Worlds of Hungarian writing : national literature as intercultural exchange

Worlds of Hungarian writing : national literature as intercultural exchange / edited by András Kiséry, Zsolt Komáromy, and Zsuzsanna Varga.

This book discusses modern Hungarian literary culture as a site of intercultural exchange, suggesting through a variety of case-studies that encounters with foreign literatures are integral to national literary tradition, and studying them renews critical perspectives on national literary history. I...

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Other Authors: Kiséry, András (Editor), Komáromy, Zsolt (Editor), Varga, Zsuzsanna (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Madison : Lanham, Maryland : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016]
Subjects:
Hungarian literature > History and criticism.
Literature and society > Hungary.
National characteristics, Hungarian.
Hungarian literature > Foreign countries.
Hungarians.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Hungarian Languages.
Hungarians
Hungarian literature
Hungarian literature > Foreign countries
Literature and society
National characteristics, Hungarian
Hungary
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Note on Translations; Introduction. World Literature in Hungarian Literary Culture; Chapter 1. "Wordsworth in Hungary": An Essay on Reception as Cultural Memory and Forgetting; Chapter 2. Negotiating the Popular/National Voice: Impropriety in Two HungarianTranslations of Robert Burns; Chapter 3. Translation, Modernization, and the Female Pen: Hungarian Women as Literary Mediatorsin the Nineteenth Century; Chapter 4. The Hungarian Verse Novel in a Cross-Cultural Perspective
  • Chapter 5. Antal Szerb's The Queen's Necklace: A "'True Story'" of Cross-Cultural Intersections in Hungarian Literature Chapter 6. Mediation and Hybridity: Twentieth-Century Hungarian Émigré Literary Scholars; Chapter 7. The New Left's Use and Abuse of György Lukács's Thought; Chapter 8. Recontextualization, Localization, Hybridization: Intercultural Matrices in Hungarian Roma and African American Life Writings; Chapter 9. The Cultural (Un)Turn in Hungarian Literary Scholarship in the 1990s: Strategies of Inclusion and Exclusion
  • Chapter 10. Borderline Fiction: Eastern Europe and East-West Encounters in László Krasznahorkai's Works Chapter 11. Text, Image, Memory: Intermediality in the Work of Péter Nádas; Chapter 12. Monuments and Bulldozers: Social Memory Landscapes in Péter Esterházy's Celestial Harmonies and Donald Barthelme's The Dead Father; Index; About the Editors and Contributors

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