TNTL 119/2

Joost van Driel

Stijlen van onderzoek
Anderhalve eeuw medioneerlandistiek vanuit stilistisch perspectief

Abstract -- This article gives an overview of the stylistic research of Middle Dutch literature since the second half of the nineteenth century and discusses the work of scholars like J. te Winkel, J. van Mierlo, G.S. Overdiep and K. Heeroma. Middle Dutch stylistics of the nineteenth century was primarily practical: its main purpose was to enable a researcher to reconstruct or to date a text. At the beginning of the twentienth century, the research of Middle Dutch style was more concerned with the aesthetic quality of style. Middle Dutch stylistics has known different angles, methods and goals. Some researchers use a linguistic and quantitative analysis to describe style, others follow a more literary approach with intriguing but less exact results.

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