List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Geopoetical Coordinates of Hungarian Literature: An Introduction to Hungarian Literature as World Literature Péter Hajdu (Institute for Literary Studies, Hungary) and Zoltán Z. Varga (University of Pécs, Hungary)
Part 1. 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 2. Imagining and Representing the Nation
3. The Global Marketability of the Literature for Nation Building (Sándor Petofi and Mór Jókai) Péter Hajdu (Institute for Literary Studies, Hungary) and Róbert Milbacher (University of Pécs, 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 Twentieth Century Periodicals Jessie Labov (Institute for Literary Studies, Hungary), Szilvia Maróthy (Independant Researcher, Hungary), Róbert Péter (University of Szeged, Hungary), and Zoltán 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 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 Millenium 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 4. 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 5. 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 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)
Contributor Biographies
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