AMERICANA eBooks is a division of AMERICANA – E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, published by the Department of American Studies, University of Szeged, Hungary. Similarly to the aims of the e-journal, AMERICANA eBooks seeks to publish studies on a variety of topics concerning American Studies, from literature to sociology, from film to digital culture, from history to political science. Our aim is to provide a forum for young scholars seeking quality publishing – researchers who wish to contribute innovative and new approaches and methodologies to the field.
Topics in American Studies: History, Literature, and Culture 2
This new volume of AMERICANA eBooks, part of the Szeged Series in American Studies (SZESAS), addresses the issue of US society and culture at the threshold of crisis and healing in a selection of American literary representations. American society and culture has mostly been fragmented along many fracture lines, and the volume offers a collection of essays that focus on literary representations of these. The papers explore a diverse range of texts from highly canonized to almost marginal by interrogating the possibilities of transformation, agency, and the limits to healing. The discussions target the potential agency literary characters have in the articulation, planning, and eventual transformation of their life trajectories, inviting diverse theoretical frameworks for analyzing these scenarios.
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Topics in American Studies: History, Literature, and Culture 1
This volume of Americana eBooks has been designed to explore the theme of crisis in US culture and history, showing specific concern with changes generated by critical periods in the country’s history. As well as spanning various periods, the chapters encompass a diversity of topics and approaches ranging from historical linguistics through contemporary popular culture and film studies. With few exceptions, they all revolve around the problem of change and transformation – a concomitant effect of crisis – probing into its wider significance in American culture.
The Migration Factor in US History from the Civil War Era to the Present
This collection of studies aims to provide an overview of the intersection of migration and U.S. history—without claiming to be an exhaustive survey of this very broad field—and represents a well-researched, interesting, and detailed investigation of issues related to the correlation of migration and politics. The prevailing mode of analysis, which explores attitudes, mentalities, and how they shape the political arena, works well and represents a valid historiographical choice on the part of the author. The sections dealing with the United States within the chapter on global border walls in some ways complete the investigation into the migration factor in U.S. history: the Wall today harks back to the early, predominantly Southern fear of the non-Protestant immigrant, which over time has morphed into the “yellow man”, the Eastern European male, as well as the “Latino peril”, a notion with a centennial history but also a recent, unparalleled boom. Gergely Romsics Associate Professor and Senior Researcher Institute of Historical Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest; ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest
Hungarian Roots & American Dreams: Tracing Personal and Local History is a unique collection of family histories that provides an insight into Hungarian immigration to America and its intergenerational impact through the personal stories of immigrants and their descendants. It shows how earlier generations set out from Hungary, what challenges they faced, how they built new lives—and why some chose to return to Hungary. Personal accounts, letters, and photographs offer a rare glimpse into the past and help make these stories tangible to a wider audience, paying tribute to the hundreds of thousands who left Hungary in the hope of a better life. The volume also introduces around thirty Hungarian–American locations, framing the immigrants’ stories and legacy within a geographical context.
This book traces the journeys at the heart of Ursula K. Le Guin’s (1929-2018) Hainish Cycle—across planets, across identities, across the very boundaries of time—and explores the diverse implications of her protagonists’ voyages, as acts of escape, confrontation, healing, and transformation. Through close readings of The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, The Telling, and the late stories that reflect on and challenge the traditional quest formula, it argues that Le Guin’s characters are frequently denied the possibility of return, and must reconfigure themselves within the terra incognita of their travels. The study situates these texts within the wider tradition of New Wave science fiction, and feminist reworkings of the rite-of-passage narrative, offering a nuanced account of Le Guin’s engagement with the archetype of the quest. Positioning Le Guin at the intersection of genre history, cultural anthropology, and feminist criticism, this work demonstrates how her fiction negotiates the dialectic of home and exile, self and other, continuity and rupture.
The topic of the 2023 conference was Nomadisms, a concept that provided a pro-active, large academic platform that helped rebuild lost ties, find new and strengthen the existing ones. The topic also alluded to the circumstances of the partnership communities of Canadian and Hungarian scholars, alternatively moving between Szeged and Winnipeg in the past decades but also the the exchange of ideas, projects, texts that happened between and among colleages throughout the years.
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This collection of poems is Mike’s first volume of poetry. Echosystems contains his lyrical musings, distilled after years of travel and teaching. Mike’s world combines intriguing images of nature, and the cultures that stand in various relations with it alongside the human agent that binds them in a specific lyrical system. Most Mike’s poems contain eco-tropes, and his poetic world is a candid reflection of his personal experience, a genuine word–documentary of a micro-universe re-created through the eyes of a biologist fused with the soul of an Indigenous poet.
Step into the pages of “Hungarian Roots & American Dreams: Tracing Personal History,” and embark on a journey of discovery. Follow the paths of 48 different stories of Hungarian immigrants who ventured to America in search of a better life. Through heartfelt narratives and photographs from family photo albums, this book captures stories of their journeys, the challenges they faced, and the lives they built for themselves and their families. Discover how these dedicated people maintained their cultural heritage and left an indelible mark on their descendants, creating a tapestry of history that connects past and present on both sides of the ocean.
Paul Auster's Early Works and The Fallacy of Critical Reception
This book is an homage to Paul Auster, my hero, one of those artists whose oeuvre defies labeling. Decades ago, when I set out to write a monograph on his early work in Hungarian, The Invention of Solitude was my major source of inspiration. After last year, when I got the chance to translate it, I decided to publish everything I unearthed about the distinctive poetics conceived by an unsuccessful ‘bookish boy,’ who is now both revered as an acclaimed filmmaker and a prize-winning author with a profound literary legacy. My scholarly aspiration was simply to invite a wider readership to negotiate the critical controversies surrounding the literary achievements of a young, struggling artist. With the help of his Hungarian publisher, I managed to reach out to Auster through his assistant and ask for a portrait for the cover that would resonate with the time period surveyed in this monograph. His kind generosity was just as touching as the picture he sent me is moving. The photograph on the cover captures a twenty-three-year-old Paul Auster—eyes glowing with ‘friendship and comraderie’—a poet, translator, essayist, playwright, who winks at the failing author and the future literary lion both. His radiant smile will surely stay with those who are connected by the uncanny and sublime experience of roaming the boundless realms he created—the Austerean space of writing.
African American Masculinities in Ann Petry's Works
The book demonstrates an important addition to the currently developing criticism on Ann Petry’s works by enriching the interpretation of her oeuvre through a complex, intersectional reading, contributing to the global reception of this American author. With his interpretation, Hogar Najm Abdullah has successfully shown that through a black woman author’s perspective, Petry’s African American male characters can escape essentialist categorization(s) and build fluid identities; what is more, through an intersectional reading the characters also display a considerable potential in raising awareness about the pitfalls of categorical thinking. Petry’s legacy, as the author proved with his original contribution, lies thus in the progressive aesthetics represented by the ingenious identity-capacity of her complex black male characters, a strategy with which Petry successfully transgresses the confinement of the protest genre category.
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Előszó A latin-amerikai nemzetek irodalma a 20. században esztétikai paradigmaváltáson esett át, teljesedett ki, nyerte el sajátos, önálló arculatát, és robbant be a világirodalomba. A műveket napjainkig –gyakran megkülönböztetés nélkül, tévesen– a mágikus realizmus műfaji- és stílus irányzatába sorolják. A mágikus realizmus a 20. században születik, előfutárának a kubai Alejo Carpentier által megfogalmazott „amerikai csodás valót” tekinthetjük, amely szintén egy ideologikus világkép regénypoétikai megfogalmazása, a kontinens mitikus, ontológiai gyökereire vetülő jelenével. Tanulmánykötetünk első fejezetében, a „csodás való” néprajzi hátterének bemutatását követően, olyan latin-amerikai regényeket elemzünk, melyek írásmódja ezt a sajátos szimbiózist követi. A földrész sok országának 20. századi politikai-társadalmi életét zsarnoki diktatúrák határozzák meg. A kötet második fejezete ebből a témából szemezget, karibi, kubai, venezuelai és paraguayi művek vizsgálata révén. A latin-amerikai irodalomra rányomta bélyegét a gyarmati kor kizsákmányolása: így az őslakosok és a gyarmatosítók leszármazottjai reménytelenségét sugalló életérzés, a magány kérdése hangsúlyosan jelenik meg a kortárs elbeszélőművészetben. A harmadik fejezetben négy regényt elemzünk a témakörből. Az egyes szerzők narratívái pontosan tükrözik a különböző országok, régiók társadalmi valóságát és sokszínűségét. Az írók nem Európára kacsingattak, nem az európai irányzatokhoz igazodtak, gondolkodásuk a földrész, és hazájuk problémáira fókuszált, abból kiindulva fogalmaztak meg univerzális üzeneteket. Tudatosan vállalták és jelenítették meg környezetük kulturális, társadalmi értékeit, a valóság feszítő ellentmondásait, a feudál-kapitalizmust, a mulattizáció sokszor drámai paradoxonjait. Így született meg például a jellegzetesen latin-amerikai indigenizmus és az Antillák negrizmusa. Remélem, hogy a kötet tanulmányai hozzájárulnak majd ahhoz, hogy a 20-21. századi latin-amerikai regény végleg kiszakadjon a mágikus realista bűvkörből és egy sokkal árnyaltabb megvilágításba kerüljön. Dornbach Mária
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The purpose of this book is twofold. First, it is a biography of a European Jewish family, the Kranzthors, who migrated from Hungary to the USA near the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. A fully-referenced narrative of that family’s history is here presented, accompanied by genealogical trees, charts, photographs, and correspondence – including a reconstruction of an unpublished Holocaust letter. The lives of most of the members – four brothers (Max, Jacob, Alexander, Samuel) and three sisters (Katie, Fanny, Jenni) – and their descendants to the third generation, are examined, in order to reflect interrelations and interactions. Second, this book includes the full text of two historical plays with commentaries. How did they occur? After fascinating adventures through various American states (such as New York, Illinois, and primarily Texas of the silver rush period) and Mexico (of the gold rush period to the time of the 1910 revolution), a senior member of the family, Max Kranzthor (1853-1934), finally settled in Los Angeles just before World War I. There in the 1920s, after a change of direction to his career, from previously being a dry-good businessman to a real estate agent, and in his mid-70s, he wrote two plays. Both seem to have been aimed at the then embryonic ‘sound’ cinema in Hollywood: the first was about the famous gladiator-rebel Spartacus, the second about the famous (or infamous) King Herod. Although privately and fleetingly published, they have never been discussed or produced. They contribute to the long tradition of stage dramas written in Shakespearean style, featuring larger-than-life characters from both Roman history and Biblical history. Three people worked together for this book. Nikos wrote the two parts of the biography (and appendices), with documentary help from Thomas, and editing help from Henry. Nikos also wrote the introduction and commentary to Herod’s play, while Henry wrote the introduction and commentary to Spartacus’ play. The rest of the chapters were written jointly by Henry and Nikos, with editing help from Thomas. Dr Nikos Kokkinos, Archaeologist and Ancient Historian, is currently Academic Visitor at the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford. Professor Henry MacAdam is Visiting Professor, Liberal Arts/Humanities DeVry University, New Jersey. Thomas Sayers is a genealogical researcher in Los Angeles.
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Further Critical, Theoretical and Analytical Explorations of U.S. Culture, Literature and History
Further Critical, Theoretical and Analytical Explorations of U.S. Culture, Literature and History collects and connects publications by the staff of the Department of American Studies at the University of Szeged across a wide range of subjects: American popular culture, visual culture, children’s literature, modernist literature, autobiography, performance studies, Interamerican Studies. Order the book in print
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Revisiting the Past: American Culture in Contemporary Context collects and connects publications by the staff of the Department of American Studies at the University of Szeged across a wide range of subjects: American popular cuture, visual culture, children’s literature, modernist literature, autobiography, performance studies, Interamerican Studies. Order the book in print
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Critical Explorations of U.S. Culture, Literature and History
Critical Explorations of U.S. Culture, Literature and History collects and connects publications by the staff of the Department of American Studies at the University of Szeged across a wide range of subjects: American popular culture, visual culture, children’s literature, modernist literature, autobiography, performance studies, Interamerican Studies. Order the book in print
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A modern amerikai drámák nemzetközi sikerének dacára a XX. század második feléig a drámához és színházhoz köthető társadalmi attitűd ezt a műfajt többnyire kizárta az amerikai magas irodalomból. Az amerikai színház elsősorban a szórakoztatóipar részeként alakult ki, és csak bizonyos alkotások révén harcolta ki magának a jogot, hogy művészetként létezzen. A legtöbb irodalomtörténész és -kritikus a drámairodalmat az „erkölcstelennek vélt színház” nemkívánatos „törvényen kívüli ivadékának” tartotta. A harmadik évezred elejére, az amerikai dráma kinőtte „fattyú” állapotát és az amerikai művészet és kultúra egyik fő képviselőjévé vált. Ebből az új perspektívából értelmezik át és képzelik újra a kortárs Amerikát A fattyú művészet nyomában. Írások amerikai drámáról és színházról szerzői (Bollobás Enikő, Kurdi Mária, Varró Gabriella, Vernyik Zénó, Németh Lenke, Csapó Csaba, Kürtösi Katalin, Dragon Zoltán és Cristian Réka M.), akik bepillantást nyújtanak olyan, e műfajjal kapcsolatos kérdésekbe, melyekkel a magyar anglista és amerikanista oktatók és kutatók foglalkoznak. Jelenleg az amerikai dráma több magyar egyetemen és főiskolán számos angol nyelvű kurzus anyagának része, ezért a legtöbb publikáció e téren angol nyelven jelenik meg. Fontosnak tartottuk, hogy legújabb kutatásainkat és eredményeinket magyar nyelven is közreadjuk e szabad hozzáférésű elektronikus formában a téma iránt érdeklődők számára.
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This ebook is published in Hungarian. English abstract: Part of an effort to bring together scholarly interests and expertise in an interdisciplinary manner, this volume features essays by Hungarian scholars of varied academic background, yet with a common and strong commitment to understanding the cultures of the United States from a visual perspective. Probing into issues emerging at the intersection of visuality and American Studies, the essays address questions related to the impact of information society on the production and reception of American cultural artifacts often in a transnational context. The opening study by László Z. Karvalics sets the framework for an understanding of the significance of visuality in American culture, in relation to the information society. He argues how the related change affected practices of everyday life as well as thinking about the link between visuality and American cultures. His historically inspired analysis is complemented by András Lénárt’s discussion of the reception of Franco’s Spain in Hollywood movies. Lénárt concentrates on the ways in which censorship affected the representation of a political regime that was in sharp contrast with the US political system. The same diachronic concern informs Csaba Lévai’s study of The Patriot (2000), a mainstream Hollywood representation of the American War of Independence, which aims to show how history is reproduced and adapted in a way meeting today’s ideological expectations of the American culture industry. With a more contemporary passion and a strong transnational concern, Erzsébet Barát looks at the ways in which Euro- and Amero-English discourses of feminism informed N.A.P., a Hungarian political visual campaign launched for the apportionment of women’s political representation in Parliament. Her case study sheds light on the politically charged understandings of the various waves of feminism in a Hungarian context. László Sári B.’s essay also chooses a contemporary subject which is nonetheless taken from the world of literature. In his analysis of Chuck Palahniuk’s Invisible Monsters (1999), he addresses the problem of the influence of visual media on contemporary American minimalist fiction. Sári B. argues for the significance of intermediality in the book as an alternative to issues of post-modernist epistemological concerns or identity politics. The problem of visuality as a theme becomes even more accentuated in the essay of Diána Gollowitzer, who attempts to show how television as a traditional media form is transformed by the new media. Her particular example being TV series, she argues how the new ways of media usage in the transformed internet environment changed both the reception of series and through that the status of consumers also becoming producers. Finally, drawing on Lev Manovich’s insights into the role of software in the production of Hollywood films, Zoltán Dragon’s essay extends the concept of media hybridization to show how films such as The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-3), eXistenZ (1999) and others draw upon software technology in different ways. Whether through production or representation, they are, to varying extent, the result of the mechanism and the consequences of software-governed film-making technologies. A borító Orodán Mihály grafikája alapján készült. E kötet a TÁMOP-4.2.1/B-09/1/KONV-2010-0005 azonosító számú, „Kutatóegyetemi Kiválósági Központ létrehozása a Szegedi Tudományegyetemen” című projekt keretében, az Európai Unió támogatásával, az Európai Regionális Fejlesztési Alap társfinanszírozásával valósult meg.
Válogatta, szerkesztette és a fordításokat az eredetivel egybevetette: Kurdi Mária és Csikai Zsuzsa; az Előszót Kurdi Mária írta Fordította: Bach Anikó, Balassa Zsófia, Csikai Zsuzsa, Görcsi Péter, Kromják Laura, Kurdi Mária, Nyisztor Miklós, Oroszlán Anikó, Rosner Krisztina, Surányi Ágnes, Szverle Ilona és Vasas Katalin Lektorálta: Hartvig Gabriella Tartalom A kötet fejezetei Marvin Carlson öt könyvéből és két tanulmányából közölnek részleteket, illetve további két tanulmányt teljes egészben közre adnak magyar fordításban. Ezek a szövegek 1990 és 2011 között születtek és keresztmetszetet nyújtanak az ezredforduló színháztudományának olyan kérdéseiről és folyamatairól, mint a színházszemiotika, interkulturalitás, többnyelvűség a színpadon, a történelem újrajátszásai, az előadás eseményszerűsége és a performanszok világa a posztstrukturalista elméletek kontextusában. Marvin Carlson adatokkal és tanácsokkal segítette a vállalkozást, továbbá a válogatásban érdeklődésük, tanulmányaik és a potenciális olvasók általuk feltételezett igényeinek megfelelően nagy segítségére voltak a szerkesztőknek maguk a fordítók is. Egyetemi oktatók, fiatal kutatók, doktori hallgatók és mesterszakos diákok alkotják a fordítói gárdát. Kiadó, szerkesztők és fordítók közösen reméljük, hogy a szövegek hasznára lesznek mind a színházzal foglalkozó szakembereknek és tanároknak, mind a színházi tanulmányokat folytató, graduális és posztgraduális diákoknak, valamint a színházat szerető olvasóknak általában is. © The University of Michigan 2001, 2006 az alábbi könyvekből vett részletek esetében:Carlson, Marvin. The Haunted Stage: Theatre as Memory-Machine, Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2001; Carlson, Marvin. Speaking in Tongues: Languages at Play in the Theatre, Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2006 © The University of Iowa Press, 2009 az alábbi könyvből vett részletek esetében:Carlson, Marvin. Theatre is More Beautiful than War: German Stage Directing in the Late Twentieth Century, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2009 Az e-könyv verziók mellett a kötetből Print-on-Demand változat is készült, amit az Amazon.com és a Createspace online boltjaiból lehet beszerezni.
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Az amerikai dráma, színház és Miller művészetének kritikai feltérképezésében, elemzésében számos tanulmány és könyv látott nálunk napvilágot az utóbbi években. Arthur Miller öröksége: centenáriumi írások műveiről című könyvünk ezekhez az eredményekhez csatlakozik, Miller születésének (1915) centenáriuma alkalmából jelentetjük meg. Hiánypótló gyűjteménynek tekinthető, hiszen Millerről az utóbbi évtizedben nem jelent meg hasonló kötet vagy monográfia Magyarországon. A szerzők egyetemi oktatók és doktoranduszok, a kötet szerkesztője a PTE tanára. A tanulmányok közös vonása, hogy egyrészt Miller olyan népszerű műveit, mint Az ügynök halála és A bűnbeesés után olyan korszerű szempontok bevonásával elemzik, mint a családdráma paradigmája, illetve a drámanarratológia eredményei. Másrészt kevésbé ismert műveket vizsgálnak, például a Gyújtópont című regényt, valamint a Lefelé a hegyről és a Feltámadás blues című késői drámákat. Egyes tanulmányok Miller színházi írásainak részleteire és a drámaíró nemzetközi színházi kapcsolataira szintén figyelmet fordítanak. Munkáikban a széleskörű szakirodalmi tájékozódás mellett a szerzők különböző releváns elméleti belátásokra támaszkodnak. Borító koncepció: Sebestény Csilla Az e-könyv verziók mellett a kötetből Print-on-Demand változat is készült, amit az Amazon.com és a Createspace online boltjaiból lehet beszerezni.
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Miközben a világ számos pontján horizontálisan, és az egyes társadalmakban vertikálisan is még mindig igen nagy eltérések vannak a női emancipáció terén, a média egyre gyakrabban beszél arról, hogy a XXI. század a nők évszázada lesz, és az utóbbi években egyre erősödő tendenciaként mutatkozik a tudományban is, hogy új kutatási irányok bontakoznak ki a női tapasztalat és szemléleti sajátosságok megjelenítésére. A témához kapcsolódva a Szegedi Tudományegyetem hispanista műhelyében 2013 novemberében került megrendezésre a Nők a hispán világban című tudományos konferencia amelynek előadásai kiindulópontként szolgáltak jelen kötet összeállításához, kiegészítve hispanista kollégák hasonló témában született tanulmányaival. A kötet szerkesztőinek reményei szerint az itt közölt munkák azt bizonyítják, hogy a női szempont igen sokrétűen érvényesíthető, releváns megközelítés az általuk kutatott régióban is. Az e-könyv verziók mellett a kötetből Print-on-Demand változat is készült, amit az Amazon.com és a Createspace online boltjaiból lehet beszerezni.
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The essays in this book have one common denominator, the discussion of the concept of the border in American culture. Partly motivated by a symposium held on this very topic in late 2014 at Eszterházy Károly University of Applied Sciences of Eger, Hungary, the subsequent call for papers resulted in a variety of submissions. The starting point of all essays was Gloria Anzaldua’s statement: „[B]orderlands are not specific to the [American] Southwest. In fact the borderlands are physically present wherever two or more cultures edge each other, where people of different races occupy the same territory, where under, lower, middle and upper classes touch, where the space between two individuals shrinks with intimacy.” As a whole the nine articles involved treat issues related to the actual U.S.-Mexico border and U.S.-Canadian border, investigate the consequences of the encounter of different cultures, and examine the borderlines discernible in popular culture including film and music, literature, i.e. slave narratives and history. Cover by Emese Zámbó We also offer a paperback, Print-on-Demand version of this book, available from Amazon.com and CreateSpace.
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Itt közreadott kötetünk az ELTE Irodalomtudományi Doktori Iskolája Testi, kapcsolati és narratív alanyiság az irodalomban és a kultúrában” elnevezésű kutatócsoportjának a munkája. A kutatócsoportot 2015 tavaszán hívta életre Bollobás Enikő; tagjai két féléven át, a doktori kurzusok adta heti rendszerességgel találkoztak. A szubjektumelméletek összetett problematikájának különböző témaköreit tanulmányozták, együtt járva be azt a különös elméleti teret, amelynek fogalmi keretét az elbeszélő alany, a kapcsolati alany és a korporalizált alany, valamint a performativitás alkotja. Címlapterv: Petrák Fanni
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Crime and Detection in Contemporary Culture
The manuscript was reviewed by Maurizio Ascari and Bohumil Fořt Cover image: Dávid Levente Palatinus Contemporary cultural production shows that crime- and detective fiction has a pervasive presence in our historic moment. It has got an extremely wide and solid fan base, it has always been around and its popularity and centrality in the cultural domain since the 18th century has been amply demonstrated by a wide range of scholarly approaches. Crime and Detection in Contemporary Culture brings together contributions by a wide range of international authors, and attempts to reposition crime writing by directing attention to the ways in which it has always been a peculiar and key mode of channelling cultural imaginaries about violence, transgression and various instances of social pathology. While highlighting crime fiction’s ability to constantly reinvent itself, its ubiquity and reliance on participation that make it, as a genre as well as a mode, so powerful and capable of mobilizing audiences more than any other form of genre fiction, the collection offers innovative approaches to recent manifestations both in literary fiction and across converging media that demonstrate how crime fiction as a critical paradigm becomes more and more conducive to (generic) subversion, transgression and hybridization. The volume draws on the scholarly legacy of studying crime through the converging areas of history, literature, culture, gender and politics, and aims to constitute crime fiction as a mode which successfully channels social anxieties and ethical dilemmas both historically and in our present historic time when our sense of security has become eroded in relation to our identities. It is a venture in showing the centrality of the figuration of crime in modern culture, as well as a heavily structured analysis focusing on issues of genre, social and political aspects of the culture of crime, and media-specific problems of its representation.
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Posthumanism in Fantastic Fiction is a collection of interdisciplinary studies by established and emerging international scholars devoted to the discussion of literary redefinitions of the human subject’s place in the world. They focus on fantasies that challenge anthropocentric epistemology and Cartesian dualism to redraw the boundaries between the human, the animal, the technological, the natural environment, and the ‘inanimate’ object world. The articles combine the methodological apparatuses and theoretical insights of critical animal-, plant-, thing- studies and posthumanist philosophy with literary theories of the fantastic narrative mode. They scrutinize an impressive range of literary fantasy subgenres, including the postmodern science-fiction dystopia, ecohorror, mythopoeia, (new) weird fiction, environmentalist picturebook, and proto-modern ghost story. Contributors venture to explore how a posthumanist identity politics allows to address metaphysical, philosophical, ethical, legal, technological concerns beyond speciesist shortsightedness. The volume embraces a common goal of humanists and posthumanists by aiming to listen more attentively to the promise of companion species as the best chance for preserving and responsibly inhabiting our worlds. Cover image: Zsófia Jakab. Swan Maiden. Oil on canvas. 50 x 70 cm, 2016. We also offer a paperback, Print-on-Demand version of this book, available from Amazon.com. Table of Contents Anna Kérchy: Introduction Kathleen McCracken: ‘For Us To Live A Star Must Die’ Enikő Bollobás: The Fantastic as Performative:Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce Performing the Unreal Kendra Reynolds: “We’re All The Same, Under The Skin”: Michel Faber’s Ecofeminist Web of Equality Éva Federmayer: The Genesis of the Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Reading of Toni Morrison’s A Mercy Gergely Nagy: A God Like the Animals: the Mythological Subject in Frank Herbert’s God Emperor of Dune Daniel Nyikos: “Growing grey and brittle”: The Horror of Abjection in H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space” Péter Kristóf Makai: “One sentence disguising a multitude of horrors”: Humankind Sentenced to Life in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy András Molnár: “Everything Was Crawling within Itself”: Posthumanism in the New Weird Stuff of Thomas Ligotti’s Short Fiction Florian Zitzelsberger: “No one can sing who has smog in his throat”: Voices of Environmentalism and Ecological Awareness in Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax Chengcheng YouPicturing a Posthuman Identity: Personhood, Affect and Companionship Ethics in Mary Liddell’s Little Machinery and Shaun Tan’s The Lost Thing András Fodor: Space or place? Posthumanist Revisions of Absence and Presence in China Miéville’s The City and The City Korinna Csetényi: “The monsters are us”: Mad Scientists and Mutated Beasts in Contemporary Natural Horror Fiction Edit Újvári: The Iconographic Motif of the Hellmouth, the Man-Eating Beast and Giger’s Alien Figure Alina Gabriela Mihalache: Rhinos Go on Stage: Animal Allegory Behind and Beyond the Iron Curtain András Bernáth: The Challenge of the Old Mole:A Key Problem in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Its Reception
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the largest institutional expression of Mormonism, a religion born in the United States through Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805–1844). Present in Europe since 1837, it entered through Great Britain and later extended its work to the continental and Scandinavian nations. The new religion first called for believers to emigrate to America and to participate in building a Zion there, with tens of thousands of Europeans making the journey. Eventually this push to emigrate was replaced by the aim of building a stable church organization – a local Zion – in each European country. Today, the 500,000 Latter-day Saints on the books in Europe are part of a global religion, one that seeks to balance its American roots and center in Utah with the needs of adherents worldwide. What did Mormonism’s early arrival in different countries entail? What was personal conversion like and what was emigration’s role in it? Which non-Utah expressions of Mormonism have made a mark on the European scene? What is Mormonism’s place in modern European countries, and how does it fit with their native cultures? How does that fit affect its prospects for future success? This volume showcases the Old Continent’s cultures encountering a religion from the New World, as interpreted by recognized experts in Mormon Studies. We also offer a paperback, Print-on-Demand version of this book, available from Amazon.com.
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From early times on, the concept of the border and home in the Americas was continuously changing, denoting sometimes ephemeral boundaries and temporary locations. Throughout the history, the westward expansion in the U.S.A. as well as the independence wars in Central and South America relativized the concept of dividing lines and homes, respectively. With time, the geographical frontiers of the continent’s countries together with the politically symbolic demarcations gained additional meanings and while in some cases borderlines emphasized actual separation between states, in other cases they pointed only at the historical heritage of a given region. Moreover, geographic, political, economic and cultural borders both separate and connect American countries; the transnational migration tendencies of the 20th and 21st centuries show that the home-searching process still goes on with the peoples of the Americas finding their new habitats on the same continent―but in another country. Cover and book design: Zoltán Dragon
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Edited and Introduced by Ágnes Zsófia Kovács Language editor: William Potter The Osprey Notes extends the map of Edith Wharton’s travel writing by rendering available short texts related to Wharton and travel from the Wharton Collection of the Beinecke Rare Book Collection at Yale University. It features the text of Edith Wharton’s previously unpublished Osprey notebook about her cruise to the Aegean in 1926, her early essay on seeing “Education of through the Eyes,” and her poem “Penelope” by courtesy of the Watkins and Loomis Agency. The archival material documents Wharton’s ongoing early interest in architecture, travel from the perspective of a woman, and writing about travel: at the intersection of these issues lies Wharton’s travel writing. The introductory essay locates Wharton’s 1888 journal and 1926 notebook about the Aegean, The Cruise of the Vanadis and the Osprey Notes, in the context of her theories about architecture in general and her other travel writing in particular. The texts provide new contexts for each other as well. This volume will be of interest to students, teachers and researchers alike. Cover image: Benedictine Monastery, Monreale. © Matthias Süssen
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Ian Ross kanadai drámaíró színműve (eredeti cím: FareWel). (In Hungarian.) Fordította: Barna Zsanett és Borthaiser Nóra It’s getting tense on the Partridge Crop Reserve. The Chief is in Las Vegas (again), the band is in receivership, and the Reserve is unilaterally declaring self-government. As if things weren’t bad enough already, the welfare cheques don’t arrive and the people of this fictional First Nation are forced to take control of their lives. Cover image: Réka M. Cristian
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This ebook is published in Hungarian. English abstract: Footprints of the Old Man – Metafiction, Simulation, Hypertextuality and Authorship by Norbert Gyuris examines the concept of authorship from three angles. The textual aporia of the author is considered in books by Paul Auster, Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Twain, Bret Easton Ellis, Vladimir Nabokov, Edgar Allen Poe, Jonathan Swift and John Fowles. The cross-section of literary simulation and authorial functions are observed in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose. The mutating role of the author in hypertexts is elaborated on and analyzed in Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night the Traveler.
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A Tennessee Williams Hollywoodba megy, avagy a dráma és film dialógusa című kötetben Dragon Zoltán arra vállalkozik, hogy az adaptációelmélet jelenleg is domináns elméleti-kritikai érvrendszerét és szókincsét, valamint metodológiai készletét megújítsa – mindezt pedig Tennessee Williams drámáiból készült világhírű filmadaptációk elemzésével. A könyvben bevezetett intermediális dialógus illetve a mediális törés fogalmai gyümölcsöző és rugalmas interpretációs keretet nyújtanak nem pusztán Williams életművének értelmezéséhez, hanem tágabb értelemben véve a filmadaptáció vizsgálatához is. Bár az AMERICANA eBooks elkötelezettje az e-könyveknek, igyekszik köteteit a lehető legszélesebb körben megismertetni, a lehető legtöbb érdeklődő olvasóhoz eljuttatni. Ezért ez a könyv nyomtatott, puhafedeles változatban is elérhető az alábbi online boltokból: CreateSpace, Amazon.com.