Hungarian Perspectives On The Western Canon

Author : László Bengi,Gábor Mezei,Ernő Kulcsár Szabó
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443892568

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Hungarian Perspectives on the Western Canon by László Bengi,Gábor Mezei,Ernő Kulcsár Szabó Pdf

In this collection, Hungarian literature is read together with canonical works of the Western literary tradition. The book studies the distinction between “major” and “minor” literatures, showing that such parallel readings may highlight previously unknown components of the literary tradition. The book does not hold traditional comparative methods, based on verifiable mediations or transactions between national philologies and national literary narratives, to be the exclusive standard of interpretation; readings can concentrate on common surfaces and textual events instead. This is what is meant by ‘post-comparative’ perspectives, a term to indicate that the conditions of a comparative reading never precede the reading itself. On this basis, the present volume points at several possibilities of how a common ground between texts can be created, especially because the chapters within it perform parallel readings in highly different ways.

Author : Zara Martirosova Torlone,Dana LaCourse Munteanu,Dorota Dutsch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118832684

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A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe by Zara Martirosova Torlone,Dana LaCourse Munteanu,Dorota Dutsch Pdf

A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe is the first comprehensive English?]language study of the reception of classical antiquity in Eastern and Central Europe. This groundbreaking work offers detailed case studies of thirteen countries that are fully contextualized historically, locally, and regionally. The first English-language collection of research and scholarship on Greco-Roman heritage in Eastern and Central Europe Written and edited by an international group of seasoned and up-and-coming scholars with vast subject-matter experience and expertise Essays from leading scholars in the field provide broad insight into the reception of the classical world within specific cultural and geographical areas Discusses the reception of many aspects of Greco-Roman heritage, such as prose/philosophy, poetry, material culture Offers broad and significant insights into the complicated engagement many countries of Eastern and Central Europe have had and continue to have with Greco-Roman antiquity

Author : Tom Geue,Elena Giusti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108843041

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Unspoken Rome by Tom Geue,Elena Giusti Pdf

Showcases innovative approaches to Latin literature by reading textual absence as a generative force for literary interpretation and reception. Includes chapters by a wide range of scholars, covering some of the main authors of the Latin literary tradition, often in dialogue with modern literature and philosophy.

Author : Zoltán Kulcsár-Szabó,Tamás Lénárt,Attila Simon,Roland Végső
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030337384

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Life After Literature by Zoltán Kulcsár-Szabó,Tamás Lénárt,Attila Simon,Roland Végső Pdf

This book offers innovative investigations of the concept of life in art and in theory. It features essays that explore biopoetics and look at how insights from the natural sciences shape research within the humanities. Since literature, works of art, and other cultural products decisively shape our ideas of what it means to be human, the contributors to this volume examine the question of what literature, literary and cultural criticism, and philosophy contribute to the distinctions (or non-distinctions) between human, animal, and vegetal existence. Coverage combines different methodological aspects and addresses a wide field of comparative literary studies. The essays consider the question of language (as a distinctive feature of human existence) in a number of different contexts, which range from Aristotle’s works, through several historical layers of the philosophical discourse on the origins of speech, to modern anthropology, and 20th century continental philosophy. In addition, the volume includes concrete case studies to the current post-humanism debate and provides literary, art historian, and philosophical perspectives on animal studies. The historical multiplicity of the various cultural representations of biological existence (be that human, animal, vegetal, or mixed) might serve as a productive foundation for discussing the nature and forms of literature’s critical contributions to our understanding of these fundamental categories. This volume opens up this subject to students and scholars of literature, art, philosophy, ethics, and cultural studies, and to anyone with a theoretical interest in the questions of life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Europe, Eastern
ISBN : MINN:31951P00605331P

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Transition by Anonim Pdf

Author : André de Quadros
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780429656316

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Focus: Choral Music in Global Perspective by André de Quadros Pdf

Focus: Choral Music in Global Perspective introduces the little-known traditions and repertoires of the world’s choral diversity, from prison choirs in Thailand and gay and lesbian choruses of the Western world to community choruses in the Middle East and youth choirs in the United States. The book weaves together the stories of diverse individuals and organizations, examining their music and pedagogical practices while presenting the author’s research on how choral cultures around the world interact with societies and transform the lives of their members. Through an engaging series of portraits that pushes beyond the scope of extant texts and studies, the author explores the dynamic realm of world choral activity and repertoire. These personal portraits of musical communities are enriched by sample repertoire lists, performance details, and research findings that reposition a once Western phenomenon as a global concept. Focus: Choral Music in Global Perspective is an accessible, engaging, and provocative study of one of the world’s most ubiquitous and socially significant forms of music-making.

Author : Sorin Antohi,Bal zs Trencs‚nyi,P‚ter Apor
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789637326851

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Narratives Unbound by Sorin Antohi,Bal zs Trencs‚nyi,P‚ter Apor Pdf

"This volume is the first work to cover post-Communist developments in historical studies in six Eastern European countries (Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, and Bulgaria) from a comparative and critical perspective, written by scholars from the region itself. It is a building block for scholars of the history of European and global historical studies, and a useful pedagogical tool for classes on the history of historical studies. Each individual chapter is in itself a guide to further research through a wealth of detailed notes and references."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Enikő Csukovits
Publisher : Viella Libreria Editrice
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14T17:35:00+02:00
Category : History
ISBN : 9788833134321

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Hungary and the Hungarians by Enikő Csukovits Pdf

During the Middle Ages the majority of people in Western Europe never met any Hungarians. They didn’t even hear about them, as news about Hungary only reached Western Europe in times of extraordinary historical events– such as the adoption of Christianity at the turn of the 11th century, or the devastating Tatar invasion in 1241-1242. Obtaining information about the Hungarians from books was also difficult, as medieval Europe, even as late as in the 15th-16th centuries, lacked libraries that would have offered greater numbers of works on Hungary or on Hungarian topics. On top of it all, works that contained the most detailed and accurate information remained unknown, in their own period; posterity only found them in rare manuscript copies discovered much later. Yet once collected, we find that these sources, originating from distant parts of the continent and written for different purposes, contain information about Hungary and the Hungarians that most often reaffirm one another. This work examines these sources and sets out to answer four major questions: What did people in medieval Western Europe know, think, and believe about the Hungarians and Hungary? To what degree was this knowledge constant or fluid over the centuries that made up the medieval era, and were changes in knowledge followed by any changes in appreciation? Where was the country located in the hierarchy of European countries on the basis of the knowledge, suppositions, and beliefs relating to it? What were the most important elements in this image of the Hungarians and of Hungary, and which of them became the most enduring stereotypes?

Author : Enik? Csukovits
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 883313010X

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Hungary and the Hungarians. Western Europe's View in the Middle Ages by Enik? Csukovits Pdf

Author : Gábor Gyáni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000441024

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The Creation of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy by Gábor Gyáni Pdf

Recent collection of essays discusses the historical event and the multifarious consequences of the 1867 Compromise (Ausgleich, Settlement), conducted between the Habsburg monarch, Francis Joseph and the Hungarian political ruling class. The whole story has usually been narrated from a plainly Cisleithanian viewpoint. The present volume, the product of Hungarian historians, gives an insight into both the domestic and the international historical discourses about the Dual Monarchy. It also reveals the process of how the 1867 Compromise was conducted, and touches upon several of the key issues brought about by establishing a constitutional dual state in place of the absolutist Habsburg Monarchy. The emphasis is laid not on describing and explaining the path leading to the final and "inevitable" break-up of the Dual Monarchy, but on what actually held it together for half a century. The local outcomes of self-maintaining mechanisms were no less obvious in the Hungarian part of the Dual Monarchy, despite the many manifestations of an overt adversity toward it. The Creation of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy will appeal to historians dealing especially with 19th-century European history, and is also essential reading for university students.

Author : Armin Vambery
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1075365228

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The Story of Hungary by Armin Vambery Pdf

Written in the 19th Century, the author reveals to us his idea behind this book: I wanted to write this book from the perspective of a native Hungarian so as for the reader to relate closer to the history and its people. I undertook a task which was out of the range of my previous literary undertakings, which had for the most part been devoted to the geography, history, and philology of Central Asia. LessI undertook a task which was out of the range of my previous literary undertakings, which had for the most part been devoted to the geography, history, and philology of Central Asia. The principal reason which induced me to enter upon what is for me a new literary field, was my desire to make American and English readers acquainted with the record of a country that after visiting it several times has never stopped to amaze and inspire me, and to present the various phases of the history of Hungary in the light best suited to attract the attention of the citizens of England and of the Great Republic, to whose opinion Hungarians are by no means indifferent. I wanted to write this book from the perspective of a native Hungarian so as for the reader to relate closer to the history and its people.

Author : Michael Hollington
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781623560355

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The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe by Michael Hollington Pdf

The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe offers a full historical survey of Dickens's reception in all the major European countries and many of the smaller ones, filling a major gap in Dickens scholarship, which has by and large neglected Dickens's fortunes in Europe, and his impact on major European authors and movements. Essays by leading international critics and translators give full attention to cultural changes and fashions, such as the decline of Dickens's fortunes at the end of the nineteenth century in the period of Naturalism and Aestheticism, and the subsequent upswing in the period of Modernism, in part as a consequence of the rise of film in the era of Chaplin and Eisenstein. It will also offer accounts of Dickens's reception in periods of political upheaval and revolution such as during the communist era in Eastern Europe or under fascism in Germany and Italy in particular.

Author : Oana Andreica
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031111464

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Music as Cultural Heritage and Novelty by Oana Andreica Pdf

This book provides a multifaceted view on the relation between the old and the new in music, between tradition and innovation. This is a much-debated issue, generating various ideas and theories, which rarely come to unanimous conclusions. Therefore, the book offers diverse perspectives on topics such as national identities, narrative strategies, the question of musical performance and musical meaning. Alongside themes of general interest, such as classical repertoire, the music of well-established composers and musical topics, the chapters of the book also touch on specific, but equally interesting subjects, like Brazilian traditions, Serbian and Romanian composers and the lullaby. While the book is mostly addressed to researchers, it can also be recommended to students in musicology, ethnomusicology, musical performance, and musical semiotics.

Author : Ádám Havas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000590630

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The Genesis and Structure of the Hungarian Jazz Diaspora by Ádám Havas Pdf

In Hungary, jazz was at the forefront of heated debates sparked by the racialised tensions between national music traditions and newly emerging forms of popular culture that challenged the prevailing status quo within the cultural hierarchies of different historical eras. Drawing on an extensive, four-year field research project, including ethnographic observations and 29 in-depth interviews, this book is the first to explore the hidden diasporic narrative(s) of Hungarian jazz through the system of historically formed distinctions linked to the social practices of assimilated Jews and Romani musicians. The chapters illustrate how different concepts of authenticity and conflicting definitions of jazz as the "sound of Western modernity" have resulted in a unique hierarchical setting. The book's account of the fundamental opposition between US-centric mainstream jazz (bebop) and Bartók-inspired free jazz camps not only reveals the extent to which traditionalism and modernism were linked to class- and race-based cultural distinctions, but offers critical insights about the social logic of Hungary’s geocultural positioning in the ‘twilight zone’ between East and West to use the words of Maria Todorova. Following a historical overview that incorporates comparisons with other Central European jazz cultures, the book offers a rigorous analysis of how the transition from playing ‘caféhouse music’ to bebop became a significant element in the status claims of Hungary’s ‘significant others’, i.e. Romani musicians. By combining the innovative application of Pierre Bourdieu’s cultural sociology with popular music studies and postcolonial scholarship, this work offers a forceful demonstration of the manifold connections of this particular jazz scene to global networks of cultural production, which also continue to shape it.

Author : István Sándor
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789403540153

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Property and Trust Law in Hungary by István Sándor Pdf

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this practical analysis of the law of property in Hungary deals with the issues related to rights and interests in all kinds of property and assets – immovable, movable, and personal property; how property rights are acquired; fiduciary mechanisms; and security considerations. Lawyers who handle transnational disputes and other matters concerning property will appreciate the explanation of specific terminology, application, and procedure. An introduction outlining the essential legal, cultural, and historical considerations affecting property is followed by a discussion of the various types of property. Further analysis describes how and to what extent legal subjects can have or obtain rights and interests in each type. The coverage includes tangible and intangible property, varying degrees of interest, and the various ways in which property is transferred, including the ramifications of appropriation, expropriation, and insolvency. Facts are presented in such a way that readers who are unfamiliar with specific terms and concepts in varying contexts will fully grasp their meaning and significance. The book includes ample references to doctrine and cases, as well as to relevant international treaties and conventions. Its succinct yet scholarly nature, as well as the practical quality of the information it provides, make this book a valuable time-saving tool for any practitioner faced with a property-related matter. Lawyers representing parties with interests in Hungary will welcome this very useful guide, and academics and researchers will appreciate its value in the study of comparative property law.