A hím veréb és a pillangó (Az akadémikus és az erotikus irodalom harca a XIX. század utolsó harmadában)
The male sparrow and the butterfly (The struggle between academic and erotic literature in the last third of the 19th century)

Summary/Abstract: The study scrutinises the situation of the Hungarian literary towards the end of the 19th century in which the dominating and very prudish academic school leaded by Pál Gyulay forced the young writers to descend into the lower levels of literature: here they could express such erotic contents which were severely forbidden in the high literature. Tünde Császtvay examines and shows in selected passages the main devices of it, the old motives and metaphors such as the butterfly or bee pollinating the flowers, which became saturated increasingly with more and more explicit erotic content.

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