Hungarian rhapsodies : essays on ethnicity, identity, and culture /
Like the renowned American writer Edmund Wilson, who began to learn Hungarian at the age of 65, Richard Teleky started his study of that difficult language as an adult. Unlike Wilson, he is a third-generation Hungarian American with a strong desire to understand how his ethnic background has affecte...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Seattle] :
University of Washington Press,
c1997.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface ; A Note on Hungarian Names ; Playtime: Adult Language Learning, Edmund Wilson, and Me ; ""What the Moment Told Me"" : The Photographs of Andre Kertesz ; The Archives of St. Elizabeth of Hungary ; Without Words: Hungarians in North American Fiction ; The Empty Box: Hollywood Ethnicity and Joe Eszterhas ; A Short Dictionary of Hungarian Stereotypes and Kitsch ; Visiting Pannonia ; Toward a Course on Central European Literature in Translation ; The Poet as Translator: Margaret Avison's ""Hungarian Snap"" ; Introducing Peter Esterhazy.
- ""What Comes After"" : Hungarian Voices, Summer 1993 The Third Generation and the ""Problem"" of Ethnicity ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Credits ; Index.