Orvostudomány és/vagy irodalom.

Author(s): Zsuzsánna Dohi / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: III/2016

The century in which Ferenc Pápai Páriz published his Pax corporis (1690), the first medical book in Transylvania, is very interesting from the point of view of the sciences. In the 17th century takes place a major change in the system of the sciences. They split into different disciplines, different subcategories such as exact sciences, sciences of nature, philosophy, literature, theology etc., and their hierarchy changes as well. The change does not happen from one moment to the other, it is a much more complicated transition meant to be researched, as the forms, themes and old models of religious expression are still to be used even when it comes about scientific works, their publication and popularization. Pápai’s medical book represents a swift and valuable balance among medicine, theology and philosophy. Thus my questions are: How is this balance possible and what are its linguistic expressions in Pápai’s Pax corporis? Is there any theoretical background to this scientific-religious way of expression?

A Kriterion Kiadó (1970–1989) interjúkban.

Author(s): Katalin Ágnes Bartha / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: III/2016

The present study deals with the history of the Kriterion Publishing House between 1970–1989 as constructed through audio interviews made with several ex-members of the publishing house staff . The pre-planned interviews were made with the purpose of learning about the ways in which the publishing house supported the minority cultures so that to ensure their survival in the last two decades of the Romanian communist regime. In doing so, the study focuses on a significant phenomenon of the cultural life from the period by combining anthropological and micro-historical methods with discourse analytic approach. By examining the cultural components of the informants’ discursive accounts the study intends to provide a novel interpretative framework concerning the Kriterion, a framework which consists of identity-aspects involved in every-day working practices and of the limits set by the ruling power of the period.

Erdélyi János nyomában

Author(s): Katalin Keserü / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 10/2015

A Phantasma kreatívírás-műhelyek

Author(s): Ruxandra Cesereanu / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 11/2015

Hópehelynyugalom vagy emlékezés az első kreatív oskolára a Pilisben

Author(s): Róbert Vass / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 11/2015

Ladik, komp, nemzeti gumimatrac

Author(s): László Darvasi,Júlia Váradi / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 99/2015

A kultúrtranszfer professzionális közvetítői

Author(s): Ágnes Deák / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2015

Maria Rózsa: Wiener und Pester Blätter des Vormärz und ihre Rolle der Kulturvermittlung. Kontakte, Parallelen, Literaturvermittlung, Redakteure und Mitarbeiter. (Studien zur Literaturwissenschaft, 6.) Gabriele Schäfer Verlag, Herne, 2013. 278 olda

Reinterpretacija anegdotske familijarnosti u romanu Ljubomornici Sándora Máraija

Author(s): Tibor Gintli / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2016

The study explores the way Sándor Márai’s novel entitled Féltékenyek (The Jealous Ones) has modernized the anecdotal tradition of the 19th century Hungarian literature. In addition, it aims to point out the one-sidedness of the approach that considers anecdotal narration old-fashioned in the context of modern literature. The major assumption of the study is that Márai applies anecdotal familiarity as an expression of commonly accepted values of the bourgeois way of life. This concept of familiarity primarily differs from its 19th century version characterized by intimate informality in being more abstract, more intellectual and more formal.

A vágtató vonat

Author(s): Katalin Ágnes Bartha / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 09/2016

Színpad - Zene - Élet

Author(s): Katalin Fleisz / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 10/2016

The Connection between the Child Narrator and the Magical Realism in György Dragomán’s Novel THE BONFIRE

Author(s): Éva Noémi Lőrentz / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

The main issue of the novel The Bonfire (Original title: Máglya) by the Hungarian writer György Dragomán is the confrontation of the child narrator (a 13-year old girl) with the traumas of the twentieth century which marked her parents’ and grandparents’ life and are still influencing her life in the post-communist era. The first premise of the central argument is that the child’s special point of view determines the perception of history and forgiveness. The second premise is that this point of view can be analysed in the context of the magical realism conception developed by Tamás Bényei. According to this, magic realism is a mode of writing, so the appearance of magic is a rhetorical, not an ontological question. The magic provides a language, through which the elements of reality get meanings and can be integrated into a system. One of the main conclusions is that the magical realism manifested through a child’s perspective can be an efficient mode of representing not only the collective and individual traumas, but also the process of forgiving and healing them.

Szandra May a hóhullásban

Author(s): Zsuzsa Demeter / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3/2016

It can be said that the critical response to the poetic work of Annamária Kinde, a poet who lived in Oradea, publishing nine individual volumes of poetry in the past eighteen years, and died in January 2014, has not been overwhelming either in Hungary or Transylvania. Although some reviews of her works were published, most of these appeared in literary reviews with which she was in more regular contact (such are, for instance, the Látó of Marosvásárhely/Targu Mures, Helikon of Kolozsvár/Cluj, Irodalmi Jelen of Arad, or the review Várad, of which she was also an editor), and where she also published her works from time to time. Albeit rarely, her poetry has also been published in reviews from Hungary (Hitel, Holmi), but criticism of her work has almost exclusively been published in Hungarian literary forums of Transylvania. This perspective, tragical perhaps, reflecting on her entire lifework, has several points of reference. First, one must speak about the place of Annamária Kinde’s poetry in contemporary Hungarian literature (from Hungary and from Transylvania), because the previous criticism has always only focused on the evaluation of her individual volumes, and failed to delineate the poetic, historical or genre traditions along which her poetry can be grasped and interpreted.

Egy európai ívű 17. századi „karrierregény”

Author(s): Attila B. Kiss / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3-4/2008

Adam Franck is a key figure of the Hungarian-related historical events occurred at the turning decades of the 17–18th centuries. He had important role in publishing literary works gaining Europe-wide reputation and was one of the most committed envoy of the Transylvanian book printing in the contemporary capital of book industry, Amsterdam. Though not returning home he continued to keep his close contacts with his birthplace for all his life and out of the Transylvanian peregrini he made the most impressive career, with European horizon, in the countries of maritime powers. Through the sources passed down to us by him we can come to the conviction that the Dutch, Prussian and following the glorious revolution, English decision-makers, not without in consideration of their own interests, showed more and more understanding to the contemporary Transylvanian and Hungarian endeavours. Adamus Francus Transylvanus’ letters are data-full sources on the less known chapters of the 17th century’s Transylvanian history and the Rákóczi movement.

Holokausztirodalom Magyarországon. Módszertani megjegyzések egy magyar holokausztirodalom-történethez

Author(s): Tamás Kisantal / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 4/2016

The paper discusses the methodological challenges of the historical study of Hungarian Holocaust literature. It mainly examines the specific methodological questions that arise when we want to historically analyze a text corpus the interpretation of which is greatly determined by a major discourse, which only emerged relatively late. As, from the 1970s, certain preconceptions as well as aesthetic and ethical norms were crystallized around the Holocaust, the entirety of which we may call Holocaust discourse. In Hungary, all this happened later, and it mostly got linked to the reception of Imre Kertész in the study of Hungarian literary developments, thus the harsh interpretation and description of the Holocaust that appears in his works influenced the reading of previous works as well. In my paper, through a case study, the examination of the reception of works published immediately after 1945, I argue in favor of the necessity of contextual analysis. At the time, these works belonged to an independent genre category within the field of literature called “experience literature”. By describing the debates about the concept of experience literature as well as the ideological and aesthetic discussions I make an attempt to explore how the discourses surrounding the contemporary descriptions of sufferings in World War II worked.

Krúdy Gyula tudományáról dokumentumregénye, A tiszaeszlári Solymosi Eszter művészete kapcsán

Author(s): Péter Simoncsics / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2017

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.

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 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.

A növényi életforma mint vágynélküliség és kitettség Nemes Nagy Ágnes költészetében

Author(s): Attila Szabó K. / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 04/2025

The poems of Ágnes Nemes Nagy have already been examined from an ecocritical perspective, but my primary focus is the enhanced vegetal presence in her works. Here, plants do not resemble animals; instead, they reveal their radical strangeness, which is interwoven with our own lives. I reflect on two aspects of the vegetal life form: desirelessness, detectable from her early volumes, and the passivity of plants as vulnerability and transformability. These poems challenge our concept of life by presenting a life form not based on individual desire, thus opening new possibilities for understanding ourselves and our shared territories

Egy társadalomtudós, aki szépirodalmat olvas

Author(s): Zsolt Czigányik / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 04/2025

Tóth Miklós Bálint: Az ideológiától a nosztalgiáig. Barangolások Koestlerrel és Máraival. MCC Press, Budapest, 2023. Angolul: From Ideology to Nostalgia Excursions with Arthur Koestler and Sándor Márai. Lexington Books, 2025.