prose. An Iserian analysis
(
2011
-
2015
)
To distance the near past. The representation of the French revolution in English and Dutch literary texts (1785-1795)
(
2011
-
2015
)
Renaissance metonymy in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
(
2010
-
2014
)
Early modern theater and 'governmentality' (Foucault). Three Vondel plays reconsidered
(
2009
-
2013
)
Early modern poethood and selfhood. The representation of the urban individual in Eduard de Dene's 'Testament Rhetoricael'
(
2009
-
2012
)
National history in Dutch epics (1766-1795). Formation of a historical experience?
(
2008
-
2011
)
The author as reader. V. Nabokov’s 'lectures on literature'
(
2008
-
2015
)
Self-reflection and the formation of identity in the early-modern period. Coornhert and Charron
(
2008
-
2012
)
Describing the new world in the early modern period. The case of Dutch Brazil (1624-1654)
(
2008
-
2015
)
A subtler diplomacy. Kenneth Burke and the new criticism
(
2007
-
2013
)
Postdramatic theatre and performance as technologies of remembrance in a postmodern culture of memory
(
2007
-
2011
)
Constantijn Huygens’ 'Ooghen-troost'. Towards an electronic editions and on the theories of (inter)textuality
(
2007
-
2011
)
Reading towards the light. Constantijn Huygens' 'Ooghentroost' at the beginnings of modernity
(
2007
-
2011
)
The concept of community in the political philosophy of Arendt, Nancy, Lyotard and Blanchot
(
2006
-
2012
)
Je veux vous rappeler l'histoire de la maladie. Cognitive value and narrativity of the naturalist prose by Cyriel Buysse and Marcellus Emants
(
2005
-
2010
)
The rhetoric of madness. Speech acts, narrative unreliabilty, and delirum in three mad first-person narratives
(
2004
-
2008
)
Rejoicing in the nobility of human nature. The sublime in the Netherlands (1770-1830)
(
2004
-
2007
)
The perverse art of reading. On Roland Barthes' fantasmagoric semiology. The courses at the Collège de France
(
2003
-
2007
)
Between human and hero. Cruelty and desire in Sarah Kane, Tom Stoppard and Samuel Beckett
(
2001
-
2005
)
Power and human affairs. Retorics as a performative strategy in the joyous entry of 1549 (Antwerp)
(
2001
-
2005
)
Tears for every day life. The desire for naturalness and the representations of bourgeois identity in drama and theater of the Austrian Netherlands
(
1999
-
2005
)
Projects as co-supervisor
Rerouting the 'ridderroman'. Adaptation strategies in the poetics of the 14th-century Middle Dutch ridderroman
(
2021
-
2025
)
Radical revenge? Revenge tragedy and providential thinking in the Dutch Republic, 1638-1678
(
2018
-
2022
)
Publications
Most recent publications
Pieters, Jurgen.
Boekenzorg En Ziekenzorg : Over de Bittere Pil Die Literatuur Heet
. Het Gemenebest, 2023.
Pieters, Jurgen. “Het Ongrijpbare Hart van Shakespeare.”
POEZIEKRANT
, vol. 45, no. 2, Poëziecentrum, 2021, pp. 56–60.
Pieters, Jurgen. “Een Teutoonse Borges? De Grenzen van Woestijnen (1989).”
Hertmans Handboek
, edited by Lars Bernaerts and Carl De Strycker, Poëziecentrum, 2021, pp. 55–60.
Pieters, Jurgen.
Leeskwesties
. Borgerhoff & Lamberigts / Owl Press, 2021.
Pieters, Jurgen. “Het Verkeren van de Zeventiende-Eeuwse Dichter : Over Leven En Reputatie van G.A. Bredero (1585-1618).”
Ons Erfdeel
, vol. 62, no. 1, 2019, pp. 145–47.
Full bibliography
Teaching
Poetics
Theory of Literature II
Literature and Criticism
Literature and Care
Introduction to Literary Studies