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Hungarian Cultural Studies
Hungarian Cultural Studies, 2012
The volume under consideration here offers an interesting addition to the relatively small but im... more The volume under consideration here offers an interesting addition to the relatively small but impressively varied output of the University of Ottawa Press, which largely focuses on humanities and social sciences in the main language areas. As scholars attempting to publish works about Czech and Hungarian cultural matters often discover, most established publishing houses shy away from volumes offering to attract supposedly limited attention, while, ironically, scholars and students interested in Central European matters often complain about the paucity of modern scholarly sources on the cultural and intellectual history of the region. By providing a series of thoroughly researched articles on some aspects of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy at the fin-de-siècle, Agatha Schwartz's carefully edited volume helps to fill a gap in Central European studies.
24th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, 2020
Hungarian Studies Yearbook, 2021
Családi Kör (1860–1880) was the leading Hungarian domestic magazine of the mid-19th period, which... more Családi Kör (1860–1880) was the leading Hungarian domestic magazine of the mid-19th period, which, under the editorship of the first Hungarian woman of letters Emília Kánya, played a major role in introducing the domestic readership to contemporary European literature and in discussing the struggle of women’s employment opportunities before a wider public. Critical studies have also suggested that it was edited and published under the influence of the German Gartenlaube (1853–1944), the journal credited with embedding the journal of domestic magazine in the broader regime of 19th century print culture. Based on a close reading of the two magazines’ coverage in its European cultural historical context, this chapter offers an account of the possible connections and affinities between the two periodicals, and argues that the Hungarian magazine was significantly more daring in its politics and more systematic in its pursuit of introducing the local audience to European literary trends a...
Porównania, 2020
This chapter focuses on the international reputation of the work of two Hungarian novelists the l... more This chapter focuses on the international reputation of the work of two Hungarian novelists the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: the reception of the novels of Magda Szabó and László Kraszahorkai in German, French and English literary cultures. Though different in novelistic approach, genre and aesthetics, they belong to a small group of Hungarian writers whose work found resonance with the international readership. The chapter argues that their international circulation, reception and popularity are much entwined with very tangible processes of mediation through networks of translators and other cultural agents active in the international economy of letters.
Hungarian Cultural Studies, 2015
As the above title indicates, because of the publication schedule of Hungarian Cultural Studies t... more As the above title indicates, because of the publication schedule of Hungarian Cultural Studies this bibliography straddles 2013-2014, covering the period since the publication in Fall of 2013 of last year’s bibliography in this journal. Each year’s bibliography is supplemented by earlier items that were only retrieved recently. Although this bibliography series can only concentrate on English-language items, occasional items of particular interest in other languages may be included. For a more extensive bibliography of Hungarian Studies from about 2000 to 2010, for which this is a continuing update, see Louise O. Vasvári, Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, and Carlo Salzani. “Bibliography for Work in Hungarian Studies as Comparative Central European Studies.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Library) (2011): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/hungarianstudiesbibliography.
Powerpoint presentation of the novel A wartime memoir by Alaine Polcz, a Hungarian World War 2 su... more Powerpoint presentation of the novel A wartime memoir by Alaine Polcz, a Hungarian World War 2 survivor and memoirist. Used as lecture and seminar notes for women’s writing courses at Glasgow University.
Hungarian Studies, 2005
This article offers a complement to previous readings of Kertész's Nobel-Pri... more This article offers a complement to previous readings of Kertész's Nobel-Prize winning novel Fateless and his other significant fiction The Failure. While previous critics of these key texts often read Kertész's representation of the Holocaust experience in the context of twentieth ...
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