Het poëtisch accent. Drie literaire genres in zeventiende-eeuwse Nederlandse pamfletten

'The poetic accent. Three literary genres in seventeenth-century Dutch pamphlets' focuses on the way the conviction works, by studying pamphlets containing sonnets, songs and echo-poetry. I distinguish between structural and affective functions of poetry. Within the composition of a pamphlet, poetry was often given an exordial or perorational function. Poetry before the main text was well suited to portray the author in a good way, to deliver the message of the pamphlet as a kind of device and to help the reader with his interpretation. A poem could also function perorational as a summary of t... Mehr ...