Title: Comparative Hungarian cultural studies /
Authors: Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven, 1950-; Vasvári, Louise O. 1943-
Publisher: Purdue University Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Comparative civilization; Hungary Civilization; Hungary Intellectual life; Hungary Social life and customs; Europe, Central Civilization.; Europe, Central Intellectual life.; Europe, Central Social life and customs.; Europe, Eastern Civilization.; Europe, Eastern Intellectual life.; Europe, Eastern Social life and customs.; Ungern intellektuellt liv.; Ungern kultur- och samhällsliv.; Ungern vardagsliv och traditioner.; Östeuropa intellektuellt liv.; Östeuropa kultur- och samhällsliv.; Östeuropa vardagsliv och traditioner.; Centraleuropa intellektuellt liv.; Centraleuropa kultur- och samhällsliv.; Centraleuropa vardagsliv och traditioner.
Contents: The study of Hungarian culture as comparative central European cultural studies / Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Louise O. Vasvári -- Literacy, culture, and history in the work of Thienemann and Hajnal / András Kiséry -- Vámbéry, Victorian culture, and Stoker's Dracula / David Mandler -- Memory and modernity in Fodor's geographical work on Hungary / Steven Jobbitt -- The fragmented (cultural) body in Polcz's Asszony a fronton (A Woman on the Front) / Louise O. Vasvári -- Contemporary Hungarian literary criticism and the memory of the socialist past / Györgyi Horváth -- The absurd as a form of realism in Hungarian literature / Lilla Tőke -- On the German and English versions of Márai's A gyertyák csonkig égnek (Die Glut and Embers) / Peter Sherwood -- Exile, homeland, and milieu in the oral lore of Carpatho-Rusyn Jews / Ilana Rosen -- Nation, gender, and race in the ragtime culture of millennial Budapest / Éva Federmayer --^