Doctoral Degrees (Afrikaans and Dutch)

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    'n Vergelykende ondersoek na die toekenning van debuutpryse vir Afrikaanse en Nederlandstalige poësie, 1990 - 2009
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12) Bonthuys, Marni; Foster, P. H.; T'Sjoen, Y.; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Afrikaans and Dutch.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis a comparative perspective is provided on the position of debut prizes for poetry in the Afrikaans and Dutch/Flemish literary fields between 1990 and 2009. Academic researchers tend to avoid the subject of literary prizes as well as the wider research terrain of literary evaluation. This is surprising, since literary evaluation is often a crucial activity within the study of literature and literary prizes are becoming more and more important in the literary field. Thus, the literary award as canonization mechanism is explored with particular focus on the debut prize for poetry that functions as an indicator of the canonization potential of new voices within a literary field. After a theoretical overview is provided of the selected debut prizes (and of a few other important prizes within the particular field), two chapters are presented about the selected Afrikaans and Dutch case studies. At the end of each of these chapters certain tendencies or patterns with regard to debut awards for poetry between 1990 and 2009 in Afrikaans and Dutch/Flemish are identified. In conclusion these tendencies in the different literary fields are compared. The methodological approach of this study is qualitative. Four debuts in Afrikaans and three debuts in Dutch are selected as case studies. These debuts were all awarded with more than one debut prize. The Afrikaans cases are: H.J. Pieterse for Alruin (1989), Ilse van Staden for Watervlerk (2003), Danie Marais for In die buitenste ruimte (2006) and Loftus Marais for Staan in die algemeen nader aan vensters (2008). Erik Menkveld for De karpersimulator (1997), Hagar Peeters for Koffers zeelucht (2003) and Ester Naomi Perquin for Servetten halfstok (2007) are the Dutch cases. The Afrikaans debut prizes identified are the Eugène Marais Prize, the Ingrid Jonker Prize, and the UJ Debut Prize; and in Dutch/Flemish the C. Buddingh’-prijs voor nieuwe Nederlandse poëzie; the Debuutprijs Het Liegend Konijn; the Vlaamse Debuutprijs/Herman de Coninck Debuutprijs; the J.C. Bloem-poëzieprijs; the Jo Peters Poëzieprijs; and the Lucy B. en C.W. van der Hoogt-prijs. In the two chapters about the selected cases, reception studies of reviews as well as jury reports (of the particular debuts) are provided. Here the research of Olf Praamstra (1984) and J.A.A. Mooij (1973, 1979) on the arguments and criteria used in reviews is applied. The research of Katinka Dijkstra (1989) and Susanne Janssen (1994) on canonization is also used. Short descriptions of the profiles and public claims made by these lauded poets are discussed with regard to the field theory of Pierre Bourdieu (1993, 1994); as well as the work of Jérôme Meizoz (2010) about posturing and the research of Kees van Rees and Gillis Dorleijn (2005, 2006) on the role of poetics. The work of these researchers builds on Bourdieu's field theory. In addition to this institutional approach, a textual analysis of selected poems from the prizewinning works is also provided. Some of the identified patterns and tendencies are mentioned in these analyses.