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Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies
Comparative Cultural Studies
Steven T t sy de Zepetnek, Series Editor
The Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies publishes single-authored and thematic collected volumes of new scholarship. Manuscripts are invited for publication in the series in fields of the study of culture, literature, the arts, media studies, communication studies, the history of ideas, etc., and related disciplines of the humanities and social sciences to the series editor via email at clcweb@purdue.edu . Comparative cultural studies is a contextual approach in the study of culture in a global and intercultural context and work with a plurality of methods and approaches; the theoretical and methodological framework of comparative cultural studies is built on tenets borrowed from the disciplines of cultural studies and comparative literature and from a range of thought including literary and culture theory, (radical) constructivism, communication theories, and systems theories; in comparative cultural studies focus is on theory and method as well as application. For a detailed description of the aims and scope of the series including the style guide of the series link to http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/seriespurdueccs . Manuscripts submitted to the series are peer reviewed followed by the usual standards of editing, copy editing, marketing, and distribution. The series is affiliated with CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (ISSN 1481-4374), the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access quarterly published by Purdue University Press at http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb .
Volumes in the Purdue series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies
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Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies , Ed. Steven T t sy de Zepetnek and Louise O. Vasv ri
Hui Zou, A Jesuit Garden in Beijing and Early Modern Chinese Culture
Yi Zheng, From Burke and Wordsworth to the Modern Sublime in Chinese Literature
Agata Anna Lisiak, Urban Cultures in (Post)Colonial Central Europe
Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror , Ed. Sophia A. McClennen and Henry James Morello
Michael Goddard, Gombrowicz, Polish Modernism, and the Subversion of Form
Shakespeare in Hollywood, Asia, and Cyberspace , Ed. Alexander C.Y. Huang and Charles S. Ross
Gustav Shpet s Contribution to Philosophy and Cultural Theory , Ed. Galin Tihanov
Comparative Central European Holocaust Studies , Ed. Louise O. Vasv ri and Steven T t sy de Zepetnek
Marko Juvan, History and Poetics of Intertextuality
Thomas O. Beebee, Nation and Region in Modern American and European Fiction
Paolo Bartoloni, On the Cultures of Exile, Translation, and Writing
Justyna Sempruch, Fantasies of Gender and the Witch in Feminist Theory and Literature
Kimberly Chabot Davis, Postmodern Texts and Emotional Audiences
Philippe Codde, The Jewish American Novel
Deborah Streifford Reisinger, Crime and Media in Contemporary France
Imre Kert sz and Holocaust Literature , Ed. Louise O. Vasv ri and Steven T t sy de Zepetnek
Camilla Fojas, Cosmopolitanism in the Americas
Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje s Writing , Ed. Steven T t sy de Zepetnek
Jin Feng, The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction
Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America , Ed. Sophia A. McClennen and Earl E. Fitz
Sophia A. McClennen, The Dialectics of Exile
Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies , Ed. Steven T t sy de Zepetnek
Comparative Central European Culture , Ed. Steven T t sy de Zepetnek
Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies
Edited by Steven T t sy de Zepetnek and Louise O. Vasv ri

Purdue University Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies / ed. Steven T t sy de Zepetnek and Louise O. Vasv ri.
p. cm. -- (Comparative cultural studies)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-55753-593-1
1. Hungary--Civilization. 2. Hungary--Intellectual life. 3. Hungary--Social life and customs. 4. Europe, Central--Civilization. 5. Europe, Central--Intellectual life. 6. Europe, Central--Social life and customs. 7. Europe, Eastern--Civilization. 8. Europe, Eastern--Intellectual life. 9. Europe, Eastern--Social life and customs. 10. Comparative civilization. I. T t sy de Zepetnek, Steven, 1950- II. Vasv ri, Louise O. (Louise Olga), 1943-
DB920.5.C64 2011
943.905--dc22
2010044574
Cover image: A reflection of Fisherman s Bastion on the windows of a hotel building in Budapest.
Contents
Introduction to Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies
Steven T t sy de Zepetnek and Louise O. Vasv ri
Part One
History, Theory, and Methodology for Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies
Steven T t sy de Zepetnek and Louise O. Vasv ri
The Study of Hungarian Culture as Comparative Central European Cultural Studies
Andr s Kis ry
Literacy, Culture, and History in the Work of Thienemann and Hajnal
David Mandler
V mb ry, Victorian Culture, and Stoker s Dracula
Steven Jobbitt
Memory and Modernity in Fodor s Geographical Work on Hungary
Louise O. Vasv ri
The Fragmented (Cultural) Body in Polcz s Asszony a fronton (A Woman on the Front)
Part Two
Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies of Literature and Culture
Gy rgyi Horv th
Contemporary Hungarian Literary Criticism and the Memory of the Socialist Past
Lilla T ke
The Absurd as a Form of Realism in Hungarian Literature
Peter Sherwood
On the German and English Versions of M rai s A gyerty k csonkig gnek ( Die Glut and Embers )
Ilana Rosen
Exile, Homeland, and Milieu in the Oral Lore of Carpatho-Rusyn Jews
Part Three
Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies and the Other Arts
va Federmayer
Nation, Gender, and Race in the Ragtime Culture of Millennial Budapest
Ivan Sanders
Jewish (Over)tones in Viennese and Budapest Operetta
Catherine Portuges
Curtiz, Hungarian Cinema, and Hollywood
Debra Pfister
Lost Dreams and Sacred Visions in the Art of mos
Megan Brandow-Faller
Art Nouveau and Hungarian Cultural Nationalism
Part Four
Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies and Gender Studies
Erzs bet Bar t
Hungarian Political Posters, Clinton, and the (Im)possibility of Political Drag
Katalin Medvedev
The Cold War, Fashion, and Resistance in 1950s Hungary
Anna Borgos
S ndor/Sarolta Vay, a Gender Bender in Fin-de-Si cle Hungary
N ra Schleicher
Women Managers Communicating Gender in Hungary
Part Five
Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies of Contemporary Hungary
John Joseph Cash
Commemoration and Contestation of the 1956 Revolution in Hungary
Kata Zs fia Vincze
About the Jewish Renaissance in Post-1989 Hungary
Ryan Michael Kehoe
Aspects of Contemporary Hungarian Literature and Cinema
Erika S lyom
Linguistic Address Systems in Post-1989 Hungarian Urban Discourse
L szl K rti
Images of Roma in Post-1989 Hungarian Media
Lajos Cs szi and Mary Gluck
The Budapest Cow Parade and the Construction of Cultural Citizenship
Agata Anna Lisiak
Urbanities of Budapest and Prague as Communicated in New Municipal Media
Steven T t sy de Zepetnek
The Anti-Other in Post-1989 Austria and Hungary
Part Six
Bibliography for the Study of Hungarian Culture
Louise O. Vasv ri, Steven T t sy de Zepetnek, and Carlo Salzani
Selected Bibliography for Work in Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies
Index
Introduction to Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies
Steven T t sy de Zepetnek and Louise O. Vasv ri
The articles presented in this volume are intended as an addition to scholarship in comparative cultural studies and the study of Central and East European culture with special attention to Hungarian culture. The studies in the volume are from a wide array of fields in the humanities and social sciences including literary study, sociology, history, political science, architecture, fine arts, painting, oral literature, linguistics, music, new media, cinema, and television. With regard to the underlying theoretical framework and its application in various fields, it is important to point out that on the landscape of scholarship in Central and East Europe, cultural studies has acquired at best spotty interest, hence the editors objective to publish a collected volume by scholars working in the field. Contributors to the volume are mostly, although not all, of Hungarian background and working at universities in Hungary, Germany, Israel, and the US.
As to the theoretical and methodological perspective for the study of Hungarian culture as comparative Central European cultural studies, Steven T t sy de Zepetnek and Louise O. Vasv ri s article, The Study of Hungarian Culture as Comparative Central European Cultural Studies, serves as a point of departure. T t sy de Zepetnek and Vasv ri outline a theoretical and methodological approach for the study of Hungarian culture as based on tenets of comparative Central European cultural studies, a framework developed, in turn, from the framework of comparative cultural studies. They postulate that the various cultures of Central and East Europe are best studied in a comparative and contextual manner inst