Irodalomtörténet-írás a 20. század elején: Szerb Antal és Viljo Tarkiainen
Literary Historiography in the Early 20th Century: Antal Szerb and Viljo Tarkiainen

Summary/Abstract: In my research I investigate the Finnish and the Hungarian literary field. My article focuses on the first part of the 20th century. In 1934 a new literary history was published both in Hungary and in Finland. Antal Szerb’s work, ’The History of Hungarian Literature’ is still popular, which can be illustrated by the fact that a critical edition was published in 2019. Viljo Tarkiainen, one of the most appreciated Finnish literary scholars, was also the single author of the ’History of Finnish Literature’. By a metadiscursive approach, my aim is to investigate how the above-mentioned works represent the national literary history. I believe that a comparative method, which can reveal the strategies that play a role in the construction of national literary histories in F inland and in Hungary, can add new perspectives not only to these two literary historians’ images, but also to the understanding of the contemporary meaning(s) of the term national.

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