Irodalmi középkorkultusz a 19. század közepén: reprezentáció, imagológia, poétika
Literary Medievalism in Mid-19th-Century Hungarian Literature: Representation, Imagology, Poetics

Summary/Abstract: 19th-century Hungarian literary medievalism is underresearched, even though the cult of the medieval is a structural presence 19th-century Hungarian culture, literature, and social communication. Similarly to other European literatures and cultures, the recycled, reconstructed, and reframed medieval becomes a strong political, social, cultural, and poetic argument in referring to the national and ethnic past and present. The paper reconstructs this phenomenon as an entangled transnational history and positions mid-19th-century Hungarian medievalism in a European context, while also recovering the radical poetic questions and experiences of János Arany (1817-1882) when dealing with this medieval experience.

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