"Making the Personal Political is an interdisciplinary account of a now forgotten success story in the history of the society and culture of the Netherlands. While Dutch women had apparently retreated into domesticity after gaining the vote in 1919, women writers were out there in the market place selling the inside story of women's lives. Eight case studies of women writers between 1919 and 1970 trace the unconscious politics of the personal in narratives of women's identity and experienc...

Dutch Translation in Practice provides an accessible and engaging course in modern Dutch translation. Taking a highly practical approach, it introduces students to the essential concepts of translation studies, heightens their awareness of the problems posed in Dutch translation, and teaches them how to tackle these difficulties successfully. Featured texts have been carefully chosen for their thematic and technical relevance, and a wide range of discursive and grammatical issues ...

Un classico d’inizio Novecento, tra i capolavori della letteratura olandese, nella sua prima traduzione italiana. Due personaggi, il poeta Camões esiliato a Macao e un reietto irlandese imbarcato su una nave diretta in Oriente, incrociano i loro percorsi a quattro secoli di distanza, in un gioco affascinante di identità, sdoppiamenti e allucinazioni. Un’esemplare parabola dell’alienazione dell’individuo in un mondo ostile, ma anche una critica al colonialismo europeo in terra d’Oriente, al...