Memory Space and Space Mythization – Space Perception of the Hungarian Literature in Vojvodina in the 1990s

Author(s): Éva Hózsa,Erzsébet Csányi,Hargita Horváth Futó / Language(s): English Issue: 15/2016

Among the key issues of Hungarian literature in Vojvodina during the Yugoslav wars is the discourse of space, more specifically, several acute problems of space poetics. The authors who decided to stay in their homeland embed into their texts their attitudes to the local space, local colours and the aspects of mythization and demythization. Migrant authors, on the other hand, often refer to their memory spaces. In this period, Ottó Tolnai’s local texts emerge, as well as István Németh’s mythicized spaces, Nándor Gion’s or István Szathmári’s memory spaces and Erzsébet Juhász’s historical approach to the borderland area. The turn of the millennium provided an opportunity for the reappraisal of space discourses and an examination of the culture of translation.

1790 körüli szász röpiratok

Author(s): Annamária Biró / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1-2/2008

In the paper we tried to find the answer for how the Saxon responded for the injuria of the Josephine and the 1790-91 diet’s regulations. The analysis of the solely printed texts was mainly lingual: which are the instruments of the enemy formation and self-definition, as well as the elements of argumentation for proving the righteousness of the privileges. The always situational self-definition offers the Saxon different strategies which they parlay as good as they can.

Fordítói nézőpontok a finn Kalevala magyar átültetéseiben

Author(s): P. Ildikó Varga / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1-2/2008

The first Hungarian translation of Kalevala was the achievement of Ferdinánd Barna in 1871. This was followed by the translations of Béla Vikár (1909), Kálmán Nagy (1972), István Rácz (1976) and Imre Szente (1987). The study is dealing with the comparative analysis of the last three Hungarian Kalevala translations. The first part contains a review on the Hungarian literature treating the problems of translation, while the second compares the mentioned translations on the basis of three selected sections.

A monarchia-irodalom sztereotípiáinak továbbélése es gatárai Balázs Attila, Gion Nándor es Majoros Sándor novelláiban

Author(s): Gábor Crnkovity / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2016

The following study is one of the chapters of the doctoral thesis entitled Continuing writing the stereotypes of the Monarchy-literature and interculturalismin the contemporary Hungarian short story literature in Vojvodina. The study seeks the answer to the question of how the stereotypes of the Monarchy-literature are written and survive in the contemporary Hungarian short stories in Vojvodina. In the short stories various motives can be found that act as a stereotype. As such is the homeland, military, army, language and the railroad. The railroad, the army and the homeland appear in the short stories of all the three authors.The historical, retrospective narration is frequently extended by tale elements. It is necessary to treat the next concepts coherent: tale, fairy-tale, history, storytelling, narration.I consider important to examine together the sites and stories of the migrant authors’ short stories full of nostalgia. The micro stories I have examined represent a mosaic of the history. The study is in search of these contexts and also compares them.

A beteg test Árva Bethlen Kata Önéletírásában

Author(s): Tamara Morvai Nagybali / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2016

The aim of the paper is the examination of the appearance of the sick body in Kata Árva Bethlen’s Önéletírás[Autobiography]. The introductory part of the work outlines the differences between the early modern and the modern body image. It examines the presence of epidemics and different illnesses in the autobiography, as well as the metaphorical linguistic representations of the illness. The paper goes into detail about the effects, alongside which the body is formulated; herein it analyses the effect of widows’ prayers, Protestant asceticism and of pietism.

A XIX. századi verses regények továbbélése a kortárs Magyar irodalomban

Author(s): Dóra Kecsenovics‒Szabó / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2016

The present study undertakes the comparison of the genre features of the 20thcentury verse novels and that of the contemporaries, with especial regard to JánosTérey’s work entitled Paulus. Among these features belong the alteration of the story teller method, generic combination of the poem and the novel, the presence of irony in the texts, as well as the revival and transcription of the antecedent literary works. In case of the contemporary verse novels and in case of Paulus as well, the reader has to face an exceptionally wide-ranging text with the constant change of the scenes and the register. Although by its generic formulation, the text carries the generic features of the 20th century verse novel, it is more eclectic, and requires a different reading strategy.

Luxus v uhorskej literatúre do konca 13. storočia

Author(s): Marek Oravec / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2017

Main focus of this paper is set to the analysis of the Hungarian literature in the Árpadian era in order to find the information about the unusual and luxurious goods that the nobility used in their everyday life or as the means of representation. Connected to this is the lifestyle, marked by the social prestige or noblesness. This mentality is based on the ownership of these various luxurious commodities, either movable or real, or it could be vice-versa, meaning that the ownership of these luxurious goods affected and formed the mentality and the social status of the aristocracy. People could value the luxurious goods either for their high price and artwork or either for their symbolic value. And the symbolic value of the object was given to it by the literature. The goods in the literary works, such as hagiographic legends, chronicles or deeds, were influenced by the real-world goods, as well as the real-world goods were influenced by the symbolic value that literature gave them. That is the power of the literature and its author: it can affect its reader or listener in the way he desire, and the whole society with it. This paper will try to provide some new view on the narrative sources, when identifying the luxurious objects and their role in medieval culture and society.

SZONETTVARIÁCIÓK PETRI GYÖRGY VALAMI ISMERETLEN CÍMŰ KÖTETÉBEN

Author(s): Kornélia Horváth / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2017

This paper examines the sonnets of György Petri’s lyrical volume entitled Valami ismeretlen [Something Unknown] published shortly after the change of the political system in Hungary in 1990. It seems quite interesting that this verse-form (sonnet) has a minimal representation in the first two volumes of this Hungarian poet, while it becomes more frequent – three sonnets per volume in general – in his later books of verse. The book Something Unknown seems to be unique from this aspect, since it contains nine sonnets in a very purposeful and structured form regarding the composition of the entire volume. Therefore the methodology and perspective of our paper focuses on a metrical and rhythmical analysis, which attempts to approach and interpret its results not on a descriptive, structuralist basis but rather from the aspect of semantic and poetic effects.

VAS ISTVÁN KÖLTÉSZETÉNEK VILÁGFELFOGÁSA

Author(s): László Sturm / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2017

His contemporaries took notice of the fact that István Vas’s fourth volume of poems Kettős örvény [A Double Whirl] published after a long silence (due to historical reasons) in 1947 was an achievement comparable only to the works of the greatest poets, and that it had introduced a qualitative change into the opus of the writer. He dared to be fractured, introduced a creative new touch to the metrical forms he had earlier often used rather scholastically, and first and foremost he had become aware of issues characteristic of the era in the events of his own life. The twilight of history, the memory of his dead wife and complications of new love affairs created a setting for poetic elaboration of faith and doubt, faithfulness and change, and several other eternal questions. The study provides an insight into the pathways of thoughts and poetic characteristics of this volume of poetry.

Pap Károly útja

Author(s): Béla Vihar / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2017

O prašini sveta

Author(s): János Bányai / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 270-271/1981

kaže Oto Tolnai: »blizu je već dan / kada ćemo ponovo morati da razrežemo svoje jezike / da se dogovorimo oko nefeih praktičnih stvari / jer nešto nije u redu«. Ućutali smo, tišina je oko nas, muk — to je dijagnoza pesnika Tolnaija o stanju, položaju našeg pesništva (književnostii); zbog toga bi trebalo ponovo da razrežemo svoje jezike, zbog toga nije u redu ono što je zaista bilo u redu onda kada nije bilo ćutanja i tišine, kada je pesma odjekivala jer se sukobila s otporom onih koji su je obasipali drvljem i kamenjem, trebalo je probiti ovaj zid, usred velikih halabuka; bilo je, dakafeo, sve u redu onda kada — barem je tako izgledallo — ništa na svetu nije bilo u redu. U vreme prvih pesama, prvih eseja, Tolnai jasno vidi: treba ponovo »da razrežemo svoje jezike«.

Rewolucja 1956 w literaturze węgierskiej. Na marginesie literackiego kanonu

Author(s): Kinga Piotrowiak-Junkiert / Language(s): Polish Issue: 29/2016

The article is an attempt at an outline of the situation in Hungarian literature confronted with the revolution of 1956. The events of the Hungarian October are some of the more frequent themes in revisionist literature. Selected examples of literary works show the most important features of that literature, writing strategies, patterns of artistic message. From the wide selection of the literature, a poem, fragments of a diary, a novel, and an authobiographical essay by Sándor Márai, György Moldova, István Örkény and Imre Kertész were selected.

Hankonszky János: Pilinszky János evngéliumi esztétikája teremtő képzelet és metafizika

Author(s): Anna Farmati / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 05/2012

Balassi-versek az unitárius énekhagyományban

Author(s): Andrea Hevesi / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2-3/2017

Some of the religious poems by Balassi Bálint (Valentine Balassi) (1554– 1594) appear in the Unitarian hymnals in the first three decades of the 17th century. These are the earliest known variants. This article focuses on Balassi’s poems found in the Unitarian hymnal from around 1616 and manuscripts from the early 17th century.The early variants of Ó, én kegyelmes Istenem… (Oh, my gracious God…),Pusztában zsidókat… (Jews in the wilderness…), Bocsásd meg, Úristen… (Forgive me God…), and Adj már csendességet… (Give me peace…). are compared to the later variants included in the printed edition of the Istenes énekek* (Divine Songs (1669-1677?)). The sources from the first three decades of the 17th century contain such variants turned into collective, sung poems which are not featured in any of the subsequent editions of the Istenes énekek. Therefore, the early variants cannot be regarded as a source of those in the Istenes énekek.The article proposes that the majority of the rare sources are directly or indirectly connected to the Chancellery operating in Kolozsvár in the first third of the 17th century, and to the Unitarians of Kolozsvár. Therefore, it may have been Petki János (John Petki) (1572–1612), Transylvania’s cultured Chancellor from 1607–1608 who acquired several texts by Balassi and perhaps also some by Rimay János (John Rimay) (1573–1631)?).

Minták, modellek, eredetiség. Egy magyar darab esete a Finn Nemzeti Színházzal

Author(s): Ildikó Varga P. / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: IV/2017

The study analyses the circumstances of translating into Finnish and presentation of Sándor Hunyady`s Th e Black Stemmed Cherry. The subject is mainly justified by a debate over the (translator`s) authorship, in which the arguments presented regarding the issue of authorship provide an answer that is exceeding the translation, as well as source and target language competences. The parties in dispute are Béla Vikár and Jalo Kalima. The Finnish translator Jalo Kalima got into this system as an outsider. He came into contact with the play only through his family relations and experiences as translator. He also used in the debate his experiences as translator, arguing in favor of a native target language speaker as translator. On the contrary, Vikár formulates ideologized arguments that are not related to the text and target language competence: his own central role and authority in the two systems.

Egy elfeledett élet – kicsoda Adorjánné Weress Margit?

Author(s): Emese Rózsa Széman / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: IV/2017

Although Margit Adorjánné Weress is an almost unknown personality of the interwar period, her figure is essential for any thorough research concerning the period’s cultural history. This statement is increasingly accurate in my case, given that my research focuses on the history of poetry recitation in Transylvania in the 1920s and ‘30s, and, in addition to being a Hungarian-German teacher, Margit Weress was also a well-known and respected performer of poetry. In my study I present her life, touching upon, in addition to her private and professional career, two very important persons in her life, namely Lajos Áprily and Sándor Reményik, who involved her even more in the intellectual life of her time and with whom she maintained an intimate friendship throughout her life. Their previously unprocessed correspondence and the memoirs of Margit Weress, unpublished as yet, have (or may have) a high cultural historical significance, which not only render her figure and the mentioned sources essential for my own research, but, in my view, are unavoidable for other researches dealing with this time period as well.

A tavaszi hadjárat eseményei Jókai Mór műveiben

Author(s): József Hajagos / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2017

A menlevél mint szimbólum Jókai Mór regényeiben

Author(s): Bálint Heltai / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2017

ARANY JÁNOS ÉS A RETORIKA

Author(s): Anna Adamikné Jászó / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2017

The paper consists of two parts. In the first part, it was absolutely necessary to write about János Arany’s comprehension of rhetoric, emphasizing that it was similar to the views of theories written by writers in the second half of the 20th century, e. g. Chaïm Perelmanin. It is important to concisely characterize authentic rhetoric because several misunderstandings exist about it in public opnion. The second part gives a brief description of Arany’s conception of humour, and quotes instances of his humour of argumentation, namely, of rhetorical example, the enthymeme, and also gives examples for topical logic: definition, genus-species relation and whole-part relation, causeeffect relation, and dilemma. Tropes and schemes in the writer’s view are connected to topical logic. Finally, attention is drawn to the problem of the way Arany is taught in high school: his poetry is simplified and one-sided, his humorous poems are left out, therefore, changes are required.

Ladik-tükör

Author(s): János Vilmos Samu / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3/2017

Élhetek az arcodon? (Can I live on Your Face?) an autobiographical work by Katalin Ladik published ten years ago is about to get a sequel titled Vadhús. The paper examines the implicit philosophy of the Subject from the perspective of conventional autobiographies in the former volumes in the context of the strong irregularities of the book. The text enhanced by multimedial elements has a structure of a complex question which conditions its reception, and its chiazmic character confronts the reader with the experience of the own Other, the internal foreign self and extimity.