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.

Series:

Women writers in history ; Volume 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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill Rodolpi, [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 neglected or distorted, thereby depriving succeeding Hungarian generations of vital cultural memory and the inspiration that brings. 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.

Contents:

Foreword: 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.

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.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-41749-4

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004417496 DOI