Hungarian urban culture in the 20th and the 21st centuries.

When consulting key works on urban studies, the absence of Central and Eastern European towns is striking. Cities such as Vienna, Budapest, Prague, and Trieste, where such notable figures as Freud, Ferenczi, Kafka, and Joyce lived and worked, are rarely studied in a translocal framework, as if Central and Eastern Europe were still a blind spot of European modernity. This volume expands the scope of literary urban studies by focusing on Budapest and Hungarian small towns, offering in-depth analyses of the intriguing link between literature, the arts, and material culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. The case studies situate Hungarian urban culture within the global flow of ideas as they explore the period of modernism, the mid-century, and the post-1989 era in a context that moves well beyond the borders of the country.

Contributors: Arpad Bak (University of Leeds), Eva Federmayer (Eoetvoes Lorand University), Magdolna Gucsa (Eoetvoes Lorand University / EHESS), Agnes Gyoerke (Karoli Gaspar University), Ferenc Hoercher (Eoetvoes Jozsef Research Centre), Tamas Juhasz (Karoli Gaspar University), Gyoergy Kalmar (University of Debrecen), Laszlo Muntean (Radboud University), Agnes Klara Papp (Karoli Gaspar University), Marta Pellerdi (Pazmany Peter Catholic University), Eszter Ureczky (University of Debrecen).

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About the Author
Agnes Gyoerke is associate professor at Karoli Gaspar University's Department of Literary and Cultural Studies in English and principal investigator of the Cosmopolitan Ethics and the Modern City research group. Tamas Juhasz is associate professor at Karoli Gaspar University where he teaches modern British and American literature, cultural theory and Central European film.

Reviews

Taken together, the chapters in this book provide a coherent overview of representations of the Hungarian city in literature, theater, and cinema. This book will act as an important future reference work for scholars working on the 20th and 21st century Hungarian city. And it reminds scholars unfamiliar with Hungarian urban culture of the vast range of urban phenomena that remain underrepresented in academic literature in English.Lieven Ameel, Tampere University

Book Information
ISBN 9789462703940
Author Agnes Gyoerke
Format Paperback
Page Count 330
Imprint Leuven University Press
Publisher Leuven University Press