Hungarian Literature as World Literature
Hungarian Literature as World Literature
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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'.
Table of Contents
Geopoetical Coordinates of Hungarian Literature: An Introduction to Hungarian Literature as World Literature
Péter Hajdu (Institute for Literary Studies, Hungary) and Zoltán Z. Varga's (University of Pécs, Hungary)
Part I. Early Hungarian Literatures in European Networks
1. Early Modern Hungarian World Literature
Sándor Bene (Institute for Literary Studies, Hungary)
2. Neo-Latin 'Bestsellers' from Sixteenth-Century Hungary
Farkas Gábor Kiss (University Eötvös Loránd, Hungary)
Part II. Imagining and Representing the Nation
3. The Global Marketability of the Literature for Nation Building (Sándor Petofi and Mór Jókai)
Róbert Milbacher (University of Pécs, Hungary) and Péter Hajdu (Institute for Literary Studies, Hungary)
4. Traumatized by Translation: On the Unappreciated Services of Sir John Bowring and Karl-Maria Kertbeny
Sándor 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. Szabó (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)
6. Looking for the World in Hungarian Literature: Foreign Authors in Early 20th century Periodicals (and beyond)
Jessie Labov (Institute for Literary Studies, Hungary), Szilvia Maróthy (Independant Researcher, Hungary) and Róbert Péter (University of Szeged, Hungary)
Part III. Geopoetical Coordinates
7. Spatial Orientations and Regionalism: The Geocultural Immersions of Hungarian Literature in the Early 20th Century
László Bengi (University Eötvös Loránd, Hungary)
8. A Magyar in the Capital of Modernity: Endre Ady and the Symbolic Geography of the Modernity
Zoltán Z. Varga (Institute for Literary Studies/University of Pécs, 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 Millenia
Dávid Szolláth (Institute for Literary Studies, Hungary)
11. Minority Literature versus Central European Cultural Networks: The Kalligram Phenomenon
Zoltán Csehy (Comenius University, Slovakia)
12. The Changing Role of Central Europeanism in the Reception of Péter Nádas, Péter Esterházy and László Krasznahorkai
Orsolya Rákai (Institute for Literary Studies, Hungary)
Part IV. Political Literature, Literary Politics
13. Questions of Moral Responsibility in Hungarian Holocaust Literature
Tamás Kisantal (University of Pécs, Hungary)
14. The Power of Oppositions: György Lukács on Hungarian Literature
Sarolta Deczki (Institute for Literary Studies, Hungary) and Gábor Bezeczky (Institute for Literary Studies, Hungary)
15. Riders of the Nostalgia Wave: Hungarian Literature in Search of a Relatable Past during State Socialism
Tamás Scheibner (University Eötvös Loránd, Hungary)
Part V. On the World Stage
16. Hungarian Dramatic Literature in the Global Theatre and Film Industry during the Interwar Period
Magdolna Jákfalvi (University of Theatre and Film Arts, Hungary)
17. An Unexpected Success Story: Sándor Márai in the World Literature
András Kányádi (Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, France) and János Mekis D. (University of Pécs, 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
András Kappanyos (Institute for Literary Studies/University of Miskolc, Hungary)
20. In Between Languages: Lyric Poetry in Hungary since the 1970s
Zoltán Kulcsár-Szabó (University Eötvös Loránd, Hungary)
21. The Worlds of Hungarian Literature: Translationscapes and World Systems
Péter Király (Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen, Germany) and András Kiséry (The City College of New York, USA)
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | Jul 09 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 304 |
| ISBN | 9781501393129 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 9 bw figures |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Series | Literatures as World Literature |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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