Enikő Bollobás

Enikő Bollobás

ENIKŐ BOLLOBÁS is professor of literature at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Letters and Sciences. Her books include monographs on the poets Charles Olson (Twayne, 1992) and Emily Dickinson (Balassi, 2015), two histories of American literature (Osiris, 2005 and 2015), and two theoretical inquiries into performativity and subjectivity (Peter Lang, 2010; Balassi, 2015). Her scholarly studies, totaling over two hundred, have appeared in international scholarly journals, among them, American Quarterly, Arcade, The Emily Dickinson Journal, Hungarian Cultural Studies, Journal of Pragmatics, Language and Style, Modern Philology, Paideuma, and Word and Image.

EVERYDAY COMMUNISM – ON LIFE, BOOKS AND WOMEN IN COMMUNIST HUNGARY

EVERYDAY COMMUNISMOn Life, Books and Women in Communist Hungary(1) I will touch upon one general and three specific topics in this paper. First I will review what totalitarianism looked like in our everyday lives during the decades of communism. Moving on from this general assessment, my second topic addresses the

THE TWO DOORS OF SÁNDOR SCHEIBER

The Scholar Rabbi Born A Hundred Years Ago1 Hungary’s Jewish history is rich in scholar rabbis. Perhaps the first was the Moravian-born Lipót Löw (1811–1875), erudite and dignified, and considered one of the greatest Hungarian orators of all times. As a proud Hungarian Jew, Löw broke with long tradition and

UNITED IN SEPARATION

On the Common Roots of Pennsylvanian and Hungarian Anabaptism The history of 17th and 18th century Anabaptism provides a unique link between the religious and cultural histories of the United States and Hungary. The common roots and shared traits of American and Hungarian Anabaptism, however, have received little scholarly attention

HUNGARIAN IN AMERICA – AMERICAN IN HUNGARY

János Xántus, the 19th Century Naturalist Two passages may stand side by side to illustrate the appraisal and achievement in the United States of John (János) Xántus, 19th century Hungarian naturalist and traveller of the American West. The fi rst is what Xántus himself wrote to his Hungarian editor, István

SILENCED VOICES

Hungarian Plays from Transylvania Silenced Voices – Hungarian Plays from Transylvania is an impeccable volume that collects five of the “forgotten playwrights” of Central Europe: András Sütõ (1927–2006), János Székely (1929–1992), Géza Páskándi (1933–1995), Csaba Lászlóffy (1939-), and Géza Szõcs (1953-). They are Hungarian dramatists from Transylvania, each represented by