Orvostudomány és/vagy irodalom.

Author(s): Zsuzsánna Dohi / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: III/2016

The century in which Ferenc Pápai Páriz published his Pax corporis (1690), the first medical book in Transylvania, is very interesting from the point of view of the sciences. In the 17th century takes place a major change in the system of the sciences. They split into different disciplines, different subcategories such as exact sciences, sciences of nature, philosophy, literature, theology etc., and their hierarchy changes as well. The change does not happen from one moment to the other, it is a much more complicated transition meant to be researched, as the forms, themes and old models of religious expression are still to be used even when it comes about scientific works, their publication and popularization. Pápai’s medical book represents a swift and valuable balance among medicine, theology and philosophy. Thus my questions are: How is this balance possible and what are its linguistic expressions in Pápai’s Pax corporis? Is there any theoretical background to this scientific-religious way of expression?

A Kriterion Kiadó (1970–1989) interjúkban.

Author(s): Katalin Ágnes Bartha / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: III/2016

The present study deals with the history of the Kriterion Publishing House between 1970–1989 as constructed through audio interviews made with several ex-members of the publishing house staff . The pre-planned interviews were made with the purpose of learning about the ways in which the publishing house supported the minority cultures so that to ensure their survival in the last two decades of the Romanian communist regime. In doing so, the study focuses on a significant phenomenon of the cultural life from the period by combining anthropological and micro-historical methods with discourse analytic approach. By examining the cultural components of the informants’ discursive accounts the study intends to provide a novel interpretative framework concerning the Kriterion, a framework which consists of identity-aspects involved in every-day working practices and of the limits set by the ruling power of the period.

Erdélyi János nyomában

Author(s): Katalin Keserü / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 10/2015

A Phantasma kreatívírás-műhelyek

Author(s): Ruxandra Cesereanu / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 11/2015

Hópehelynyugalom vagy emlékezés az első kreatív oskolára a Pilisben

Author(s): Róbert Vass / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 11/2015

Ladik, komp, nemzeti gumimatrac

Author(s): László Darvasi,Júlia Váradi / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 99/2015

A kultúrtranszfer professzionális közvetítői

Author(s): Ágnes Deák / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2015

Maria Rózsa: Wiener und Pester Blätter des Vormärz und ihre Rolle der Kulturvermittlung. Kontakte, Parallelen, Literaturvermittlung, Redakteure und Mitarbeiter. (Studien zur Literaturwissenschaft, 6.) Gabriele Schäfer Verlag, Herne, 2013. 278 olda

Reinterpretacija anegdotske familijarnosti u romanu Ljubomornici Sándora Máraija

Author(s): Tibor Gintli / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2016

The study explores the way Sándor Márai’s novel entitled Féltékenyek (The Jealous Ones) has modernized the anecdotal tradition of the 19th century Hungarian literature. In addition, it aims to point out the one-sidedness of the approach that considers anecdotal narration old-fashioned in the context of modern literature. The major assumption of the study is that Márai applies anecdotal familiarity as an expression of commonly accepted values of the bourgeois way of life. This concept of familiarity primarily differs from its 19th century version characterized by intimate informality in being more abstract, more intellectual and more formal.

A vágtató vonat

Author(s): Katalin Ágnes Bartha / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 09/2016

Színpad - Zene - Élet

Author(s): Katalin Fleisz / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 10/2016

The Connection between the Child Narrator and the Magical Realism in György Dragomán’s Novel THE BONFIRE

Author(s): Éva Noémi Lőrentz / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

The main issue of the novel The Bonfire (Original title: Máglya) by the Hungarian writer György Dragomán is the confrontation of the child narrator (a 13-year old girl) with the traumas of the twentieth century which marked her parents’ and grandparents’ life and are still influencing her life in the post-communist era. The first premise of the central argument is that the child’s special point of view determines the perception of history and forgiveness. The second premise is that this point of view can be analysed in the context of the magical realism conception developed by Tamás Bényei. According to this, magic realism is a mode of writing, so the appearance of magic is a rhetorical, not an ontological question. The magic provides a language, through which the elements of reality get meanings and can be integrated into a system. One of the main conclusions is that the magical realism manifested through a child’s perspective can be an efficient mode of representing not only the collective and individual traumas, but also the process of forgiving and healing them.

Szandra May a hóhullásban

Author(s): Zsuzsa Demeter / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3/2016

It can be said that the critical response to the poetic work of Annamária Kinde, a poet who lived in Oradea, publishing nine individual volumes of poetry in the past eighteen years, and died in January 2014, has not been overwhelming either in Hungary or Transylvania. Although some reviews of her works were published, most of these appeared in literary reviews with which she was in more regular contact (such are, for instance, the Látó of Marosvásárhely/Targu Mures, Helikon of Kolozsvár/Cluj, Irodalmi Jelen of Arad, or the review Várad, of which she was also an editor), and where she also published her works from time to time. Albeit rarely, her poetry has also been published in reviews from Hungary (Hitel, Holmi), but criticism of her work has almost exclusively been published in Hungarian literary forums of Transylvania. This perspective, tragical perhaps, reflecting on her entire lifework, has several points of reference. First, one must speak about the place of Annamária Kinde’s poetry in contemporary Hungarian literature (from Hungary and from Transylvania), because the previous criticism has always only focused on the evaluation of her individual volumes, and failed to delineate the poetic, historical or genre traditions along which her poetry can be grasped and interpreted.

Egy európai ívű 17. századi „karrierregény”

Author(s): Attila B. Kiss / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3-4/2008

Adam Franck is a key figure of the Hungarian-related historical events occurred at the turning decades of the 17–18th centuries. He had important role in publishing literary works gaining Europe-wide reputation and was one of the most committed envoy of the Transylvanian book printing in the contemporary capital of book industry, Amsterdam. Though not returning home he continued to keep his close contacts with his birthplace for all his life and out of the Transylvanian peregrini he made the most impressive career, with European horizon, in the countries of maritime powers. Through the sources passed down to us by him we can come to the conviction that the Dutch, Prussian and following the glorious revolution, English decision-makers, not without in consideration of their own interests, showed more and more understanding to the contemporary Transylvanian and Hungarian endeavours. Adamus Francus Transylvanus’ letters are data-full sources on the less known chapters of the 17th century’s Transylvanian history and the Rákóczi movement.

Holokausztirodalom Magyarországon. Módszertani megjegyzések egy magyar holokausztirodalom-történethez

Author(s): Tamás Kisantal / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 4/2016

The paper discusses the methodological challenges of the historical study of Hungarian Holocaust literature. It mainly examines the specific methodological questions that arise when we want to historically analyze a text corpus the interpretation of which is greatly determined by a major discourse, which only emerged relatively late. As, from the 1970s, certain preconceptions as well as aesthetic and ethical norms were crystallized around the Holocaust, the entirety of which we may call Holocaust discourse. In Hungary, all this happened later, and it mostly got linked to the reception of Imre Kertész in the study of Hungarian literary developments, thus the harsh interpretation and description of the Holocaust that appears in his works influenced the reading of previous works as well. In my paper, through a case study, the examination of the reception of works published immediately after 1945, I argue in favor of the necessity of contextual analysis. At the time, these works belonged to an independent genre category within the field of literature called “experience literature”. By describing the debates about the concept of experience literature as well as the ideological and aesthetic discussions I make an attempt to explore how the discourses surrounding the contemporary descriptions of sufferings in World War II worked.

Krúdy Gyula tudományáról dokumentumregénye, A tiszaeszlári Solymosi Eszter művészete kapcsán

Author(s): Péter Simoncsics / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2017

Az 1848–1849-es forradalom és szabadságharc emlékezete női szerzők naplóiban és emlékirataiban

Author(s): Annamária Biró / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: XI/2024

The 1848-49 revolution appears as a pivotal moment in almost every memoir, serving as a significant turning point that completely reshapes the authors’ previous lives and daily routines. The reconstruction of events is always influenced by the authors’ current situation: the political environment, their social status when writing their texts. In my study, I undertake the analysis of memoirs written by female authors. For these women who sought to perpetuate the memories, the revolution and War of Independence also meant a change in the normative system of their lives, requiring them to rethink their own positions and life opportunities in the new circumstances. By dissecting the elements of narrative identity, we can observe how the components of their new roles evolve in the light of historical events, and also recognize the impact of learned behaviors and interpretative patterns, whether encouraging action or limiting it. The study examines the linguistic manifestations of these phenomena.

Wass Ottilia grófnő kéziratos versfüzete. Előmunkálat

Author(s): Imola Jakab / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: XI/2024

The Wass family is a famous aristocratic family of Transylvania. Among its members, Countess Ottilia Wass (1829-1917), with her special education, stood out with her social sensitivity and her sustained activities of cultural patronage. Studying the archives of the Wass family, the author of the article identified a notebook with verses entitled Poésies 1869- 1870, which contains some of her own lyrical creations alongside poems and aphorisms of other authors mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries. In addition to the 15 texts in Hungarian, the notebook contains 5 French, 14 English and 13 German texts, including Hungarian, German and English poems by female authors. The textual examination of the manuscript sheds light on the countess’s linguistic abilities, her preferences as a reader, as well as (to a lesser extent) her network of literary relationships.

„Mi az, hogy Palics?” Transzkulturális közelítések Tolnai Ottó Szeméremékszerek című regénytrilógiájához

Author(s): István Ladányi / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: XI/2024

The paper deals with the transcultural features of the trilogy of novels, Szeméremékszerek, by the Hungarian author Ottó Tolnai from Serbia. In the narrative, with its complex focalization through alter-egos, the local space (the resort town of Palić on the Serbian- Hungarian border) is itself presented as a space of coexistence and encounters and interactions of cultures, with both traditional and new forms of these, while at the same time this complex cultural space intersects with global cultural spaces in many ways, which continue into each other without precisely demarcated boundaries.

Külső és belső monológok, banális tragédiák. Narrátori pozíciók kortárs magyar regényekben

Author(s): Zsuzsa Tapodi / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: XI/2024

The study examines the value structure of three recently published Hungarian novels, Andrea Tompa’s Haza [Home] (2020), János Háy’s Mamikám [Mommy] (2021) and Péter Nádas’ Rémtörténetek [Horror stories] (2022), through the analysis of the narrative positions observed in them. The novels present the fate of ordinary people from the period of communism and the post-regime era. The latter two works emphasise the hopeless situation of those experiencing various degrees of vulnerability through internal focalisation, with Háy’s whole text being a communicated speech, while Tompa’s work is a third-person stream-of-consciousness narrative with a mixed, simultaneous and interposed focus, providing a broader panorama.

Fegyelmező és elnyomó hatalmi struktúrák anatómiája és hatásai Sofi Oksanen két regényében

Author(s): Krisztina Miklós / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: XI/2024

Sofi Oksanen’s two novels, Stalin’s Cows and The Purge, can be read in relation to each other from different perspectives. The first aspect is that they are two pieces of an existing tetralogy, which reveals the authorial intention that placed the texts side by side. In addition, a generational network is revealed in both texts, which intersects at several points: the relationship between body and power, identity construction, women’s roles, trauma.