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Acta Universitatis de Carolo Eszterházy Nominatae, Dec 31, 2022
Bamberger Studien zu Literatur, Kultur und Medien, 2024
Jelen értekezés célja, hogy a klasszikus angol detektívtörténet aranykorának (Golden Age) legjele... more Jelen értekezés célja, hogy a klasszikus angol detektívtörténet aranykorának (Golden Age) legjelentősebb képviselői közé tartozó három írónő, Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, és Josephine Tey detektívregényeiben megvizsgálja az angolság mítoszát megidéző szimbólumok, emlékezethelyek szerepét, valamint az ebből fakadó ellentmondásokat, feszültségeket – mindezt a nosztalgia és emlékezet mechanizmusainak középpontba állításával. A dolgozat további célkitűzései közé tartozik annak bemutatása, hogy a műfaj – a klasszikus krimi – a látszólag sematikus narratív struktúra ellenére meglehetősen intenzíven reagált az 1920-1950-es évek között végbemenő kulturális és társadalmi változásokra, és meghatározó szerepet játszott a korszak emlékezetpolitikájának felülvizsgálatában. Ennek a felismerése egy szélesebb kritikai irányzatnak tulajdonítható, amely az ún. „középfajú” (middlebrow) irodalom újraolvasását kezdeményezte, melynek része a klasszikus krimi is. A middlebrow irodalom legfontosab...
Book review: Edwards, Martin. The Golden Age of Murder. London: Harper Collins, 2015. 528 pages. ... more Book review: Edwards, Martin. The Golden Age of Murder. London: Harper Collins, 2015. 528 pages. ISBN 0008105960. Hb. £16.59
Similarly to other genres, Britain’s crime fiction could not escape the traumas of the World Wars... more Similarly to other genres, Britain’s crime fiction could not escape the traumas of the World Wars despite its ‘escapist’ mission. A return to the country house either in ruralareas, small towns or ‘villagized’ city centres is one of the phenomena which intensified with a growing awareness of mass production and technological development after the Great War. Classical crime fiction which has the middle-class in its focus wonderfully reflects such concerns. The unbearable sight of the present and the terrifying feeling of losing the past deprive the English middle-class of their existence in proper space and time. Their perpetuity in the carefully constructed milieu is constantlyinformed by new waves of modernity either in various forms of crime or disturbing characters. Allingham and Tey wonderfully demonstrate the agonies of modernity reflected in the character of the young female figure and her choice of places for action. In my paper I seek to explore the battle of the Victorian A...
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A domestic noirban, ahogy S. J. Watson regényében és annak filmadaptációjában is, a női szereplők... more A domestic noirban, ahogy S. J. Watson regényében és annak filmadaptációjában is, a női szereplők az ágencia új formáját demonstrálják: a huszonegyedik századi középosztálybeli otthonokban a háziasszonyok aktív résztvevői saját életüknek, értően elemzik saját viktimizációjukat, és alternatív eszközökkel küzdenek a változtatás érdekében. A jelen tanulmány Carisa R. Showden feltevésére alapoz, vagyis arra, hogy a női ágencia a bántalmazó kapcsolatokban is kifejlődhet, olyan helyzetekben, ahol talán a legkevésbé számítunk rá. A regény és a film is kiemelt figyelmet tulajdonít a viktimizáció és az ágencia kapcsolatának, azonban a két szöveg eltérő stratégiákat alkalmaz annak bemutatására, hogy az amnéziás főhős, Christine Lucas hogyan küzd egy önazonos és független szubjektum újraalkotásáért.
Eger Journal of American Studies, 2020
Crime and Detection in Contemporary Culture is an edited collection of scholarly essays which add... more Crime and Detection in Contemporary Culture is an edited collection of scholarly essays which addresses a relatively long-standing debate around the genre of crime fiction, its significance in shaping the literary map of the past two hundred years, its contribution to not only popular but mainstream literature and culture as well. It is, then, no surprise, that the editors in the Introduction, immediately start outlining the traditional critical approach to the genre, which was rather hostile and discriminative. Similar to dozens of criticisms written about crime and detective fiction, the introductory paragraphs point out that this type of literature was marginalized for being labelled as escapist and lowbrow texts, cheap literature that has no literary value due to its formulaic nature or flat characterization. Furthermore, its proliferation and popularity in the book market associated the genre with mass production, low-quality writing and lower-class readership. Undoubtedly, crime fiction suffered from this narrow-minded and mean critical attitude for decades but the turn of the century brought a rapid increase in academic criticism that targeted the revision and re-interpretation of the genre which was also part of the vivid interest in cultural studies. Along with other leading critics and acclaimed authors of crime fiction, such as Stephen Knight, Charles J. Rzepka, Mary Evans, Andrew Pepper or P. D. James, the present volume also calls for and participates in the process of re-visioning and re-evaluating the status of the genre by claiming that it has always been truly contemporary in its ability to continuously re-invent itself and reflect on the social, cultural and political context of its own time since its appearance in the 19 th century. Another intriguing aspect of this type of literature lies not only in its popularity with people of all social classes or educational level, but also in its capacity to inspire writers with very different literary backgrounds. While literary critics from the 1930s did a lot to prevent the genre from rising to its deserved place, mainstream or 'serious' writers could not resist the temptation of not only becoming a fan, e.g. W.H. Auden, but felt the urge to write crime/ detective stories. The Introduction illustrates this phenomenon with literary examples from the postwar era to hint at the genre's flexibility to cross boundaries between high-, middle-or lowbrow literature. Writers like Cormac McCarthy, Paul Auster and
Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Jun 28, 2020
Golden Age detective fiction by women offers insights into the competing gender ideologies of the... more Golden Age detective fiction by women offers insights into the competing gender ideologies of the 1930s and early 1940s. The female protagonist these novels delineate is called “the female gentleman” by Melissa Schaub, who describes her as the detective’s equal based on her intellectual abilities and independence. Although the female gentleman seems a revolutionary figure as she is forward-looking in gender politics, her strong belief in class hierarchy, her Victorian morals and relationship with the gentleman detective relocate her in the heritage of the English pastoral. This essay focuses on the female gentleman as a bridge figure whose marriage to the detective not only restores him to his masculinity but also portrays the woman embedded in the pastoral idyll of the English landscape. Her decision to accept traditional femininity reinforces the female gentleman’s role in the recreation of the stability and security of pre-war England. (RZs
Eger Journal of English Studies, 2020
This article discusses the house as a site of memory in the novels of Margery Allingham, where it... more This article discusses the house as a site of memory in the novels of Margery Allingham, where it embodies a tension between the past and the present that turns the domestic milieu into a place of ...
in Hungarian...............................................................................161 Ab... more in Hungarian...............................................................................161 Abstract in English....................................................................................163in English....................................................................................163 Publications of the Author...........................................................................165
Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica, 2021
Hanna Jameson’s post-apocalyptic detective novel, The Last (2019), addresses contemporary issues ... more Hanna Jameson’s post-apocalyptic detective novel, The Last (2019), addresses contemporary issues that affect us on both a collective and an individual level. The author diagnoses the denial of nuclearism and calls for an awareness of the nuclear age combined with the looming threat of climate change. The novel negotiates alternative strategies for the treatment of crisis brought about by the nuclear attack and borrows many of the thematic and structural elements from twentieth-century nuclear fictions in which the apocalypse is not necessarily regarded in negative terms but as a chance for regeneration. The events of the post-nuclear months in a Swiss hotel are narrated by an American historian whose written account serves several goals. It gives the illusion of delaying crisis, but it also reveals his fears and traumas conjured up by radioactive spectres. There are two different types of narratives at work, the narrative of the crisis and that of the investigation. The narrator-pro...
Acta Universitatis de Carolo Eszterházy Nominatae, Dec 31, 2022
Bamberger Studien zu Literatur, Kultur und Medien, 2024
Jelen értekezés célja, hogy a klasszikus angol detektívtörténet aranykorának (Golden Age) legjele... more Jelen értekezés célja, hogy a klasszikus angol detektívtörténet aranykorának (Golden Age) legjelentősebb képviselői közé tartozó három írónő, Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, és Josephine Tey detektívregényeiben megvizsgálja az angolság mítoszát megidéző szimbólumok, emlékezethelyek szerepét, valamint az ebből fakadó ellentmondásokat, feszültségeket – mindezt a nosztalgia és emlékezet mechanizmusainak középpontba állításával. A dolgozat további célkitűzései közé tartozik annak bemutatása, hogy a műfaj – a klasszikus krimi – a látszólag sematikus narratív struktúra ellenére meglehetősen intenzíven reagált az 1920-1950-es évek között végbemenő kulturális és társadalmi változásokra, és meghatározó szerepet játszott a korszak emlékezetpolitikájának felülvizsgálatában. Ennek a felismerése egy szélesebb kritikai irányzatnak tulajdonítható, amely az ún. „középfajú” (middlebrow) irodalom újraolvasását kezdeményezte, melynek része a klasszikus krimi is. A middlebrow irodalom legfontosab...
Book review: Edwards, Martin. The Golden Age of Murder. London: Harper Collins, 2015. 528 pages. ... more Book review: Edwards, Martin. The Golden Age of Murder. London: Harper Collins, 2015. 528 pages. ISBN 0008105960. Hb. £16.59
Similarly to other genres, Britain’s crime fiction could not escape the traumas of the World Wars... more Similarly to other genres, Britain’s crime fiction could not escape the traumas of the World Wars despite its ‘escapist’ mission. A return to the country house either in ruralareas, small towns or ‘villagized’ city centres is one of the phenomena which intensified with a growing awareness of mass production and technological development after the Great War. Classical crime fiction which has the middle-class in its focus wonderfully reflects such concerns. The unbearable sight of the present and the terrifying feeling of losing the past deprive the English middle-class of their existence in proper space and time. Their perpetuity in the carefully constructed milieu is constantlyinformed by new waves of modernity either in various forms of crime or disturbing characters. Allingham and Tey wonderfully demonstrate the agonies of modernity reflected in the character of the young female figure and her choice of places for action. In my paper I seek to explore the battle of the Victorian A...
Apertura
A domestic noirban, ahogy S. J. Watson regényében és annak filmadaptációjában is, a női szereplők... more A domestic noirban, ahogy S. J. Watson regényében és annak filmadaptációjában is, a női szereplők az ágencia új formáját demonstrálják: a huszonegyedik századi középosztálybeli otthonokban a háziasszonyok aktív résztvevői saját életüknek, értően elemzik saját viktimizációjukat, és alternatív eszközökkel küzdenek a változtatás érdekében. A jelen tanulmány Carisa R. Showden feltevésére alapoz, vagyis arra, hogy a női ágencia a bántalmazó kapcsolatokban is kifejlődhet, olyan helyzetekben, ahol talán a legkevésbé számítunk rá. A regény és a film is kiemelt figyelmet tulajdonít a viktimizáció és az ágencia kapcsolatának, azonban a két szöveg eltérő stratégiákat alkalmaz annak bemutatására, hogy az amnéziás főhős, Christine Lucas hogyan küzd egy önazonos és független szubjektum újraalkotásáért.
Eger Journal of American Studies, 2020
Crime and Detection in Contemporary Culture is an edited collection of scholarly essays which add... more Crime and Detection in Contemporary Culture is an edited collection of scholarly essays which addresses a relatively long-standing debate around the genre of crime fiction, its significance in shaping the literary map of the past two hundred years, its contribution to not only popular but mainstream literature and culture as well. It is, then, no surprise, that the editors in the Introduction, immediately start outlining the traditional critical approach to the genre, which was rather hostile and discriminative. Similar to dozens of criticisms written about crime and detective fiction, the introductory paragraphs point out that this type of literature was marginalized for being labelled as escapist and lowbrow texts, cheap literature that has no literary value due to its formulaic nature or flat characterization. Furthermore, its proliferation and popularity in the book market associated the genre with mass production, low-quality writing and lower-class readership. Undoubtedly, crime fiction suffered from this narrow-minded and mean critical attitude for decades but the turn of the century brought a rapid increase in academic criticism that targeted the revision and re-interpretation of the genre which was also part of the vivid interest in cultural studies. Along with other leading critics and acclaimed authors of crime fiction, such as Stephen Knight, Charles J. Rzepka, Mary Evans, Andrew Pepper or P. D. James, the present volume also calls for and participates in the process of re-visioning and re-evaluating the status of the genre by claiming that it has always been truly contemporary in its ability to continuously re-invent itself and reflect on the social, cultural and political context of its own time since its appearance in the 19 th century. Another intriguing aspect of this type of literature lies not only in its popularity with people of all social classes or educational level, but also in its capacity to inspire writers with very different literary backgrounds. While literary critics from the 1930s did a lot to prevent the genre from rising to its deserved place, mainstream or 'serious' writers could not resist the temptation of not only becoming a fan, e.g. W.H. Auden, but felt the urge to write crime/ detective stories. The Introduction illustrates this phenomenon with literary examples from the postwar era to hint at the genre's flexibility to cross boundaries between high-, middle-or lowbrow literature. Writers like Cormac McCarthy, Paul Auster and
Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Jun 28, 2020
Golden Age detective fiction by women offers insights into the competing gender ideologies of the... more Golden Age detective fiction by women offers insights into the competing gender ideologies of the 1930s and early 1940s. The female protagonist these novels delineate is called “the female gentleman” by Melissa Schaub, who describes her as the detective’s equal based on her intellectual abilities and independence. Although the female gentleman seems a revolutionary figure as she is forward-looking in gender politics, her strong belief in class hierarchy, her Victorian morals and relationship with the gentleman detective relocate her in the heritage of the English pastoral. This essay focuses on the female gentleman as a bridge figure whose marriage to the detective not only restores him to his masculinity but also portrays the woman embedded in the pastoral idyll of the English landscape. Her decision to accept traditional femininity reinforces the female gentleman’s role in the recreation of the stability and security of pre-war England. (RZs
Eger Journal of English Studies, 2020
This article discusses the house as a site of memory in the novels of Margery Allingham, where it... more This article discusses the house as a site of memory in the novels of Margery Allingham, where it embodies a tension between the past and the present that turns the domestic milieu into a place of ...
in Hungarian...............................................................................161 Ab... more in Hungarian...............................................................................161 Abstract in English....................................................................................163in English....................................................................................163 Publications of the Author...........................................................................165
Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica, 2021
Hanna Jameson’s post-apocalyptic detective novel, The Last (2019), addresses contemporary issues ... more Hanna Jameson’s post-apocalyptic detective novel, The Last (2019), addresses contemporary issues that affect us on both a collective and an individual level. The author diagnoses the denial of nuclearism and calls for an awareness of the nuclear age combined with the looming threat of climate change. The novel negotiates alternative strategies for the treatment of crisis brought about by the nuclear attack and borrows many of the thematic and structural elements from twentieth-century nuclear fictions in which the apocalypse is not necessarily regarded in negative terms but as a chance for regeneration. The events of the post-nuclear months in a Swiss hotel are narrated by an American historian whose written account serves several goals. It gives the illusion of delaying crisis, but it also reveals his fears and traumas conjured up by radioactive spectres. There are two different types of narratives at work, the narrative of the crisis and that of the investigation. The narrator-pro...