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Title
Utopia between East and West in Hungarian literature / Zsolt Czigányik.
ISBN
3031092260 electronic book
9783031092268 (electronic bk.)
3031092252
9783031092251
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (1 volume)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-031-09226-8 doi
Call Number
PH3102 .C95 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification
894/.51133
Summary
This book focuses on the most important utopian and dystopian literary texts in nineteenth and twentieth-century Hungarian literature, and therefore widens the scope of the traditionally Anglophone canon. Utopian studies is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary, and this research integrates literary hermeneutics with ideas and methods from political science and the history of ideas. In doing so, it argues that Hungarian utopianism was influenced by the regions (and Hungarian cultures) position of permanent liminality between Western and Eastern European patterns of power structures, social and political order. After a thorough methodological introduction, some early modern texts written in Hungary are discussed, while the detailed analyses focus on nineteenth-century texts, written by Bessenyei, Madach, and Jokai, whereas the twentieth century is represented by Karinthy, Babits and Szathmari. In the interpretations the results of contemporary scholarship is applied, particularly the works of Lyman Tower Sargent, Gregory Claeys and Fatima Vieira. Zsolt Cziganyik is Associate Professor at Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary. He has been a visiting professor at Central European University, and a scholar at the Gerda Henkel Foundation. His research focuses on the interaction of politics and literature in modern and contemporary prose, especially in utopian and dystopian literature.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
Palgrave studies in utopianism.
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Circulation of Utopian Ideals in Hungary
Chapter 3. The Moderate Optimism of the Enlightenment: Bessenyei in Totoposz
Chapter 4. Failed Utopias in Human History: The Tragedy of Man by Imre Madach
Chapter 5. Utopia Proper in Hungarian Literature: Eternal Peace and Future Technology in Mor Jokais The Novel of the Century to Come
Chapter 6. Gulliver in Hungary: Karinthys Faremido and Capillaria
Chapter 7. Dystopia in Interwar Hungary: Pilot Elza or the Perfect Society by Mihaly Babits
Chapter 8. Sandor Szathmaris Dystopias and the Positivistic Simplification of Humans
Chapter 9. Conclusion./.
