Állati jelképek: Irodalmi és művészettörténeti mozaikok

Authors

Éva Vígh (ed)
University of Szeged
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0891-0864
Edit Újvári (ed)
University of Szeged
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4552-1585
Anna Kérchy (ed)
University of Szeged
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9042-9545
Emma Bálint (ed)
University of Szeged
https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3953-7975
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14232/animalia.2024.1

Synopsis

Az Animalia Kutatóközpont 2023. évi szimpóziumának tizenkét, irodalom-, művészet- és művelődéstörténeti előadását tartalmazza az Animalia eBooks első száma. A kötet egyúttal jelzi azt az időben és térben megnyilvánuló, műfaji és elméleti vonatkozású sokféleséget, amely az állatok szerepét és szerepeltetését, szimbolikus megjelenítését példázza a magyar és több más -francia, angol, német, olasz, amerikai - kultúrában. A zoomorfizált ember és az antropomorfizált állat reprezentációja és elemzése kapcsán olvashatunk tanulmányt a középkori kőfaragványokon, a reneszánsz kori paradoxon irodalmában, a barokk festményeken, a felvilágosodás századában társadalomkritikai vonatkozásban megjelenő állatalakokról. De a kafkai metamorfózis, a kortárs líra és novellairodalom, a költészet és festészet találkozása, közismert festmények kortárs átfogalmazásainak, illetve fajközi kapcsolódásaink kérdése, valamint a meseirodalom filmes feldolgozása is teret kap a részletes elemzésekben. Az Állati Jogok Egyetemes Nyilatkozatának közlése pedig elvi megfontolásból zárja a könyvsorozat első számát.

Chapters

Author Biographies

Éva Vígh, University of Szeged

is Professor Emerita of the Italian Department of the University of Szeged, Head of the Research Centre for Antiquities and Renaissance: Sources and Reception and the Animalia Research Centre, Vice President of the Centro Internazionale di Studi Giovan Battista Della Porta (Naples). His research interests include medieval and modern cultural history, Italian literary history of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque, court culture, the role of physiognomy in literature and in the arts, and the cultural history of animal symbolism. The latter is the subject of his edited volume Állatszimbólumtár (2019) and his book of studies Állatszimbolika a közép- és újkori Itália irodalmában (2018).

György Fogarasi, University of Szeged

is an associate professor and department head of comparative literature at the University of Szeged, Hungary. Research areas: classical rhetoric, 18th-century aesthetics, romantic literature/philosophy, and critical theory. His book on Necromanticism and Critical Theory (Nekromantika és kritikai elmélet, 2015) contains readings of Gray, Wordsworth, Marx, and Benjamin. Recent publications foregrounding the question of animality include: “If There Is Such a Thing as Dignity: Scenes of Silence in De Vigny’s ‘The Death of the Wolf,’” Confluente, 2020, 153‒165; “The Attention of the People: Mein Kampf and Thurber’s Owl,” Papers in Arts and Humanities, Vol. 4, No. 1, June 2024, 16‒36.

Lili Czeglédi, University of Szeged

graduated with an excellent degree in January 2024 as a teacher of Hungarian language and literature and Ethics and Moral Philosophy from the University of Szeged, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She wrote her thesis about analysing the wolf symbol through a comparison of Alfred de Vigny’s The Death of the Wolf (La Mort du Loup, 1843/1864) and János Pilinszky’s Fable (1962). In addition to the study of animal symbols, her main interests focus on the issues and problems of the human-animal relationship, as well as the ethical aspects of personalism and phenomenology, and she’s concerned with these both in literature and film.

Attila Buda, Toldy Ferenc Könyvtár

is a librarian of the Institute of Hungarian Literature and Cultural Studies at ELTE between 1993 and 2016. He has worked on the works of Zoltán Ambrus, Mihály Babits and Ágnes Nemes Nagy, the journal Nyugat, and edited a series on the beginnings of the Japanese Empire in Hungary and cat literature in Hungarian. Recent publications: A helyettesítés. Babits Mihály prózájáról (Budapest, Ráció, 2018), Buda Attila (ed.): „Mije lehetek én önnek?” Ambrus Zoltán és Jászai Mari levelezése (Budapest, Ráció, 2023), Buda Attila (ed.) „de mi lesz a következő folytatással?” A Nyugat Kiadó könyvei és dokumentumai (Budapest, Ráció, 2023).

Anna Tüskés, HUN–REN Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont

is a habilitated assistant professor at the Department of Art History, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pécs and a research associate at the Institute of Literary Studies, HUN-REN Research Centre for Humanities. He received his MA and PhD degrees from the Department of Art History, Eötvös Loránd University, in 2005 and 2009. Her research interests include 20th-century art, French-Hungarian literary relations, and book and library history. She is the author of ten books and numerous studies.

Csilla Mihály, University of Szeged

is an assistant professor at the Department of Austrian Literature and Culture, University of Szeged. Her research interests include: the literature of German Romanticism and Expressionism, the oeuvre of Franz Kafka, interpretive theory and methodology. Recent publications: Haberland, Detlef, Mihály Csilla és Orosz Magdolna (szerk.): Literarische Bilder vom Ersten Weltkrieg (Wien, Praesens Verlag, 2019), „A bábeli torony avagy A város címere. Irodalmi szöveg és kontextus.” Filológiai Közlöny 2021/1. 70-81. és Franz Kafka virtuális színháza (Budapest, Ráció 2023).

Luca Rausch-Molnár, University of Szeged

is an assistant professor at the Institute of Languages for Specific Purposes at Semmelweis University, where she teaches and researches English and French language use for medical purposes. Besides her research in Applied Linguistics, she also studies literature on art. The topic of her Ph. D. dissertation is the literary reception of early 18th-century French painter, Jean-Antoine Watteau. Her publications focus on the connection between art and society and the literary reception of art in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries and have been published in Hungarian, French, Slovakian, and Romanian volumes in Hungarian and French.

Endre Raffay, University of Pécs

is an art historian, associate professor, head of the department of art history. He has a PhD and habilitation in Árpád-period art, and has written a book on the ruins of the temple in Arac and other monuments of art from around 1200. He is also researching turn-of-the-century art, and has written a book about the building of the Budapest Academy of Music, entitled Apollo's Sanctuary. He is the initiator and organiser of the annual international conference on the preservation of monuments in Fehérvárcsurgó. He is also active in contemporary art: he is the founder and director of the Art and Monument Conservation Artists' Residency Programme in Senta, Serbia. He teaches at the University of Pécs (Faculty of Arts, Art History Department) and the Liszt Ferenc University of Music in Budapest (Doctoral School).

Katalin Bartha-Kovács, Szegedi Tudományegyetem

is an associate professor at the Department of French Studies at the University of Szeged. Her research interests include the theory of art in France in the 17th and 18th centuries (especially the writings of Denis Diderot on art); research of motifs (the concept of silence, the je-ne-sais-quoi, the theories of passions, representations of animals: the monkey). Her most recent publications are: Diderot et Watteau. Vers une poétique de l’image au XVIIIe siècle (Paris, L’Harmattan, 2019) and Hét arabeszk – Watteau-olvasatok (ed. Krisztina Bertók, Budapest, Martin Opitz Kiadó, 2021).

Edit Újvári, University of Szeged

is a college professor at the University of Szeged, Department Head of The Department of Cultural Studies. She is the author of more than 140 publications including four monographs, the co-author of three books, and the co-editor of Encyclopedia of Symbols. Her current research interest are Visual Semiotics, Iconography, animal symbols and sign theories, on which she has published a book entitled “Leaving a Sign”: Semiotic Analysis of Rites and Works of Visual Art published at the University of Szeged Press in 2015. She is a member of the Semiotics Working Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Secretary at the Animalia Research Centre.

Anna Kérchy, University of Szeged

is a full professor at the English Department of the University of Szeged, Hungary. Her main research areas include 19th‒ and 21st-century women’s writing, children’s literature and fantastic fiction, intersections of Victorian and postmodern imagination, gender/body studies, feminist literary theory, posthumanimal studies, and the inter-/ transmedial aspects of cultural representations. She authored four monographs including The Poetics and Politics of Victorian Nonsense (Akadémiai Kiadó, 2024), (co)edited ten essay collections and published on animal studies: "Alice's Non-Anthropocentric Ethics: Lewis Carroll as a Defender of Animal Rights" (Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens, 2018) , "A fajok közti szolidaritás poszthuman etikai lehetőségei" (TNT Ef, 2019), "Chimeric Visions: Posthuman Somaesthetics and Interspecies Communication in Contemporary Humanimal Body Art Performances" (HJEAS, 2020).

Emma Bálint, University of Szeged

is an assistant professor at the University of Szeged. She received her Ph.D. degree at the Doc-toral School of Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Szeged. In her dissertation and research, she has focused on classic fairy tales and children’s literature, along with their con-temporary and new media adaptations. She has published her research in essay collections and journals (Híd, Djetinjstvo, AMERICANA: E-journal for American Studies) in English and Hungarian.

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September 20, 2024

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