Jaap Grave – författare

Im Jahre 1860 erschien Multatulis Max Havelaar. Der Roman, der in Amsterdam und der ehemaligen ostindischen Kolonie der Niederlande des 19. Jahrhunderts spielt, sorgte für viel Aufsehen. Die Qualität des Romans rechtfertigt eine vielfältige und fruchtbare Forschung jedoch nicht nur im sprachübergreifenden, sondern auch im interdisziplinären Sinne. Auf dem Prüfstand stehen narratologische, poetologische und intertextuelle Lesarten, zudem wird der Max Havelaar wissenschaftshistorischen, postkolonialen und ideologiekritischen Analysen unterzogen. Die Autoren dieses Bandes, internationale Literaturwissenschaftler, die sich im Dezember 2010 anlässlich einer Fachkonferenz an der Freien Universität Berlin versammelt haben, erweitern und aktualisieren mit ihren Beiträgen die nationale und internationale Multatuli-Forschung und betrachten den Roman in einer vollkommen neuen Perspektive.One hundred and fifty years ago, in 1860, Multatuli's Max Havelaar was published. Set in 19th century Amsterdam and in the then Dutch colony of the East Indies the novel caused a considerable stir among contemporary readers. The quality of the novel justifies multiple and fruitful research not only outside the language borders but also in an interdisciplinary way. That is the goal of this book: to do research on narratological, poetical and intertextual aspects of Max Havelaar, and moreover to make it the subject of postcolonial, ideological and historical analyses. In this way, during a conference at the Free University Berlin in December 2010 literary scholars not only widened and brought the Mul­tatuli research up to date, but also examined the novel from new perspectives.

From as early as classical antiquity there has been an interplay between literature and medicine. The first book of Homer''s Ilias recounts the plague that swept the camp of the Achaeans. While this instance concerns a full-length book, it is the aphorism that is of greater importance as a literary technique for the dissemination of medical knowledge, from the "Corpus Hippocraticum" of antiquity until the "Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis" (1715) by Herman Boerhaave. In addition, the subject of illness and its impact on mankind was explored by great numbers of poetic scholars and scholarly poets.This collection offers fourteen articles which all highlight the relation between disease and literature. It entails a first-ever overview of Dutch-language research in this field, whereby the literary and cultural functions of medical knowledge and the poetics of medical and literary writing are in the focus.