Delight or Poison
For most of the 20th century, Hungarian literary history disregarded decadence as a thematic or stylistic marker and refused to acknowledge that it was a significant cultural driving force of the fin-de-siècle Hungarian literature. I propose to interpret decadence not as a mere stylistic, moral or t...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Sciendo
2024-11-01
|
| Series: | Hungarian Studies Yearbook |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/hsy-2024-0006 |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1846096735003213824 |
|---|---|
| author | Tőtős Dorottya |
| author_facet | Tőtős Dorottya |
| author_sort | Tőtős Dorottya |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | For most of the 20th century, Hungarian literary history disregarded decadence as a thematic or stylistic marker and refused to acknowledge that it was a significant cultural driving force of the fin-de-siècle Hungarian literature. I propose to interpret decadence not as a mere stylistic, moral or temporal category, but as a cultural trope, a modernist way of perceiving the world and creating art. I hypothesize that the Hungarian reception of French and English decadence at the end of the 19th century produced a uniquely reflexive version of this phenomenon. I aim to understand how decadence integrates into and presents itself in Hungarian literature and to uncover significant works hidden by the cultural forgetfulness of Hungarian literary history. |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj-art-f8e6adb84ac54b83a5db0c07c7988019 |
| institution | Kabale University |
| issn | 2668-7542 |
| language | English |
| publishDate | 2024-11-01 |
| publisher | Sciendo |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Hungarian Studies Yearbook |
| spelling | doaj-art-f8e6adb84ac54b83a5db0c07c79880192025-01-02T06:04:53ZengSciendoHungarian Studies Yearbook2668-75422024-11-016110312310.2478/hsy-2024-0006Delight or PoisonTőtős Dorottya01Babeș-Bolyai University, Doctoral School of Hungarology StudiesFor most of the 20th century, Hungarian literary history disregarded decadence as a thematic or stylistic marker and refused to acknowledge that it was a significant cultural driving force of the fin-de-siècle Hungarian literature. I propose to interpret decadence not as a mere stylistic, moral or temporal category, but as a cultural trope, a modernist way of perceiving the world and creating art. I hypothesize that the Hungarian reception of French and English decadence at the end of the 19th century produced a uniquely reflexive version of this phenomenon. I aim to understand how decadence integrates into and presents itself in Hungarian literature and to uncover significant works hidden by the cultural forgetfulness of Hungarian literary history.https://doi.org/10.2478/hsy-2024-0006decadencefin de sièclejoris-karl huysmanszsigmond justhdezső malonyay |
| spellingShingle | Tőtős Dorottya Delight or Poison Hungarian Studies Yearbook decadence fin de siècle joris-karl huysmans zsigmond justh dezső malonyay |
| title | Delight or Poison |
| title_full | Delight or Poison |
| title_fullStr | Delight or Poison |
| title_full_unstemmed | Delight or Poison |
| title_short | Delight or Poison |
| title_sort | delight or poison |
| topic | decadence fin de siècle joris-karl huysmans zsigmond justh dezső malonyay |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/hsy-2024-0006 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT totosdorottya delightorpoison |