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Tétel Szabadon hozzáférhető Doubling Dublin(2020-06-24) Szot, BarbaraThe article examines the use of references to the topography of Dublin in mimetic and anti-mimetic sections of Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds (1939). It studies the three different layers of fiction that have been defined on the basis of their ontological status within the narrative. The article argues that references to actual Dublin locations serve as a means of building and then breaking the mimetic framework of the seemingly realistic descriptions that belong to the first two layers (“reality” and “fiction” within the novel). The strikingly anti-mimetic Western novel sections (“fiction within fiction”), which lack any credibility in their depiction of Dublin, can be seen as a radical rewriting of the urban space that does in fact have the actual city’s character at its core. O’Brien thus unsettles the conventions (and the readers’ expectations) and explores the possibilities of representing elements of the real world in fiction.Tétel Szabadon hozzáférhető Coming of Age and Urban Landscapes in Edward P. Jones’s “Spanish in the Morning” and “The Girl Who Raised Pigeons”(2020-06-24) Lénárt-Muszka, ZsuzsannaThis analysis of “Spanish in the Morning” (2009) and “The Girl Who Raised Pigeons” (1992) by Edward P. Jones offers a preliminary (re-)interpretation of the urban imaginary in Jones’s oeuvre by focusing on how urban places interact with the protagonists’ coming-of-age process. Detailed descriptions of routes, references to exact locations in the city, spatial relations, and changes of place run through both stories. Relying on trauma theory and Jon Anderson’s conceptualization of places, the essay argues that the geographical landscape is in the forefront in these narratives, but not as a means of emphasizing, matching, or complementing the emotional one, but rather to hide it from view. The protagonists’ memories and identities gain expression in spatial terms, but foregrounding the city is posited as a hindrance to their coming-of-age process insofar as it prevents them from accepting the reality of their loss and from facing and coping with trauma. (ZsLM)Tétel Szabadon hozzáférhető “. . . one part life and nine parts the other thing”(2020-06-24) Botelho, TeresaBringing the act of artistic creation to the stage involves a multiplicity of strategies and interrogations that are not easily contained within the boundaries of the “drama of the artist” as understood in its quasi-biographical sense. This is especially true of visual art which cannot be represented by words only but requires a different kind of presence on stage. In many Künstlerdramas the biographical presence tends to impose recognizable limits to the fictionalization exercise, which frequently turns to the individual creator as the center of an inquiry into the problematics of artistry. This paper discusses how two contemporary Künstlerdramas , John Logan’s Red (2009) and John Murrell’s The Far Away Nearby (1996), attempt to reinvent the trope by weaving the biographical record with the performative presence of acts of staged visuality that re-center the act of artistic creation. (TB)Tétel Szabadon hozzáférhető Reading in the Dark, Sleeping with the Lights On(2020-06-24) Kérchy, AnnaBook review: McCort, Jessica R., ed. Reading in the Dark. Horror in Children’s Literature and Culture . Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2016. pp. 256. ISBN 978-1496806444. Hb. $56.99.Tétel Szabadon hozzáférhető Tétel Szabadon hozzáférhető Normative Senses of Spaces, Radical Places of Genders(2020-06-24) Tóth, AndreaBook review: Kovács, Ágnes Zsófia, and László B. Sári, eds. Space, Gender, and the Gaze in Literature and Art . Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2017. 232 pages. ISBN 9781443831550. Hb. £52.99.Tétel Szabadon hozzáférhető Dracula Addressing Old and New(2020-06-24) Limpár, IldikóBook review: Crişan, Marius-Mircea, ed. Dracula: An International Perspective . Palgrave Gothic. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. xi + 280 pages. ISBN 978-3-319-63365-7. Hb. $101.51.Tétel Szabadon hozzáférhető Slum or Arcadia? Hungary as “Other Space” in Imre by Edward Prime-Stevenson(2020-06-24) Bojti, ZsoltThis essay substantiates the reasons why Edward Prime-Stevenson’s novelette, Imre (1906), which is considered to be the first openly gay novel in English with a happy ending, is set in an imaginary Budapest called Szent-Istvánhely. The paper suggests that there is a list of references to Hungary in late-Victorian gay literature that Prime-Stevenson builds upon. Another common element in these works is that the location, more specifically, the city landscape, plays an important role that maps the gay city and reflects on the English slumming culture in the East End. The paper substantiates the claim that Prime-Stevenson’s fictional Budapest functions as a Foucauldian heterotopias, which can juxtapose and reconcile oppositions coming from associations with Western and Eastern cultures, the slum and an Arcadia, respectively. (ZsB)Tétel Szabadon hozzáférhető They Dare Disturb the Universe(2020-06-24) Awale, RashaBook review: Kauffman, L. A. Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism. London: Verso, 2017. 236 pages. ISBN 978-1-78478-409-6. Pbk. $12.Tétel Szabadon hozzáférhető Death onto Life—A Guide to Edward Albee(2020-06-24) Prohászka-Rád, BorókaBook review: Roudané, Matthew. Edward Albee: A Critical Introduction . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2017. 200 pages. ISBN 978-0-521-72695-5. Pbk. £14.99.Tétel Szabadon hozzáférhető Our Affairs from England(2020-06-24) Vince, MátéBook review: Kiséry, András. Hamlet’s Moment. Drama and Political Knowledge in Early Modern England . New York, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016. 340 pages. ISBN 9780198746201. Hb. £66.Tétel Szabadon hozzáférhető Creation of Artists and Audiences in Morna Pearson’s The Artist Man and the Mother Woman (2012)(2020-06-24) Beck, AndrásThis essay explores Northeast Scotland-born Morna Pearson’s first full-length play, The Artist Man and the Mother Woman (2012), a grotesque portrait of a tortured relationship of a middle-aged artist-teacher and his troubled mother. As Pearson’s dark comedy gradually turns into a violent tale of horror, new semantic dimensions unfold from beneath the initial surface of light entertainment, among them the exploration of the nature of artistic creativity. The sources of this creativity lie in belated sexual awakening and the powers this process unleashes. The essay argues that due to the representation of the liminal artist figure both as a creator and as a creation, Pearson’s Künstlerdrama studies the creation of art and the creation of the artist as intertwined processes which are difficult to distinguish. (AB)Tétel Szabadon hozzáférhető From Achilles’s Tent to a San Francisco Restaurant(2020-06-24) Horváth, Imre OlivérThis essay examines Thom Gunn’s key poems, chronologically mapping Ruth E. Fassinger’s model of gay and lesbian identity development onto it. Gunn’s poetry gradually changed in terms of how he addressed his homosexuality: whereas in his early work his sexual orientation was concealed, later it became increasingly visible, to the point of unambiguously referring to himself as “queer” in a poem from the 1980s. The poems discussed in this article—“The Wound” (1954), “The Secret Sharer” (1954), “The Corridor” (1957), “The Monster” (1961), “Bravery” (1967), “Behind the Mirror” (1976), and “Talbot Road” (1982)—address the split self of the speaker accompanied by spatial division. The poems with this leitmotif form a corpus characterized by a gradual change in terms of the rigidity of the division. Identifying the spatial division as the closet and the split self as the closeted subject, the article argues that Gunn’s coming out of the closet is a recurring poetic device deliberately developed throughout his oeuvre, which demonstrates his growth as an artist. (IOH)Tétel Szabadon hozzáférhető Affect for Mothers and Others(2020-06-24) Lénárt-Muszka, ZsuzsannaBook review: Lane, Julia and Eleonora Joensuu, eds. Everyday World-Making: Toward an Understanding of Affect and Mothering. Bradford, ON: Demeter P, 2018. 340 pages. ISBN 978-1-77258-140-9. Pbk. $34.95.Tétel Szabadon hozzáférhető "Burden” Or What It Means to Be Black in America Today(2020-06-24) Khedhir, YesminaBook review: Riley, Rochelle, ed. The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery . Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2018. 178 pages. ISBN 978-0-8143-4514-6. Hb. Npr.Tétel Szabadon hozzáférhető Train to Castle Von Aux(2020-06-24) Majer , KrzysztofWhile deWitt’s writing enjoys commercial and critical success, it has inspired very little academic scrutiny. This is perhaps due to deWitt’s avoidance of Canadian settings and themes in favor of motifs from American popular culture or European folktales. Just as The Sisters Brothers (2011) relied on deWitt’s ironic use of the Western formula, so Undermajordomo Minor (2015) constitutes a playful attempt at rejuvenating several tired genres. In the story of young Lucy Minor’s acquisition of a dubious post at the eerie Castle Von Aux there are unmistakable elements of the Gothic romance, the fable, and the Bildungsroman, all spiced up with a quirky cinematic aesthetic. Equally strong are the echoes of Walser’s Jakob von Gunten , Kafka’s The Castle , and Bernhard’s Gargoyles , themselves richly interconnected. Through these diverse allusions and a curious blurring of geographical and historical boundaries, deWitt creates transgeneric fiction, which may be understood as transnational in the sense assumed by Kit Dobson or Peter Morgan.Tétel Szabadon hozzáférhető Bridging the Narrative Gap(2020-06-24) Tomczak, Anna MariaThe essay reads Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014) in the context of Walter D. Mignolo’s discussion on “border thinking” and “border gnosis” in Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking (2000). Through introducing the narrative voice of Sir Arthur Jennings Marlon James creates a link between past and present, between Caribbean and European tradition of cultures of orality and literacy, and between pre- and post-colonial times, critically engaging in the erasure of thresholds of epistemological location. Specific attention is paid to Sir Arthur’s role as a “duppy” (a ghost or spirit in the religious practice of Obeah) and as a “griot” (an African/Caribbean bard and story-teller) whose function is to narrate and document local histories and guard verbal art traditions of the community. (AMT)Tétel Szabadon hozzáférhető Irish Native Autobiography(2020-06-24) Jarząb-Napierała, JoannaThe paper addresses Tomás O’Crohan’s The Islandman (1929) as a representative of Irish native autobiography. The genre, it is argued, best defines the specificity of O’Crohan’s work, since it well delineates the complexity of its creation process involving an author, an editor, and a translator. Furthermore, the reading of The Islandman as Irish native autobiography sheds a new light on the text as capturing Walter Benjamin’s media shift from oral to written tradition observable at the beginning of the twentieth century. Tomás O’Crohan manages to converge the art of storytelling with a new genre of autobiography thanks to many foreign influences, especially Maxim Gorky’s life-narratives. Consequently, The Islandman , contrary to the traditional understanding of the work as purely Irish, thus free of any outside leverage, emerges as a cosmopolitan text which, similarly to other European literary works of the time, successfully adapts the oral heritage to a new form of autobiography.Tétel Szabadon hozzáférhető Dissolving Boundaries in the Anthropocene(2020-06-24) Tóth, ZsoltBook review: Kérchy, Anna, ed. Interspecies Dialogues in Postmillenial Filmic Fantasies , special issue of AMERICANA E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary . 13.2 (2017) Kérchy, Anna, ed. Posthumanism in Fantastic Fiction . AMERICANA eBooks , 2018. 237 pages. ISBN 978-615-5423-46-8. EPUB. Open Access.Tétel Szabadon hozzáférhető Middle Passage in Black Expressive Culture(2020-06-24) Mózes, DorottyaBook review: Wilker, Frank. Cultural Memories of Origin: Trauma, Memory, and Imagery in African American Narratives of the Middle Passage . Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017. 302 pages. ISBN 9783825361921. Hb. $49.05.