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earch for models, the spotting of topoi and consideration of the genre the work
might fit. Research into the relation with reality is focussed on indicating elements of
time and place in the text and facts from the life of the author, and on the formulation
of the possible functions of a text in relation to the personal life of the author,
contemporaneous topics and social needs. In view of this approach the texts are dated
as precisely as possible, and an Interpretation of each text is given. The scheme re-
«ults in an analysis model in six parts which is described under the heading Textual
Commentary, Approach (5.1). The analysis is applied to a selection from the work of
the poet, in which representativeness was aimed at, and will be found in Chapter 5.
In Chapter 4, a separate investigation is made into the conditions of the author's life
and his outlook upon it, as parts of the reality which has no directly visible link with
the text itself.
The argument is based on the combination of literary and historical research. This
combination has not been used in GJ studies so far. The choice foi such an approach
was made independently of Spies 1987a, who presents a comparable scheme. The
frame of reference of the literary criticism is rhetoric. The historical research is tentative.
The choice for a text-by-text discussion has its origin in the notion that it is not
meaningful to make general statements about the reality content (or literary content)
of literature if they are not based on penetrating research into individual texts.
A number of flaws in the two extant editions of GJ's works (Epkema 1821, published
in 1822, and Brouwer 1936/1966) make a new publication desirable. In order to
meet the aims formulated above, a text edition has been added to this study, which
appears as Part I. Problems of transliteration and editing in facsimile form are discussed
in Chapter 2. A description of editions and manuscripts follows in Chapter 3.
Üiscussion of editions concentrates on the question of the history of their origin. A
contribution to accounting for the origin of a work can be made through knowledge
of the audience that read (or did not read) it and of the nature of the interest the work
aroused. This is assumed to have greater significance to the extent that readers lived
closer in time to GJ. Consequently, attention is also paid to these aspects of the reception
of GJ's work, particularly for the period up to 1822, when a new edition appeared.
The analysis of the subscription list to this edition constitutes a welcome addition
to the sparse data about readers from 1822 back to 1640, the year in which work of
GJ's hand was published for the first time.
It can be said in general that I have aimed at including into the investigation all Information
about GJ and his work which has come down to us over the course of the
centuries. This applies to secondary literature as much as to archive materials. Data
from secondary literature have been checked against their sources.
Textual tradition (3.1)
About 1658, GJ seems to have conceived the plan of collecting his Frisian oeuvre
in Friesche Rymlerye the way it appeared in 1668, two years after his death. The book
may never have been placed upon the market.
The expanded 1668 re-edition which Gabbema published in 1681 contained not
only new texts by GJ but also two introductions in the form of dedications, a grammar
of Frisian, a treatise on Frisian orthography, and a specimen of Old Frisian in
two versions. The relation of both the grammar and Old Frisian to GJ is not clear.
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