All said before: Menno Wigman's ennui
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| Publication date |
2014
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| Journal |
The Low Countries
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| Volume | Issue number |
22
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| Pages (from-to) |
226-237
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Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH)
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| Abstract |
There have always been poets who deliberately resign themselves to the existence of tradition and renounce all claims to originality. Menno Wigman (1966) is one of them. This Dutch Baudelaire describes the decadent ennui of his generation and the ‘melancholy of copy centres’. With an anthology of five poems.
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| Document type |
Article
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| Language |
English
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