Hungarian Perspectives on the Western Canon: Post-Comparative Readings

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László Bengi is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Eötvös Loránd University Budapest. His research focuses on Hungarian literature and its interaction with natural sciences in the late 19th and the 20th centuries. His publications include Az elbeszélés kihívása The Challenge of Narration (2000); Elbeszélt halál Death Narrated (2012); and Márton László (2015). Ern Kulcsár Szabó is Professor at the Department of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Eötvös Loránd University Budapest. His main fields of research are hermeneutics literary theory and 20th-century Hungarian and German literature. His publications include A magyar irodalom története 1945-1991 The History of Hungarian Literature 1945-1991 (1993); Irodalom és hermeneutika Literature and Hermeneutics (2000); and Kulturtechnik Philologie. Zur Theorie des Umgangs mit Texten (2011) among others.Gábor Mezei is Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Eötvös Loránd University Budapest. His main fields of interest are 20th-century Hungarian literature media theory and the concepts of writing. His publications include Following a Source Text while Being Different Medial Aspects of a Hypograms Translation in Tanulmányok. Irodalomtudományi Doktori Iskola (2012) and his first book Fordítás és anyagiság Az írás mint kultúrtechnika az Örök barátainkban Translation and Materiality Writing as a Cultural Technique in Örök barátaink (2016Gábor Tamás Molnár is Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Hungarian Literary and Cultural Studies at Eötvös Loránd University Budapest. His main areas of interest are theories of interpretation the modern novel and the teaching of literature. He has published four books in Hungarian in addition to a number of articles in various edited volumes.