Literatura

„nem középiskolás fokon”

András Veres — k, 23 dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The presentation is a case study of the 1970s reform of secondary school literature education in Hungary, written by a direct participant. In 1972, an unexpectedly progressive policy sought to reform the educational system on unusually democratic principles for a one-party state. Since its implementation exceeded the Ministry of Education’s capacity, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences offered assistance. The first step was to define the structure and content of cultural literacy, followed by preparations for an educational reform planned for the turn of the 1970s and 1980s. The process emphasized professional criteria and aimed to limit ideological influence. Young researchers from the Institute for Literary Studies compiled a new literary and cultural curriculum and produced textbooks with grant support. These introduced new authors and works while rethinking interpretive frameworks. The reformers expected the renewal of literature teaching to raise general cultural literacy, reshape the literary canon, and advance literary scholarship. Yet the reform lacked preparation: teachers received little support, and conservative backlash
from university leaders and politicians deepened uncertainty. Nonetheless, professional standards enabled a broader and deeper understanding of literature.

Kitelepítéstől a migrációig

Sándor Bene — k, 23 dec 2025 14:27:12 +0000

The study reviews the series of handbooks on Hungarian literary history written and edited in the Institute of Literary Studies (former Institute of Literary History). It concludes that the prerequisite for the success of collective works of this nature is the creation of a solid institutional background. In this case, the six-volume series entitled A magyar irodalom története (The History of Hungarian Literature), published between 1964 and 1966, was produced by full-time researchers at the Institute, which was founded in 1955 within the organizational framework of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for this very purpose. The consolidation phase of Marxist ideology after 1956 enabled a number of methodological innovations. No author was excluded or “displaced” any more from national literary history because of ideological reasons. The creation of the comprehensive handbook was supported by well-organized and well-funded primary research-in-the-field for sources and comparative history of literary criticism as well. In recent decades, circumstances have not allowed for the successful repetition of this project,
despite the absence of ideological control. Since the end of the 2010s, the Institute of Literary Studies has been separated from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and its institutional framework has changed twice since then; instead of migration of texts, authors and ideas, literary historians are invited to deal with their own migration between various institutions. The constant uncertainty about funding and the frequent changes in the institutional background are a real obstacle to a long-term collective literary history work.

„…kész és rendezett kincsesház”

Zoltán Szénási — k, 23 dec 2025 14:32:18 +0000

The study deals with critical editions among the summaries and collective works being produced at the Institute of Literary Studies. In this context, it describes the institutional framework of textual criticism in Hungary, focusing particularly on the role of the Textological Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in preparing critical editions. It also briefly touches on the social significance of scholarly text editing. The study focuses specifically on electronic publishing within the context of critical editions, distinguishing between different types (digitised, informatised and born-digital editions) and describing the key elements and tools of the DigiPhil digital philology methodology used at the Institute for Literary Studies. To illustrate critical editions produced at the Institute, the study describes the activities of the Babits Research Group and the opportunities that digital conversion offers for scholarly text editions.

A fordító és a fordítás terei a 20. század első felében 1.

Ildikó Józan — k, 23 dec 2025 14:39:28 +0000

The phenomenon and function of translation in the 19th and 20th centuries was not only a matter for the sciences, Hungarian literary history, and canonical literature, but also appeared in surprisingly rich and varied discourses in the columns of daily newspapers and periodicals. The paper explores text of different genres, forms, registers, depths, and lengths (news, essays, columns, reviews, short stories, anecdotes, humour, advertisements, etc.) in the context of the first half of the 20th century, using two approaches. On the one hand, it tries to show how translation, going beyond its own strictly literary and linguistic poetics, became a means of representing cultural, social, and political situations and processes. On the other hand, it also traces the image that may have existed or developed about translators, as well as the channels, genres, themes, situations, and discourses through which the „news” about translators reached the public and what imaginary and reflective spaces it evoked.

„kivel beszélhet egy öregasszony?”

Ágnes Klára Papp — k, 23 dec 2025 14:47:55 +0000

The present study is part of a series of analyses that attempt to chart a new field of minority studies through the interpretation of works that depict old age as a vulnerable condition. It therefore begins by addressing the question of which specific theoretical domains are engaged when old age is presented as a minor experience. The theoretical inquiry is followed by four analyses of texts by Magda Szabó, Tibor Déry, Iván Mándy, and Miklós Mészöly, of which the latter two are included here. These four works come from representative authors of the Kádár era—writers with very different social backgrounds and worldviews—who, through their portrayals of old age as a minority experience, also respond to their own age and its relation to the past. Even on this basis, it becomes clear that issues concerning socio-political relations, history, and memory will be particularly observable in these writings. At the same time, the comparison proves promising because the four authors, in terms of their artistic methods, span a wide spectrum—from traditional psychological realism to variants of late modern prose poetics—leading to very different strategies in narrating the experience of old age.

Az anyaság terhe

Katalin Bódi — k, 23 dec 2025 18:35:56 +0000

Narratíva, empátia, identitás

Márta Horváth — k, 23 dec 2025 18:42:34 +0000

Megnyitott a Danyi-butik

Dániel Fenyő — k, 23 dec 2025 18:49:51 +0000