Levelek hagyománykoncepciója
The Conception about Tradition of the Literary Correspondence

Summary/Abstract: From the literary correspondence we can obtain knowledge about the literary tradition and the applicability of the studied period (1760–1848.) My study aims at Kazinczy’s correspondence which essentially determined the period’s scale of values; it tries to examine the texts related to the traditions of literary history. In the first place it studies the 18th-19th century reception of the inspiring poets, István Gyöngyösi and Miklós Zrínyi. The main points of my research are directed towards the tradition-concepts of the epistles: these letters are inferred as a sphere of communication of the literary standard language. The main questions of my study are: in what kind of textual corpus could the discourse about Gyöngyösi and Zrínyi be adjusted to; how can certain poets’ concepts of poetry determine the canonizing process; in what way can we apply the tradition of literary history to the examined period, and along what kind of strategies of reading is demarcated Gyöngyösi’s and Zrínyi’s place in Hungarian literary history.

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