Az élesztőaffér. Vázlat kritika és hatalom viszonyáról
The Regeneration Affair. On the Relationship between Criticism and Power

Summary/Abstract: An important literary debate occurred in 2019, triggered by the publication of a book by prose writer János Háy (Kik vagytok ti? Kötelezõ magyar irodalom / Who are You? Compulsory Hungarian Literature), highlighting different approaches to literary history and to literary canons, but even more interestingly showing how professional debates taking place in literary magazines are distorted within the framework of social media and news websites. The conclusions of Tibor Bárány’s analysis are as follows: current Hungarian news media does not properly interact with literary magazines; online media tends to frame professional debates as personal and/or institutional ones; within the current Hungarian public space, lacking organic hierarchies of specialization, the expertise of literary critics has no legitimacy and is reinterpreted in terms of conflictual power structures.

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