Chapter 6 Beyond the Great Divide: New explorations in editing the 'Complete Works' of Dutch Novelist Willem Frederik Hermans

Though the publication of the 'Complete works' of Dutch novelist Willem Frederik Hermans (1992-1995) is a challenge in itself, nowadays the aim of the mere publishing of 24 printed volumes is far from enough. Operating within an academic field of literary theory and criticism, in which a detailed and conscious use of scholarly edited texts is all but obvious, much more effort should be spent to communicate the merits of textual scholarship. With Hermans, an author known for the ongoing revisions of his texts, academic awareness on the 'textual process' and 'textual fluidity'' can be raised, by... Mehr ...