Amsterdam Academic Archive
Language Contact and Bilingualism
1st Edition
By Rene Appel, Pieter C. Muysken
October 01, 2025
What happens – sociologically, linguistically, educationally, politically – when more than one language is in regular use in a community? How do speakers handle these languages simultaneously, and what influence does this language contact have on the languages involved? Although most people in the ...
Reading Rembrandt: Beyond the Word-Image Opposition
1st Edition
By Mieke Bal
October 01, 2025
Reading Rembrandt: Beyond the Word-Image Opposition explores the potential for an interdisciplinary methodology between visual art and literature. In a series of close analyses of works by Rembrandt, works as we see them today, through all the ways of seeing and commenting that precede, and texts ...
The Apollonian Clockwork: On Stravinsky
1st Edition
By Louis Andriessen, Elmer Schönberger
March 15, 2006
‘I think my music deserves to be considered as a whole’, Igor Stravinsky remarked at the end of a long and restless career, and that is exactly what the authors of The Apollonian Clockwork do. In 1982, convinced that there is no essential difference between ‘early’ and ‘late’ Stravinsky, Louis ...