| Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies Contributor(s): Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven (Editor), Vasvári, Louise O. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1557535930 ISBN-13: 9781557535931 Publisher: Purdue University Press OUR PRICE: $59.35 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Austria & Hungary - Art | History - Contemporary (1945- ) - History | Essays |
| Dewey: 943.905 |
| LCCN: 2010044574 |
| Series: Comparative Cultural Studies |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.40 lbs) 376 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The studies presented in this volume are intended as an addition to scholarship in (comparative) cultural studies. More specifically, the articles represent scholarship about central and east European culture with special attention to Hungarian culture, literature, cinema, new media, and other areas of cultural expression. The volume's articles are grouped into five sections: part one, History Theory and Methodology of Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies, includes studies on the prehistory of multicultural and multilingual central Europe. Part two, Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies and Literature and Culture, focuses on the reevaluation of canonical works, as well as Jewish studies, which has been explored inadequately in central European scholarship. Part three, Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies and Other Arts, includes articles on race, jazz, operetta, art, fin-de-siecle architecture, communist-era female fashion, and cinema. In part four, Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies and Gender, articles are about aspects of gender and sex(uality) with examples from fin-de-siecle transvestism, current media depictions of heterodox sexualities, and gendered language in the workplace. The volume's last section, part five, Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies of Contemporary Hungary, includes articles about post-1989 issues of race and ethnic relations, citizenship and public life, and new media. |
Contributor Bio(s): Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven: - Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek's areas of scholarship include comparative literature and cultural studies; comparative media and communication studies; postcolonial studies; migration and ethnic minority studies; film and literature studies; audience studies; and European, US-American and Canadian cultures, among others. His single-authored books include Comparative Cultural Studies and the Future of the Humanities; Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application; and The Social Dimensions of Fiction. His edited volumes include New Work in the Study of World Literatures and in Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies; Digital Humanities and the Study of Intermediality in Comparative Cultural Studies; Perspectives on Identity, Migration, and Displacement; Comparative Central European Holocaust Studies; and Imre Kertész and Holocaust Literature. Zepetnek has published approximately 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals and his work has been translated into Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, Marathi, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish. Tötösy de Zepetnek is series editor of the Purdue University Press series Books in Comparative Cultural Studies and editor of the Purdue University Press journal CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture.Vasvari, Louise O.: - Louise O. Vasvari taught at the State University of New York Stony Brook where she is professor emerita. She has also taught at the Universities of California Berkeley and currently teaches at New York University. Her recent book publications include The Heterotextual Body of the Mora Morilla, Companion to the Libro de Buen Amor, and Imre Kertész and Holocaust Literature. |