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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808443703321

Titolo

Worlds of Hungarian writing : national literature as intercultural exchange / / editors, András Kiséry, Zsolt Komáromy, Zsuzsanna Varga

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md. : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-61147-841-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 272 pages)

Disciplina

894/.51109

Soggetti

Hungarian literature - History and criticism

Literature and society - Hungary

National characteristics, Hungarian

Hungarian literature - Foreign countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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. It contributes to current reconsiderations of methods of literary historiography, and will appeal to readers interested in Hungarian literature, and to scholars of reception study, cultural memory, comparative literary study, and of world literature.