« Donnez à tous et donnez-moi une patrie à aimer ». Comment et pourquoi saint François devint le saint patron de l’expressionnisme littéraire en Flandre
In the years following WW1, Flemish literature, and above all humanitarian-expressionist poetry, was marked by a striking fascination with Saint Francis. Thus, Marnix Gijsen’s Lof-litanie van den H. Franciscus van Assisië (“Litany of Praise of St. Francis of Assisi”) received significant attentio...
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2025
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| Online Access: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | In the years following WW1, Flemish literature, and above all humanitarian-expressionist poetry, was marked by a striking fascination with Saint Francis. Thus, Marnix Gijsen’s Lof-litanie van den H. Franciscus van Assisië (“Litany of Praise of St. Francis of Assisi”) received significant attention; yet Paul van Ostaijen, Wies Moens, and Achilles Mussche, among others, also engaged with the Italian saint. How and why could Francis, in particular, come to be regarded in Flanders as “the expressionist saint par excellence” (P. Hadermann) ? We first examine to what extent the Flemish reception of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Das Stunden-Buch (1904) may have played a role in this development, before turning to Gijsen’s Lof-litanie in an effort to reconstruct the political significance of Francis for Flemish humanitarian expressionism.
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