{"product_id":"women-s-literary-tradition-and-twentieth-century-hungarian-writers-renee-erdos-agnes-nemes-nagy-minka-czobel-ilona-harmos-kosztolanyi-anna-lesznai-9789004417380","title":"Women’s Literary Tradition and Twentieth-Century Hungarian Writers: Renée Erdős, Ágnes Nemes Nagy, Minka Czóbel, Ilona Harmos Kosztolányi, Anna Lesznai","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Women’s Literary Tradition and Twentieth-Century Hungarian Writers, Anna Menyhért presents the cases of five women writers whose legacy literary criticism has neglected or distorted, thereby depriving succeeding generations of vital cultural memory and inspiration. A best-selling novelist and poet in her time, Renée Erdős wrote innovatively about women's experience of sexual love. Minka Czóbel wrote modern trauma texts only to pass into literary history branded, as a result of ideological pressure in communist times, as an 'ugly woman'. Ágnes Nemes Nagy, celebrated for her ‘masculine’ poems, felt she must suppress her ‘feminine’ poems. Famous writer’s widow Ilona Harmos Kosztolányi’s autobiographical writing tackles the physical challenges of girls' adolescence, and offers us a woman’s thoughtful Holocaust memoir. Anna Lesznai, émigrée and visual artist, wove together memory and fiction using techniques from patchworking and embroidery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The result is a fascinating reading about important stations in the selected writers' lives and careers along with Menyhért’s well-reflected challenging of their existing place in the Hungarian literary canon and her convincing arguments for the place they deserve in that very same canon. She undertakes this re-evaluation not only for the sake of demonstrating the shortcomings and narrow-mindedness of the existing canon but also to offer herself and other women writing today some literary predecessors of their own gender they can build on, both in terms of language and literary imagery and technique, and from whom they can take their inspiration. She demonstrates, against the oft-reiterated argument (by both male and some female literary critics and writers) that there is only one literature irrespective of the author’s gender, that gender matters, and that it matters to a very important degree when it comes to who is allowed entry into the canon and who, and why, is pushed to its margins or altogether out of it.”   -\tAgatha Schwartz, University of Ottawa Canada, in Hungarian Cultural Studies Vol. 14 2021 pp. 260-263\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword: a Writer in Search of Her Foremothers   emsp;Nadezhda Alexandrova and Suzan van Dijk  Acknowledgements   List of Illustrations   Translator’s Note     1 A Tradition of One’s Own   emsp;1 A Tradition of Forgetting   emsp;2 Canons and Sinking Streams   emsp;3 Women’s Literature   emsp;4 My Own Say   emsp;5 From Room to Room, All the Way to My Own Room   emsp;6 A Portrait Gallery on the Museum’s Postcard   2 Between Love and the Canon: Renée Erdős (1879–1956)   emsp;1 Author’s House: Closed   emsp;2 Private Life – Literary Life   emsp;3 Woman Writer at the Journal Future   emsp;4 The Woman Writer’s Chances   emsp;5 Voices in the Novels   emsp;6 Fracture   emsp;7 Success in Her Time   emsp;8 Contemporary Reviews   emsp;9 The Label of Erotic Lady Author   emsp;10 Female Voice, Female Verse   emsp;11 The Author’s House Is Open   3 In the Canon with Secrets: Ágnes Nemes Nagy (1922–1991) and the Women’s Literary Tradition   emsp;1 The Weeping Poetess   emsp;2 Secret Poems and the Writing of Literary History   emsp;3 The Female Poet and Objective Poetry   emsp;4 Woman’s Room, Woman’s Landscape, Woman’s Body  emsp;5 Self-Liquidation and Recognition   emsp;6 A Woman’s Role   emsp;7 Statue and Mask   emsp;8 Women’s Poetic Tradition   emsp;9 Entering the Room   emsp;10 Epilogue   4 No Canon for Otherness - The Witch: Minka Czóbel (1854–1943)   emsp;1 The Enigmatic Monographer   emsp;2 The Mysterious Bob   emsp;3 Detective Work   emsp;4 Painting a Portrait   emsp;5 Writing between the Lines   emsp;6 Ugly, Ugly, Not Fit for the Canon  emsp;7 Contemporary Views of Minka Czóbel   emsp;8 The Feminist Witch   emsp;9 The Otherness of the Witch   emsp;10 Loss of Control   emsp;11 Perversion, Horror, Revenge, Web   emsp;12 Boundaries, Mirrors   emsp;13 Reading the Witch   5 Mirror, Body, Trauma - a Writer’s Wife at the Edge of the Canon: Ilona Harmos Kosztolányi (1885–1967)   emsp;1 To Big Girls about Little Girls   emsp;2 Widow, Pigeonholed: the Writer’s Wife   emsp;3 Female Reading   emsp;4 Body   emsp;5 Mirror   emsp;6 Women’s Holocaust Memoirs   emsp;7 Trauma: Persecutors and Persecuted   emsp;8 Setting the Stage for Death   emsp;9 Connections: Ilona Harmos, Minka Czóbel, Dezső Kosztolányi, Ágnes Nemes Nagy   emsp;10 The Writing Woman  emsp;11 Sitting Down at the Writing Desk   6 Museum, Cult, Memory - Locked in the Canon: Lesznai (1885–1966)   emsp;1 Memory’s Volunteers   emsp;2 The Well- Known Woman Writer   emsp;3 Museum, Cult, Memory   emsp;4 Dusting Off a Novel   emsp;5 Belatedness and Renewal   emsp;6 Threads and Patterns   emsp;7 Female Figures   emsp;8 A Father’s Blessing   emsp;9 The Novel that Remembers   emsp;10 Nižný Hrušov – Memory’s Tou    Apendix 1 List of Poems and Their Translators   Apendix 2 A List of Titles of Works Referred to in English and in Hungarian   Bibliography   Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210789052759,"sku":"9789004417380","price":122.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/women-s-literary-tradition-and-twentieth-century-hungarian-writers-renee-erdos-agnes-nemes-nagy-minka-czobel-ilona-harmos-kosztolanyi-anna-lesznai-9789004417380","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}