Worlds of Hungarian Writing

András Kiséry teaches at The City College of New York.Zsolt Komáromy teaches at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.Zsuzsanna Varga teaches at the University of Glasgow.

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.

AcknowledgmentsNote on TranslationsNote on ContributorsIntroduction: World Literature in Hungarian Literary Culture by András Kiséry and Zsolt Komáromy:Chapter 1: Wordsworth in Hungary¿: An Essay on Reception as Cultural Memory andForgetting by Zsolt KomáromyChapter 2: Negotiating the Popular/National Voice: Impropriety in Two HungarianTranslations of Robert Burns by Veronika RuttkayChapter 3: Translation, Modernization and the Female Pen: Hungarian Women asLiterary Mediators in the Nineteenth Century by Zsuzsanna VargaChapter 4: The Hungarian Verse Novel in a Cross-Cultural Perspective by Júlia BácskaiAtkáriChapter 5: Antal Szerb¿s The Queen¿s Necklace: A `true story¿ of Cross-cultural Intersections in Hungarian Literature by Ágnes Vashegyi MacDonaldChapter 6: Mediation and Hybridity: Twentieth-Century Hungarian Émigré Literary Scholars by Sándor HitesChapter 7: The New Left¿s Use and Abuse of György Lukács¿s Thought by György TúryChapter 8: Recontextualization, Localization, Hybridization: Intercultural Matrices inHungarian Roma and African American Life Writings by Tamás DeményChapter 9: The Cultural (Un)Turn in Hungarian Literary Scholarship in the 1990s:Strategies of Inclusion and Exclusion by Györgyi HorváthChapter 10: Borderline Fiction: Eastern Europe and East¿West Encounters in LászlóKrasznahorkai¿s Works by Edit ZsadányiChapter 11: Text, Image, Memory: Intermediality in the Work of Péter Nádasby Lauren WalshChapter 12: Monuments and Bulldozers: Social Memory Landscapes in Péter Esterházy¿sCelestial Harmonies and Donald Barthelme¿s The Dead Father by Katalin OrbánIndexAbout the Editors and Contributors