Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-370) and index.
Contents:
The study of Hungarian culture as comparative central European cultural studies / Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Louise O. Vasvári -- Literacy, culture, and history in the work of Thienemann and Hajnal / András Kiséry -- Vámbéry, Victorian culture, and Stoker's Dracula / David Mandler -- Memory and modernity in Fodor's geographical work on Hungary / Steven Jobbitt -- The fragmented (cultural) body in Polcz's Asszony a fronton (A Woman on the Front) / Louise O. Vasvári -- Contemporary Hungarian literary criticism and the memory of the socialist past / Györgyi Horváth -- The absurd as a form of realism in Hungarian literature / Lilla Tőke -- On the German and English versions of Márai's A gyertyák csonkig égnek (Die Glut and Embers) / Peter Sherwood -- Exile, homeland, and milieu in the oral lore of Carpatho-Rusyn Jews / Ilana Rosen -- Nation, gender, and race in the ragtime culture of millennial Budapest / Éva Federmayer -- Jewish (over)tones in Viennese and Budapest operetta / Ivan Sanders -- Curtiz, Hungarian cinema, and Hollywood / Catherine Portuges -- Lost dreams and sacred visions in the art of Ámos / Debra Pfister -- Art nouveau and Hungarian cultural nationalism / Megan Brandow-Faller -- Hungarian political posters, Clinton, and the (im)possibility of political drag / Erzsébet Barát -- The Cold War, fashion, and resistance in 1950s Hungary / Katalin Medvedev -- Sándor/Sarolta Vay, a gender bender in Fin-de-Siècle Hungary / Anna Borgos -- Women managers communicating gender in Hungary / Nóra Schleicher -- Commemoration and contestation of the 1956 revolution in Hungary / John Joseph Cash -- About the Jewish Renaissance in post-1989 Hungary / Kata Zsófia Vincze -- Aspects of contemporary Hungarian literature and cinema / Ryan Michael Kehoe -- Linguistic address systems in post-1989 Hungarian urban discourse / Erika Sólyom -- Images of Roma in post-1989 Hungarian media / László Kürti -- The Budapest Cow Parade and the construction of cultural citizenship / Lajos Császi and Mary Gluck -- Urbanities of Budapest and Prague as communicated in new municipal media / Agata Anna Lisiak -- The anti-other in post-1989 Austria and Hungary / Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek -- Selected bibliography for work in comparative Hungarian cultural studies / Louise O. Vasvári, Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, and Carlo Salzani
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