Hungarian Literature as World Literature by Hajdu, Pe?ter; Varga, Zolta?n Z.;

Short description:

Covering a wide range of approaches to Hungarian literature across historical periods, themes and genres, this volume offers a strong emphasis on diverse perspectives and the transnational circulation of literatures in the world.

Long description:

Synthesizes contemporary research on world literature while introducing Hungarian literature's 'worldliness' to an international readership.

Hungarian Literature as World Literature provides readers less familiar with the Hungarian national context with new access to local variations on an already familiar comparative or historical problem. Rather than reducing the project of situating Hungarian literature as world literature to a search for causal, mechanical and hierarchical types of influence exerted by world literature on Hungarian literature, or investigating the latter's sporadic occurrences on the 'great stage' of literature in the major languages, the volume offers a more complex and nuanced way to reveal the multimodal relationships they form.

Authors in this volume consider the Hungarian national literature as an open geo-poetical and geopolitical space, which is at once wider and smaller than the monolingual, nation-state oriented, territorially closed frame of observation that characterizes most national literary historiography. In this intersectional space, the geopolitical reading discloses local transformations of broader poetical or ideological movements and their feedback into the world system, the geopolitical contexts behind poetic forms and narrative constructions. Hungarian Literature as World Literature draws a vital link between the collecting and curating practices that preserve and disseminate Hungarian literature and a theoretical conversation that is being held in English, on an international level, about the future of the concept of 'world literature'.

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List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Geopoetical Coordinates of Hungarian Literature: An Introduction to Hungarian Literature as World Literature P???ter Hajdu (Institute for Literary Studies, Hungary) and Zolt???n Z. Varga (University of P???cs, Hungary)
Part 1. Early Hungarian Literatures in European Networks
1. Early Modern Hungarian World Literature S???ndor Bene (Institute for Literary Studies, Hungary)
2. Neo-Latin ""Bestsellers"" from Sixteenth-Century Hungary Farkas G???bor Kiss (University E???tv???s Lor???nd, Hungary)
Part 2. Imagining and Representing the Nation
3. The Global Marketability of the Literature for Nation Building (S???ndor Petofi and M???r J???kai) P???ter Hajdu (Institute for Literary Studies, Hungary) and R???bert Milbacher (University of P???cs, Hungary)
4. Traumatized by Translation: On the Unappreciated Services of Sir John Bowring and Karl-Maria Kertbeny S???ndor Hites (Institute for Literary Studies, Hungary)
5. The First Journal of Comparative Literature as Little Periodical: Slow Print, Radicalism, and Pioneering Modernism in the Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum Levente T. Szab??? (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)
6. Looking for the World in Hungarian Literature: Foreign Authors in Early Twentieth Century Periodicals Jessie Labov (Institute for Literary Studies, Hungary), Szilvia Mar???thy (Independant Researcher, Hungary), R???bert P???ter (University of Szeged, Hungary), and Zolt???n Kocsis (University of Szeged, Hungary)
Part 3. Geopoetical Coordinates
7. Spatial Orientations and Literary Regionalism: The Geocultural Immersions of Hungarian Literature in the Early Twentieth Century L???szl??? Bengi (University E???tv???s Lor???nd, Hungary)
8. A Magyar in the Capital of Modernity: Endre Ady and the Symbolic Geography of the Modernity Zolt???n Z. Varga (Institute for Literary Studies/University of P???cs, Hungary)
9. Discourses on Central Europe in Hungary Before and After 1945 Magdolna Balogh (Institute for Literary Studies, Hungary)
10. ""Once There Was a Central Europe"": Region and Fragmentation in Hungarian Fiction at the Turn of the Millenium D???vid Szoll???th (Institute for Literary Studies, Hungary)
11. Minority Literature Versus Central European Cultural Networks: The Kalligram Phenomenon Zolt???n Csehy (Comenius University, Slovakia)
12. The Changing Role of Central Europeanism in the Reception of P???ter N???das, P???ter Esterh???zy, and L???szl??? Krasznahorkai Orsolya R???kai (Institute for Literary Studies, Hungary)
Part 4. Political Literature, Literary Politics
13. Questions of Moral Responsibility in Hungarian Holocaust Literature Tam???s Kisantal (University of P???cs, Hungary)
14. The Power of Oppositions: Gy???rgy Luk???cs on Hungarian Literature Sarolta Deczki (Institute for Literary Studies, Hungary) and G???bor Bezeczky (Institute for Literary Studies, Hungary)
15. A Pre-History of Post-Socialist Nostalgia: Hungarian lLiterature in Search of a Relatable Past During Sate Socialism Tam???s Scheibner (University E???tv???s Lor???nd, Hungary)
Part 5. On the World Stage
16. Hungarian Dramatic Literature in the Global Theater and Film Industry During the Interwar Period Magdolna J???kfalvi (University of Theatre and Film Arts, Hungary)
17. An Unexpected Success Story: S???ndor M???rai in World Literature Andr???s K???ny???di (Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, France) and J???nos Mekis D. (University of P???cs, Hungary)
18. Hungarian Literature on Stage and Screen: Translation, Adaptation, Recalibration Jozefina Komporaly (University of the Arts London, UK)
19. Translatability and Untranslatability in Representative Anthologies of Modern Hungarian Poetry Andr???s Kappanyos (Institute for Literary Studies/University of Miskolc, Hungary)
20. In Between Languages: Hungarian Lyric Poetry Since the 1970s Zolt???n Kulcs???r-Szab??? (University E???tv???s Lor???nd, Hungary)
21. The Worlds of Hungarian Literature: Translationscapes and World Systems P???ter Kir???ly (Gesellschaft f???r wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH G???ttingen, Germany) and Andr???s Kis???ry (The City College of New York, USA)

Contributor Biographies
Index