„Unser wichtigstes Palladium ist die Sprache“ – Zur Frage von Nation, Identität und Sprache in einem multilingualen Umfeld am Beispiel des Grafen JOHANN MAILÁTH
“Our language is our greatest treasure”– nationality, identity and language in a multilingual community through the lens of Count JOHANN MAILÁTH’S works
Author(s): Orsolya Tamássy-LénártSubject(s): Hungarian Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: nation; nation building; transnational; Hungarus-identity; patriotism; Hungarian literature;
Summary/Abstract: The article examines the gradual development of a complex relationship between language, nation and identity in the Hungarian Reform Era. It presents the literary landscape of Pest-Buda in the first half of the 19th century; the concept of ‘Natio Hungarica‘ circulating in the Kingdom of Hungary at the time; and the fate of those authors who professed to be Hungarians, but did not wish to, or could not, use Hungarian as literary language. The work of Count JOHANN MAILÁTH (1786-1855) – a transnational mediator between Pest-Buda and Vienna, supporter of state patriotism as Hormayr understood it – serves as an example.
Journal: Convivium. Germanistisches Jahrbuch Polen
- Issue Year: 2021
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 23-39
- Page Count: 17
- Language: German