Paradise from behind the Iron Curtain : reading, translating and staging Milton in Communist Hungary / Miklós Péti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Péti, Miklós, author.

Contributor:

Jánosy, István, 1919-2006, translator, adapter.

Kazimir, Károly, adapter.

Curran, Stuart A., honoree.

Wittreich, Joseph Anthony, associated name, donor.

Stuart Curran-Joseph Wittreich Milton Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Literature and translation

Language:

English

Hungarian

Subjects (All):

Milton, John, 1608-1674--Appreciation--Hungary.

Milton, John.

Milton, John, 1608-1674--Translations into Hungarian--History and criticism.

Communism and literature.

Milton, John, 1608-1674.

Art appreciation.

Hungary.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : UCL Press, 2022.

Language Note:

Appendix in Hungarian and English.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Forms of attention and neglect: Milton's epics in print and on stage-and in oblivion

2. Samson: an unlikely hero of socialism

3. A tale of two scholars: Milton's prose in communist Hungary

4. 'I rebel quietly': revolution and gender in Hungarian translations of Milton's shorter poems

Epilogue

Appendix: Elveszett Paradicsom/Paradise Lost, translated by István Jánosy [adapted to the Stage by István Jánosy and Károly Kazimir. Rendered back into Milton's English by Miklós Péti].

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-281) and index.

Contains:

Dramatization of: Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost.

Dramatization of: Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost. Hungarian

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781787358553

1787358550

9781787358546

1787358542

OCLC:

1328030360