Chasing Impressions: A Comparative Cultural Analysis of Impressionistic Criticism in Hungary

Lo Bello, Maya J.

doi:10.5325/complitstudies.56.3.0573

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Research Article| September 15 2019

Chasing Impressions: A Comparative Cultural Analysis of Impressionistic Criticism in Hungary

Maya J. Lo Bello

MAYA J. LO BELLO is an assistant professor of English Language and Literature at Eötvös Loránd University's (ELTE) Faculty of Primary and Preschool Education, She is currently completing her PhD at ELTE's Department of Modern Hungarian Literature and Language. Lo Bello's research focuses on Miksa Fenyő's role in establishing the journal, Nyugat (West), as well as his contributions to literary criticism. Other than editing a collected volume of Miksa Fenyő's writings, Lo Bello also translates Hungarian literature into English.

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Comparative Literature Studies (2019) 56 (3): 573–586.

https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.56.3.0573

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The aim of this article is to test whether the comparative cultural analysis of a critical text can provide a greater understanding of why Nyugat's editor, Miksa Fenyő, chose impressionistic criticism's highly aesthetic, yet seemingly quixotic approach to promote modern literature in Hungary, as opposed to selecting more conventional means.

impressionism, Hungary

2019

The Pennsylvania State University

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