Urban Culture and the Modern City

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Urban Culture and the Modern City

Hungarian Case Studies

Gyoerke, Agnes; Juhasz, Tamas

Leuven University Press

01/2024

330

Mole

Inglês

9789462703940

15 a 20 dias

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Acknowledgements

Introduction. The Modern City in Hungarian Culture: Translocal Interventions
Agnes Gyoerke and Tamas Juhasz

PART I THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY: LITERATURE, PAINTING AND THE CITY

Chapter 1. 'You'll Never Walk Alone': Ferenc Molnar's Budapest in Liliom and The Guardsman
Marta Pellerdi

Chapter 2. City in the Land: Nationalism, Technology and Celebrity Culture in Gyula Krudy's Primadonna
Tamas Juhasz

Chapter 3. Small-town Poetics: The Provincial Small Town as the Counterpoint of Metropolis in Dezso Kosztolanyi's Skylark
Agnes Klara Papp

Chapter 4. 'Meteques' and the Central Powers of 'Montparnasse': Emil Szittya and the Ecole de Paris
Magdolna Gucsa

PART II PERSPECTIVES ON THE MID-CENTURY: PUBLIC ART AND THE NOVEL

Chapter 5. Place, Space, Gender and Narrative Agency in Margit Kaffka's Colours and Years (1911, 1912) and Magda Szabo's The Fawn (1959)
Eva Federmayer

Chapter 6. Told and Untold Histories of Oppression: Hungarian Romani Composer Janos Bihari's Memory Sites in Budapest under State Socialism
Arpad Bak

Chapter 7. Small-town Civility and the Concept of Liberty in Geza Ottlik's Opus Magnum
Ferenc Hoercher

PART III REFLECTIONS ON THE CONTEMPORARY CITY: MATERIAL, LITERARY, AND VISUAL CULTURES

Chapter 8. Surface Matters: An Archaeology of the Arrow Cross in Budapest's Facades
Laszlo Muntean

Chapter 9. Budapest in Noemi Szecsi's The Finno-Ugrian Vampire: The Grand and the Peripheral
Agnes Gyoerke

Chapter 10. Three Postcards of Budapest: Paradigms of the Urban Imaginary in Post-communist Hungarian Cinema
Gyoergy Kalmar

Chapter 11. Old City: Ageist Crime and Transgenerational Care in Kristof Deak's The Grandson (2022)
Eszter Ureczky

Notes on Contributors
Index
Central and Eastern Europe,Hungary,urban,translocal,20th century,21st century,literature,arts,material culture