Women's literary tradition and twentieth-century Hungarian writers : Renée Erdős, Agnes Nemes Nagy, Minka Czóbel, Ilona Harmos Kosztolányi, Anna Lesznai / by Anna Menyhért ; translated by Anna Bentley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Menyhért, Anna, 1969- author.

Contributor:

Bentley, Anna (Translator), translator.

Series:

Women writers in history ; 3.

Women writers in history ; volume 3

Standardized Title:

Női irodalmi hagyomány. English

Language:

English

Hungarian

Subjects (All):

Women authors, Hungarian--20th century.

Women authors, Hungarian.

Women authors, Hungarian--20th century--Biography.

Hungarian literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Hungarian literature.

Genre:

Biographies.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xx, 339 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill/Rodopi, [2020]

Language Note:

Published first in Hungarian (2013) under the title: Női irodalmi hagyomány : Erdős Renée, Nemes Nagy Ágnes, Czóbel Minka, Kosztolányiné Harmos Ilona, Lesznai Anna.

Summary:

"In Women's Literary Tradition and Twentieth-Century Hungarian Writers, Anna Menyhért presents the cases of five women writers whose legacy literary criticism has [been] neglected or distorted, thereby depriving succeeding Hungarian generations of vital cultural memory and the inspiration that [they] bring. The bold voices of poets Renée Erdős and Minka Czóbel challenged gender norms in relation to sex and relationships. 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 girl's adolescence, and offers us a woman's thoughtful Holocaust narrative. Anna Lesznai, émigrée and visual artist, drew on techniques from the crafts of patchworking and embroidery in structuring her family saga"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword: a Writer in Search of Her Foremothers / Nadezhda Alexandrova and Suzan van Dijk

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Translator's Note

1. A Tradition of One's Own : A Tradition of Forgetting

Canons and Sinking Streams

Women's Literature

My Own Say

From Room to Room, All the Way to My Own Room

A Portrait Gallery on the Museum's Postcard

2. Between Love and the Canon: Renée Erdős (1879- 1956) : Author's House: Closed

Private Life

Literary Life

Woman Writer at the Journal Future

The Woman Writer's Chances

Voices in the Novels

Fracture

Success in Her Time

Contemporary Reviews

The Label of Erotic Lady Author

Female Voice, Female Verse

The Author's House Is Open

3. In the Canon with Secrets: Ágnes Nemes Nagy (1922- 1991) and the Women's Literary Tradition : The Weeping Poetess

Secret Poems and the Writing of Literary History

The Female Poet and Objective Poetry

Woman's Room, Woman's Landscape, Woman's Body

Self- Liquidation and Recognition

A Woman's Role

Statue and Mask

Women's Poetic Tradition

Contents

Entering the Room

Epilogue

4. No Canon for Otherness

The Witch: Minka Czóbel (1854- 1943) : The Enigmatic Monographer

The Mysterious Bob

Detective Work

Painting a Portrait

Writing between the Lines

Ugly, Ugly, Not Fit for the Canon

Contemporary Views of Minka Czóbel

The Feminist Witch

The Otherness of the Witch

Loss of Control

Perversion, Horror, Revenge, Web

Boundaries, Mirrors

Reading the Witch

5. Mirror, Body, Trauma

A Writer's Wife at the Edge of the Canon: Ilona Harmos Kosztolányi (1885- 1967) : To Big Girls about Little Girls

Widow, Pigeonholed: the Writer's Wife

Female Reading

Body

Mirror

Women's Holocaust Memoirs

Trauma: Persecutors and Persecuted

Setting the Stage for Death

Connections: Ilona Harmos, Minka Czóbel, Dezső Kosztolányi, Ágnes Nemes Nagy

The Writing Woman

Sitting Down at the Writing Desk

6. Museum, Cult, Memory

Locked in the Canon: Lesznai (1885- 1966) : Memory's Volunteers

The Well- Known Woman Writer

Museum, Cult, Memory

Dusting Off a Novel

Belatedness and Renewal

Threads and Patterns

Female Figures

A Father's Blessing

The Novel that Remembers

Nižný Hrušov

Memory's Touch

Appendix 1: List of Poems and Their Translators

Appendix 2: A List of Titles of Works Referred to in English and in Hungarian.

Notes:

"Poems translated mainly by George Szirtes. Also by Anna Bentley, Peter Zollman, Katalin N. Ullrich and Hugh Maxton. All excerpts from prose works cited were translated by Anna Bentley" -- Verso title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Menyhért, Anna, Women's literary tradition and twentieth-century Hungarian writers

ISBN:

9789004417380

9004417389

OCLC:

1121420820