Vol. 30 (2020)

The 30th volume of the oldest Netherlandic scholarly journal in Poland, Neerlandica Wratislaviensia, is the result of a collaboration between the Department of Dutch Philology at the University of Wrocław and Comenius University in Bratislava. The volume, edited by Jan Urbaniak (KFN), Marketa Štefkova and Benjamin Bossaert (Bratislava) contains 12 original scholarly articles by scholars from Poland and abroad. Some of the publications were presented at the "Colloquium Neerlandicum", a conference organized by the association "Comenius" at Comenius University in Bratislava in 2019.

The authors wanted in this anniversary volume to show the diversity of Dutch studies. Therefore, the collected texts are devoted to a wide range of topics. The reader will find both a literary picture of our part of Europe created by the Dutch, fascinating and multifaceted research on past eras, whose authors show the Netherlands through the prism of poetry, song or emblem, and linguistic reflections on translation theory and language practice in everyday communication. Neerlandica Wratislaviensia also include articles on contemporary aesthetics and the history of World War II, seen from the perspective of Hungarian-Dutch relations. Traditionally, the volume concludes with review articles that give the reader an idea of the current market for scholarly publications about the Dutch culture in the broad context.