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Utopia between East and West in Hungarian literature

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Utopia between East and West in Hungarian literature/ by Zsolt Cziganyik.
Author:	Cziganyik, Zsolt.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2022.,
Description:	ix, 252 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Hungarian fiction - History and criticism. - 19th century -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09226-8
ISBN:	9783031092268

Utopia between East and West in Hungarian literature
Cziganyik, Zsolt.

Utopia between East and West in Hungarian literature[electronic resource] /by Zsolt Cziganyik. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2022. - ix, 252 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in utopianism,2946-448X. - 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 Madách -- Chapter 5. Utopia Proper in Hungarian Literature: Eternal Peace and Future Technology in Mór Jókai's The Novel of the Century to Come -- Chapter 6. Gulliver in Hungary: Karinthy's Faremido and Capillaria -- Chapter 7. Dystopia in Interwar Hungary: Pilot Elza or the Perfect Society by Mihály Babits -- Chapter 8. Sándor Szathmári's Dystopias and the Positivistic Simplification of Humans -- Chapter 9. Conclusion./.

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 region's (and Hungarian culture's) 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, Madách, and Jókai, whereas the twentieth century is represented by Karinthy, Babits and Szathmári. In the interpretations the results of contemporary scholarship is applied, particularly the works of Lyman Tower Sargent, Gregory Claeys and Fátima Vieira. Zsolt Czigányik is Associate Professor at Eötvös Loránd 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.

ISBN: 9783031092268

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-09226-8doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1408101
Hungarian fiction
--History and criticism.--19th century

LC Class. No.: PH3102 / .C95 2022

Dewey Class. No.: 894.51133

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