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Title Worlds of Hungarian writing : national literature as intercultural exchange / edited by András Kiséry, Zsolt Komáromy, and Zsuzsanna Varga
Published Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 272 pages)
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 20, 2016)
Subject 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
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Kiséry, András, editor
Komáromy, Zsolt, editor
Varga, Zsuzsanna, editor
LC no. 2016011837
ISBN 9781611478419
1611478413