Oraties als barometer

While Dutch literary studies are in a critical situation according to many, this is less often heard with regard to Dutch linguistics. Against this background, the article analyses recent inaugural lectures of Dutch literary scholars (from the Netherlands and from Germany) with regard to types of knowledge-production that can be taken from these lectures. It turns out that the accumulation of specific disciplinary knowledge does not seem to be the dominant programme of literary studies of modern Dutch literature in the Netherlands.