120 search results for “literature and poetry” in the Library website
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Frans Willem Korsten
Faculty of Humanities
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Nadine Akkerman
Faculty of Humanities
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Donation enables digitisation of Chinese unofficial poetry journals
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has received a donation from Dr. Freerk Heule to digitise and publish an internationally unique collection of unofficial (minjian) poetry journals from China. These poetry journals are produced outside the official infrastructure for literature in China for literature…
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Francesco Busti
Faculty of Humanities
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Esther Op de Beek
Faculty of Humanities
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Ronald Kon
Faculty of Humanities
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Tommie van Wanrooij
Faculty of Humanities
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Olf Praamstra
Faculty of Humanities
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Marie Guilleray-Guénanff
Faculty of Humanities
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Friendship in poetry - a reading list
How do we view friendship? And how have writers throughout the ages described that unconditional bond of trust in poems and literature? It's Poetry Week! And you guessed it; this year's theme is 'Friendship'. For this reading list, we went through our collections in search of the many ways friendship…
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Mineke Schipper-de Leeuw
Faculty of Humanities
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Joe Fortin
Faculty of Humanities
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Claudia Bouteligier
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jan van Dijkhuizen
Faculty of Humanities
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Chinese unofficial poetry journals now accessible in Digital Collections
Leiden University Libraries has made a large number of unofficial poetry journals from China accessible online in its Digital Collections. This opens up thousands of pages from an internationally unique collection of unofficial Chinese poetry for teaching, research, and the general public, including…
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Joan Booth
Faculty of Humanities
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Peter Liebregts
Faculty of Humanities
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A DIY tradition goes online: unofficial poetry from China in Digital Collections
Close to twenty thousand pages of new material have been added to the online collection of unofficial poetry journals from China in the Leiden Digital Collections. Produced “outside the system,” these journals are hugely influential yet very hard to find. To address this paradox, Leiden University Libraries…
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Annelies Schulte Nordholt
Faculty of Humanities
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Jonathan Price
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Geert Warnar
Faculty of Humanities
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Louise Glück is awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
The 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to American poet Louise Glück (1942-). This means the Nobel committee passed by authors like Anne Carson, Jamaica Kincaid en Maryse Condé, many of whom were tipped by academics and literary critics as being strong contenders for the prize in 2020.…
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Wilt Idema
Faculty of Humanities
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Christoph Pieper
Faculty of Humanities
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Ako Tsujita
Faculty of Humanities
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poets, political language turned on its head, and more: unofficial poetry from China in Digital Collections
Over 30.000 pages of new material have been added to the online collection of unofficial poetry publications from China in the Leiden Digital Collections. Produced outside the system, these journals and books are hugely influential yet very hard to find. To address this paradox, Leiden University Libraries…
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Evert Jan van Leeuwen
Faculty of Humanities
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Paula Esteves dos Santos Jordao
Faculty of Humanities
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Ton Anbeek van der Meyden
Faculty of Humanities
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Yasco Horsman
Faculty of Humanities
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Olga van Marion
Faculty of Humanities
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‘Literature explores all sorts of things that the law is not yet ready for’
As Professor of Literature, Culture and Law, Frans Willem Korsten explores the interplay between literature and law. These are two disciplines that most people wouldn’t immediately connect, but Korsten can see a lot of common ground between them. ‘A fictional story can have a huge impact on law.’
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Modern Literature from the Middle East - The Reading List
The Middle East has a rich literary tradition, which is steadily gaining a foothold in the West. Modern literary works deal with contemporary issues, such as the legacy of colonialism, the struggles between traditionalism and modernity, the place of women in society and the war in Israel/Palestine.
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Rolf Bremmer
Faculty of Humanities
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Paul Smith
Faculty of Humanities
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Julia Szirmai
Faculty of Humanities
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Eric van Hoof
Bestuursbureau
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Marcos Neto de Cordova
Faculty of Humanities
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Gabrielle van den Berg
Faculty of Humanities
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Céline Zaepffel
Faculty of Humanities
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Southeast Asian Special Collections
The Southeast Asian Special Collections contain text and audiovisual materials pertaining to the languages, histories, philosophies, religions, literatures, and (material) art of the region. The focus lies on the Malay world, in particular on the Nederlands-Indies/Indonesia. Apart from books and periodicals…
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Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah - a reading list
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Tanzanian author Abdulrazak Gurnah. The Swedish Academy praises Gurnah's "uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents". The works in the reading…
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Judith Bosnak
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim Tigges
Faculty of Humanities
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Andries Hiskes
Faculty of Humanities
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Rieneke Sonnevelt
Faculty of Humanities
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Johannes Müller
Faculty of Humanities
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Ernst van Alphen
Faculty of Humanities
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Anne Sytske Keijser
Faculty of Humanities
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Yinzhi Zhang
Faculty of Humanities