Worlds of Hungarian Writing : National Literature As Intercultural Exchange.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translations -- Introduction. World Literature in Hungarian Literary Culture -- Chapter 1. "Wordsworth in Hungary": An Essay on Reception as Cultural Memory and Forgetting -- Chapter 2. Negotiating the Popular/National Voice: Impropriety in Two HungarianTranslations of Robert Burns -- Chapter 3. Translation, Modernization, and the Female Pen: Hungarian Women as Literary Mediatorsin the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 4. The Hungarian Verse Novel in a Cross-Cultural Perspective -- Chapter 5. Antal Szerb's The Queen's Necklace: A "'True Story'" of Cross-CulturalIntersections in Hungarian Literature -- Chapter 6. Mediation and Hybridity: Twentieth-Century HungarianÉmigré Literary Scholars -- Chapter 7. The New Left's Use and Abuse of György Lukács's Thought -- Chapter 8. Recontextualization, Localization, Hybridization: Intercultural Matrices in Hungarian Roma and African American Life Writings -- Chapter 9. The Cultural (Un)Turn in Hungarian Literary Scholarship in the 1990s: Strategies of Inclusion and Exclusion -- Chapter 10. Borderline Fiction: Eastern Europe and East-West Encounters in László Krasznahorkai's Works -- Chapter 11. Text, Image, Memory: Intermediality in the Work of Péter Nádas -- Chapter 12. Monuments and Bulldozers: Social Memory Landscapes in Péter Esterházy's Celestial Harmonies and Donald Barthelme's The Dead Father -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.

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.

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