Thesis supervisor
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Research topic
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Bán Zsófia
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Gender Perspectives in
20th and 21st Century American Literature
This research topic involves the investigation of 20th and
21st century American literature from a primarily gender perspective.
Literature is understood int he widest possible sense, including a wide
variety of genres.
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Bán Zsófia
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Gender Perspectives in
20th and 21st Century American Visual Culture
This research topic includes a wide variety of potential
issues related to 20th and/or 21st century Amewrican visual culture
investigated from a primarily gender perspective. The research may include
methods used in esthetics, social sciences/sociology, urban studies, memory
studies or cultural anthropology.
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Barátné Hajdu Ágnes
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Classification and
Indexing, Bibliographic Discription, Information Systems
Classification and Indexing, Information Retrieval;
Information Systems; Identify and Authority of Documents; Open Access and
Repositories; Standards and Adaptations; Actual and Historical Viewpoints of
Scholarly Publications in the National and International Circumstances.
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Barátné Hajdu Ágnes
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Library Science and
Local History in 19-20. Centuries
Research of Books-, Libraries- and Local History: Crucial
Representatives and Outstanding Periods; Famous Librarians; historical
questions of Reading Clubs and Civil Associations of Society from 19. century
to nowadays; Roles of Civil Establishment in the last centuries.
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Barátné Hajdu Ágnes
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Library Management and
Marketing. Library Policy
Standards, guides, benchmarks; Qualitative controlling in
libraries; strategy management; Knowledge Management; Marketing and PR;
Information Literacy; Legal Regulations; Management of Library Services;
Library Provisions in the Rural Area; Roles of National and International
Library Associations and Federations concerning Library Policy.
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Barátné Hajdu Ágnes
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Users, User Education,
Special Groups in Libraries
The Reading, Reading Sociology and Reading Pedagogy; Lifelong
Learning and the Library; Freedom of Information; Access to Information;
Equal Opportunity, Attention for Ability and Aptitude in libraries; special
questions of User Education.
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Barátné Hajdu Ágnes
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Research question of
Library Pedagogy
Theoretical and Philosophical Questions of Library Pedagogy;
Elements of Instructional Programs of School Libraries; Literacy and Reading
Promotion; Methodological Possibilities of Measurement and Development for
Information Skills and Competences; Development of New Programs and Services.
History of School Libraries.
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Benczik Vera
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The Fantastic in
English and American Literature and Culture
Research related to works – print, digital and visual – that
fall within the broadley defined field of the fantastic, mostly science
fiction and fantasy.
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Benczik Vera
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Canadian Women Writers
The topic encompasses research related to the field of women
writers throughout Canada’s literary history.
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Benczik Vera
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Modern and Contemporary
American Popular Culture
The topic encompasses research related to the texts,
phenomena and contexts of modern and contemporary American popular culture.
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Benczik Vera
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Gender in Popular Culture
This topic encompases the analyis of gender aspects in
various products and trends of popular culture, ranging from popular literary
genres and modes to visual media like television and cinema.
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Benczik Vera
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Gender in Canadian Literature
This topic includes research which focuses on aspects of
gender in modern and contemporary Canadian literature, either presenting a
single-author study or a comparative study of several Canadian authors from a
gender-perspective.
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Bollobás Enikő
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The Histories of
American Literature
The various canons, schools, and traditions of American
literature; regional literatures in the US.
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Bollobás Enikő
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Theory in American Literature
Poststructuralist theories on (American) literature; new
perspectives offered by feminist theories and cultural studies; literary
theory and reading practices.
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Bollobás Enikő
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Gender and American Culture
Gender as a cultural and cultural construct; social scripts
of gender; normative and subversive masculinities and femininities; theories
of the body; theories of the subject; gender and subjectivation; inflections
of the subject; the normative scripts of gender; boundary crossings.
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Bollobás Enikő
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Women Writers—A
Comparative Approach
Grounded in literary historical, feminist critical, and genre
critical approaches, this doctoral research focuses on 19th and 20th (as well
as 21st) century women writers. We conduct a comparative analysis of the
various (discursive and performative) processes of gender construction, the
relevant cultural scripts, and the applied genre conventions (Bildungsroman,
Künstlerroman, autobiography, roman a clef) . Authors discussed include,
among others, Emily Dickinson, Jane Austen, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate
Chopin, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, H.D. [Hilda
Doolittle], Djuna Barnes, Willa Cather, Sylvia Plath, Carson McCullers,
Denise Levertov, Alice Munro, Lydia Davis, Margit Kaffka, Sophie Török, and
Zsuzsa Rácz.
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Bollobás Enikő
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Embodied and Narrative
Subjectivity in Literature and Culture
Framed by theories of the subject, embodiment, and
autobiography, this research focuses on the discursive-narrative processes at
work in the construction of the gendered, relational, and embodied subject.
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Bollobás Enikő
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Boundary Crossings in
American Literature and Culture
Informed by theories of passing, this doctoral research
focuses on the textual locations and processes of transgression between various
binary oppositions (man/woman, white/black, heterosexual/homosexual, etc.),
thus creating transgressive and often hybrid identities.
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Falvay Dávid
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Italian Philology and
Manuscript Studies
Research is focused on unpublished or unstudied Italian
manuscripts: textual, historical, codicological and paleographical analysis.
On the one hand ancient Italian literature (before the 17th century), with a
special emphasis on medieval and renaissance period, first of all in codices;
on the other one mostly narrative sources of Italian history and cultural
history are examined.
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Falvay Dávid
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Literary and Cultural
Relations between Hungary and Italy
The research focuses on literary and historical aspects of
the relations between Hungary and Italy. On the one hand literary impacts,
links and parallels are analysed as well as Hungarian connections in the
Italian literature and Italian connections in the Hungarian one. On the other
hand political, dynastic, religious and cultural links between Italy and
Hungary are examined.
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Falvay Dávid
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Religiosity and
Religious Literature in Italy the 13th-17th Century
Italian culture in the medieval and early modern period was
characterized by religion in a fundamental way. Several historical phenomena
(such as religious movements, orders, lay and heretical movements, religious
reforms etc.) and a number of literary genres (such as hagiography, religious
poetry, mystery plays, treaties, miracle-accounts, etc) can offer specific
possibilities of research in this field.
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Farkas Ákos
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The Condition of England Novel and its Twentieth-century
Revival
Based on an assessment of nineteenth century forerunners (e.g.,
Disraeli, Dickens, Gaskell, Ch. Bronte, Forster, F. M. Ford, D. H. Lawrence,
V. Wool) the dissertee will examine the potentials and pitfalls of applying
the critical term “condition of England novel” to one or several significant
contemporary (or near-contemporary) writers associated with the social
fiction of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (e.g., Evelyn Waugh,
Anthony Burgess, Margaret Drabble, David Lodge, Martin Amis, Maggie Gee). The
dissertee will also consider how the fictional thought-experiments discussed
offer to resolve or transcend such ideational controversies as continue to
divide public discourses and practices in modern Britain to this day (such as
the material-spiritual, economic-cultural, practical-theoretical,
scientific-artistic, Northern-Southern dichotomies).
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Farkas Ákos
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Modernist and Postmodern Traits in the Work
of an “Unclassifiable” Novelist of the 20th Century
The dissertee will undertake to examine the work of a major
twentieth-century or contemporary writer (e.g., Huxley, Nabokov, Burgess,
Lodge, etc.) in order to establish whether the oeuvre surveyed can be
conveniently or usefully classified as belonging to one or several period
styles (realist, modernist, postmodern, etc.). The dissertation to be made
will address the question whether modernist and postmodern writing can be
seen as viable traditions in the light of the works discussed.
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Frank Tibor
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The European origins
of American culture
American culture has had crucial links with European
cultures, its models, subject matter, and ideas had come, especially up to
World War I, from Europe to which it had been primarily related. These
European origins may be investigated in any cultural domain in any pre-WWI
period.
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Gács Anna
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Autobiographic Acts in
Contemporary Culture
Interdisciplinary analysis of the contemporary culture of
self-narratives (in literature, journalism, film, arts, electronic and
digital media). Research proposals should combine perspectives of literary
and art studies, the history of the public sphere, media theory and media
history to understand the context in which self-narratives are born,
published, consumed and discussed today. Research topics should focus on the
role gender plays in these mechanisms.
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Gellért Marcell
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Early Modern English Drama and Theatre
Early modern theatre in England: Elizabethan and Jacobean public
playhouses – their culture-historical role and significance. The creative
interplay of drama and theatre: the agency of metatheatrical dramaturgy in
the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries (Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson,
Marston, Tourneur, Middleton, Webster, Ford).
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Hetényi Zsuzsa
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The Russian Prose of 20th Century
Great periods, great writers of the Russian prose of 20th century.
Continuity and interconnectedness between the parallel forms of
existence—that of official and prohibited, tamizdat, samizdat and émigré
literature.
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Hetényi Zsuzsa
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Bilingual Writers, Double Identity
Bilingual authors’ oeuvre as a special field in literature.
Bilingualism and identity. The bifocused approach as a phenomenon of
language, perception of the world and as a concept.
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Horváth Krisztina
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Representation of Reality
and Social Criticism in the Contemporary French Novel
The authors of the last quarter century—despite their
individual differences—provide a good example for a change in the relationship
to the representation of reality and history and story-telling. Besides an
apparent return to traditional novel techniques, however, metalepsis retains
its important role in contemporary French narrative literature.
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Imre Zoltán
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Contemporary European
Drama and Theatre
The researches investigate the various relations,
connections, dramaturgical technics, theatrical styles, social embedments of
the various contemporary European dramas and theatres, focused especially on
alternative/independent/experimental formations.
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Imre Zoltán
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Contemporary Hungarian
Drama and Theatre
The researches investigate the various relations,
connections, dramaturgical styles, theatrical styles, social embedments of
the contemporary Hungarian theatre, focused especially on
alternative/independent/experimental formations.
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Imre Zoltán
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Drama and Theatre in
the Kadár-regime
The research investigates the various relations between
drama, theatre and power, focused especially on the various roles theatre
played and were utilised on the different levels of social formations in the
Kadar-era.
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Kállay Géza
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The Interface Between Literature, Literary
Theory and Philosophy
The Candidate will choose a „school” (or „schools”) of literary
theory/literary criticsim and she will deal with its/their philosophical
underpinnings, as well as she will demosntrate how the method(s) may be
applied to works of literature
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Kállay Géza
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Shakespeare-plays and/or Early Modern
English Texts from a Philosophical Perspective
The Canditate will focus on Shakespeare plays, and/or dramas or other
texts of Early Modern England and will provide interpretations. As the
scaffolding of the interpretations, either a contemporary philosophical trend
(analytical aesthetics, phenomenology, heremeneutics, deconstruction, ethical
criticsm, new formalism, etc.) will be in focus, or the dissertation will
show how philosophical trends in the Eraly Modern Age had an effect on
dramawriting.
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Kállay Géza
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The Realisations of the Dramatic Texts:
from Text to Performance
The Candiate is free to choose English dramatic texts from any period.
She will interpret these texts with respect to the current trends of
Performance Philosophy, Perfomance Criticism and Media Studies, the latter
wilh the the theatre-as-medium in focus. She can also rely on aesthetic
approaches with the situation, with the phenomenon of presence, or with the
singular event-and-effect in the centre of her approach. The main task is to
show the „story” of the „page to the stage”, and/or even on the stage as a
performance, possibly including even the actor or the director, or both.
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Kállay Géza
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Gender Philosophies
and LiteraryInterpretation
The topic may be interpreted in two ways: the Candidate may
give an account of how literature has been read by e.g. certain feminist
philosophical schools (e.g. Judith Butler, TorilMoi, etc.), or the Candidate
herself interprets literary texts using various aspects of gender-philosophy.
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Kelemen János
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The Problem of
Language in Italian Literature
The research, for PhD-students in literature and philosophy,
has the following three main subjects: the De Vulgari Eloquentia e Dante’s
theory of language; the „Questione della lingua” in the 16th century; Croce’s
philosophy of language; Pasolini and the problem of literarian language;
Eco’s theories.
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Kelemen János
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Aspects of Theory and
Science in Dante’s Works
The main subject of the research – for PhD-students in
literature and in philosophy – is the analysis of some aspects of Dante’s
work, which are relevant from a philosophical point of view. On the other
hand the research focuses on the multidisciplinary character of Dante’s work
as well, by the analysis of the convergences and divergences between
Commedia, Convivio and Monarchia.
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Kenyeres János
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Twentieth-century and Contemporary Canadian
Fiction
The research is centred on the work of a significant representative of
twentieth-century or contemporary Canadian fiction. The investigation
explores such key questions as multiculturalism and identity, the literary
representation of the “other,” immigrant experience, hybridity, regionalism
in literature, the invocation of the north, the centre and the peripheries or
issues of border and space – on the basis of some selected works and relevant
(typically, modern, postmodern and/or postcolonial) theories.
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Kenyeres János
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The Power of Words: Northrop Frye and
Modern Literary Criticism
Author of over thirty books, including Fearful Symmetry, Anatomy of
Criticism, The Great Code and Words with Power, Northrop Frye is undeniably
one of the most significant literary critics of the twentieth century, whose
work can be associated with such diverse fields as myth criticism, Biblical
scholarship, social theory and cultural studies. The aim of the research is
to explore Frye’s far-reaching thoughts in the context of some modern (and
post-modern) theories, while also investigating his reception as a critic and
theoretician.
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Kenyeres János
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The Comparative Analysis of Modern and/or Postmodern
American and Canadian Trends in Fiction
Comparative research into the works of some American and Canadian
fiction writers to explore the individual aspects of their art from the point
of view of a critical school, while also establishing some general features
which may contribute to an understanding of major developments in modern
and/or postmodern American and Canadian literature.
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Kenyeres János
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The Comparative Analysis of Modern and/or Postmodern
British and Canadian Trends in Fiction
Comparative research into the works of some British and Canadian
fiction writers to explore the individual aspects of their art from the point
of view of a critical school, while also establishing some general features
which may contribute to an understanding of major developments in modern
and/or postmodern British and Canadian literature.
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Kiss Farkas Gábor
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Latin Poetry in the Cities
(1590–1650)
The purpose of this research project is to map up how and in
what social circumstances Neo-Latin poetry functioned nt he cities of Royal
Hungary and Transylvania, outside the usual contexts as the royal, or
aristocratic courts, the higher clergy and the schools exercises. Beside the
works of Johannes Bocatius from Kosice, it will be important to examine the
poetic output of other cities, the choices of genres in occasional poetry
(epithalamia, epicedia), and the main classical traditions followed in these
works. What were their places of performance, what impact were they supposed
to achieve for their authors, and for the community in which they were
composed. Necessary languages: Latin (advanced); English (advanced, in case
the dissertation will be written in English); and one or more of the
following languages: German, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak
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Kiszl Péter
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The Future of the Library
– the Library of the Future
Public collection system in the 21th century, modern library
in the information and knowledge society. The model of the multifunctional
library. New trends in international librarianship and the possibilities of
their implementation in Hungary. Comparative research of forecasts.
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Kiszl Péter
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Market Economy and Librarianship
in the Information Society
Researching the methods of information and knowledge
management. The theory and practice of corporate information management and
information consultancy. A complex analysis of the types and providers of
business information. The study of the efficiency of library and information
services.
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Kiszl Péter
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The Past, the Present
and the Future of Training in Library and Information Science
Researching all of the levels of training in library and
information science, international comparison and Hungarian specificities.
The interdisciplinary nature of the field and terminological changes. The
endeavors of international professional organizations. Practices in tracking
graduates’ careers, the value of the degree in the labour market.
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Komáromy Zsolt
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English Romantic Literature
I invite students for this topic who have an interst in various aspects
of the English literatrure of the period from cc. 1780 to cc. 1830. More
specific topics can include the oeuvres of individual authors, the relation
of poetry, the novel and drama in the period, English romantic aesthetics and
the history of criticiam in the period, histories of particular genres in the
period, the relation of English Romanticism to 18th century literature, the
peculiarities of English romanticism in the wider context of European
Romantic literature.
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Komáromy Zsolt
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Eighteenth Century British Literature
I invite students for this topic who have an interst in various aspects
of the British literatrure and intellectual life of the period from cc. 1700
to cc. 1780. More specific topics can include the oeuvres of individual
authors, the nature of classicism and neoiclassicism in a british context,
the history of aesthetics and of criticiam in the period, histories of
particular genres in the period, the literature and theory of sentimentalism,
the peculiarities of the Enlightenment in Britain.
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Kroó Katalin
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The Poetics of
19th-century Russian Literature from a Comparatistic Point of view (from
Antiquity to 20th Century)
The research theme includes the study of the oeuvre of the
classical and the so-called “small masters” from the Russian Golden Age,
their individual poetics, concrete case studies of literary works,
investigations into the problems of lyric, epic and dramatic
text-constructions and genre poetics.
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Kroó Katalin
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Literary Theory and Literary
Semiotics: Intertextuality, Intermediality, Text-connectedness, Semantic Textual
Worlds, Genre Theory
The research has theoretical orientation brought close to
literary semiotics. The problems of intertextuality, intermediality and
semiotic translation processes are put center stage. Emphasis is laid on the
poetological study of textual constructs and the modes of meaning-emergence
in the literary work as seen through semantic models. Text formation is
connected to aspects of genre theory. The various semiotic approaches to the
cultural text are also studied from a methodological point of view.
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Kulcsár-Szabó Zoltán
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Theory and History of
Modern Lyric Poetry
Proposals should situate themselves within the field of lyric
theory and the literary history of Modernism. The range of possible dissertation
projects includes rhetorical and deconstructive theories of reading poetry,
issues of genre theory, and investigations into the fields of 20th and 21st
centuries’ Hungarian and German poetry, as well as comparative approaches.
Proposals addressing the crossings between literary history and the history
of media are particularly welcome.
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Kulcsár-Szabó Zoltán
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Modern Literature and
the Theories of the Political
Proposals should situate themselves within the broad field of
literary Modernism, aiming at either case studies with a focus on the
relations between aesthetic and political issues in Hungarian and German
literature in the 20th and 21st centuries, or at theoretical investigations
in those fields of political theory that have significantly contributed to
the reformulation of general questions of aesthetic experience and the
understanding of literature since the 1980ies.
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Lebovics Viktória
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Hungarian Literary and Cultural Comparative
Studies
Due to the neighborhood of Hungarian and
Ukrainian territories, Hungarian-Ukrainian literary and Cultural Comparative
studies are able to reveal the most important and significant aspects of
cultural interrelations of the two nations in different historical periods.
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Lebovics Viktória
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The History of Ukrainian Novel
The history and development of Ukrainian
literature strongly interconnected with social, economical and political
aspects of the existance of Ukrainian nation. The development and history of
Ukrainian novel is strongly interconnected with these processes.
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Lebovics Viktória
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The History of Ukrainian Drama
The history and development of Ukrainian
literature strongly interconnected with social, economical and political
aspects of the existance of Ukrainian nation. The quite special history and
development of Ukrainian drama is interrelated with these processes as awell
as with Russian and European drama.
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Lebovics Viktória
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Hungarian-Ukranian and Ukrainian-Hungarian
Literary Translation
Analysis of Literary Translation of Hungarian
and Ukrainian literary works gives the opportunity to study Hungarian and
Ukrainian literature, the individual style of the authors from another
aspect, to get a compleately new vision of the literary work, to reveal the
hidden interconnections and connotations.
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Lénárt Tamás
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Medial and Cultural
Anthropology of the 20th Century
The research proposal expects research projects that consider
cultural activities, production, instruments and techniques as an answer or
reconsideration to the anthropological question „What is human?”
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Lénárt Tamás
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Prose Poetics in the
20th Century Hungarian Literature
The research proposal expects research projects that examine
the linguistic, narrative and figurative structures in Hungarian „modern” and
„post-modern” prose.
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Lénárt Tamás
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Visual Culture and
Literature
The research proposal expects research projects that, after
the „pictorial turn” of the humanities, analyze the role, the impact and the
history of the images, the imaginary, the optic media and the epistemology of
vision in a culture determined by the written and spoken language.
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Molnár Gábor Tamás
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Theory of the
Modern/Postmodern Novel
This topic includes theoretical questions concerning the
novel in the 20th and 21st centuries. These questions may entail a closer
look at individual works from the angle of narratology, stylistic or poetic
analysis, as well as broader issues of history, representation or asthetic
ideologies.
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Molnár Gábor Tamás
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Literary Theory and
the Teaching of Literature
This topic focuses on the relationship between the
theoretical study and the teaching of literature. The questions raised
include: what theoretical conceptions of literature are implied in various
practices of teaching? How can literary theory as a discipline contribute to
the renewal of the teaching of literature?
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Molnár Gábor Tamás
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Lyric Theory and Lyric
Reading
This research topic aims at the various modes of reading
modern works of poetry in the framework of recent genre theory. Research
questions concern the generic definability of lyric poetry as well as the
historic variability of lyric genres and schools of poetry. Research in genre
theory is thus contextualized by literary and intellectual history.
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Molnár Gábor Tamás
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Translation and the
Languages of the Novel
What role do translations play in the dissemination of the
modern novel? What are the challenges posed by the linguistic peculiarities
of modern and postmodern novels? What is the relationship between the
internationalization of the novel and the linguistic-poetic composition of novels
in the era of globalization?
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Nagy József
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G.B. Vico’s Work in
the Context of 18th Century’s Italian Literature and Philosophy
The aim of the lecture (mainly for PhD-students in literature
and philosophy) is to analyze the work of Giambattista Vico, considered to be
the founder of philosophy of history and of modern hermeneutic theory. I
would like to offer a general overview of some aspects of Vico’s though which
can be relevant both from a literarian than from a philosophical point of
view. The lecture will give an account of the works of some Italian authors
of the 18th and 19th centuries as well who gave important contributions to
the formation of modern Dante-studies (G.V. Gravina, S. Bettinelli, G. Gozzi,
V. Alfieri, U. Foscolo and G. Leopardi). Specifically, in connection to
Vico’s work, the main subjects are the following: the theory of science and
of language, the hermeneutic and philosophical-historical principles of Vico.
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Nagy József
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The Postmodern Literarian
Representation of the Middle Ages in the Novels of Calvino and of Eco, with Regard
of their Works on Theory of Literature
The lecture – mainly for PhD- students in literature and in
philosophy – focuses on the analysis of the theoretical questions which deal
with the postmodern literary representation of the Middle Ages in some novels
of Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco.
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Nagy József
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Dante Alighieri: Poetry,
Theology, Theory of Literature, Political Theory. The Connections between
Commedia, Convivio and Monarchia
The lecture – primarily for PhD-students in literature and
philosophy – focuses on the multidisciplinary character of Dante’s work, by
the analysis of the convergences and divergences between Commedia, Convivio
and Monarchia.
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Palágyi Tivadar
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Ethnonyms and Personal
Names in the Latin and Old French Versions of William of Tyre’s Chronicle
The 12the century Chronicle of William of Tyre (Historia
rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum) was translated into Old French in
the 13th century (Estoire d’Eracle). A comparative analysis of these two
versions, focusing on ethnonyms and personal names, could furnish interesting
data on 12-13th Old French language usage as well as on the history of
mentalities.
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Palágyi Tivadar
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Mingling of Stylistic Levels
in 12th and 13th Century Old French Romances
Besides the mainstream courtley romances of Chrétien de
Troyes there also existed an other type of romance, called realistic. Its
main representative was Gautier d’Arras. His romance Eracle contains both
realistic and hagiographic parts. This corpus can be widened to include such
13th century Old French romances as the Roman de la Rose, which due to its
two authors covers a very wide range of stylistic levels.
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Palágyi Tivadar
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On the Frontier of Romance
and Chanson de Geste: Comparative Analysis of Old French Chansons de Geste
and Romances from the Point of View of Figures of Speech
Clearly distinguishable at the beginning, the literary genres
of chanson de geste and romance seem to intermingle in the 13th century.
Pointing out and analysing the figures of speech inherited from the Latin
past and from contemporary oral usage on a corpus including chansons de geste
and medieval romances could help to give a more clear-cut picture and a
better definition of these two literary genres.
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Palágyi Tivadar
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Francophone
Literatures
French literature and francophone literatures; subversivness
of francophone literatures (centres-peripheries, problem of plurilingualism,
hybridity and transgression, littérature-monde); typology of francophone
literatures; characteristics, periods and authors of francophone literatures.
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Pomozi Péter
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Researches on Folklore
Language Archaisms (Baltic-Finnic–Mari–Hungarian Comparisons)
Studies in linguistic archaisms of the old-style ballads,
folk songs and archaic folk prayers. The folklore has preserved linguistic
treasures that are definitively vanished from the “written culture” due to
the changing of genre norms, the spirit of the age and the language itself. This
linguistic memory encoded in folklore may keep older layers of the language
than the philologically extrapolated age of the given ballads, folk songs or
archaic prayers. The research methods are transdisciplinary.
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Pomozi Péter
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Comparative Dance Folklore
Studies (Baltic-Finnic – Hungarian)
Historical and/or typological comparisons of the
Baltic-Finnic (primarily Estonian and/or Finnish) and Hungarian folkdances.
Periodisation and structural analyse of main types and motifs.
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Sipos Balázs
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The Politics of Femininity
and the Public Sphere in Hungary, 1895-1945
The research approaches to the history of feminism, the
emancipation of women and the appearing of the new woman in Hungary from a
comparative perspective. The research focuses on the politics of the media
representation of women, the so-called female topics and the femininity.
Regarding the problems of the aftermath of the Great War, the important
question is the great impact of the second wave of nationalism with ethnic
character on the women's organizations, journals and female agency in the
Horthy-era, on one hand. On the other hand the question is how the
Americanization of the Hungarian popular culture might shape the meaning of
femininity.
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Sirató Ildikó
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Hot Pots of Contemporary
Finnish Literature
Exploration of actual contexts and questions of Finnish (and
Swedish or Sami language) literature from diverse adequate approaches of
literature research, even from comparative ones. From textual analysis to
sociology, genre theory or literature history depending ont he choosen
subject of the candidate.
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Sirató Ildikó
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Questions of Finnish/Estonian
Drama and its History
Research of historical or contemporary (multilingual) Finnish
/ Estonian dramas from different approaches beginning of contextual or textual
analysis of the genre and the dramatic text.
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Sirató Ildikó
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Connections between Finnish,
Estonian and Hungarian Literatures/Theatres
Exploration of literature / theatrical connections of
finno-ugric languages speaking European Nations from the points of view of
contemporary and complex methods of connection-history or comparative
research or research of literary translation.
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Szabó Tünde
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19th-Century Russian
Prose
This topic focuses on the poetics of 19th-century prose,
especially the work of F.M. Dostoevsky. Besides the interpretative analysis
of specific works, intertextual connections and the examination of recurring
themes and motives (topos, archetype, universal) within and between different
authors’ oeuvres will have a prominent place in the material to be covered.
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Szabó Tünde
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Contemporary Russian
Literature in the Context of 19th – 20th Century Russian Literary Tradition
When it is compared to its western counterpart, it is one of
the commonly recognised distinctive features of Russian post-modern
literature that in spite of rejecting and deconstructing tradition, it
greatly relies on the literature of the Golden and Silver Age. More than a
simple play with quotations, this involves the transmission of certain deep
structures, ideologems and different types of plots and heroes. This research
topic focuses on this phenomenon.
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Szabó Tünde
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The Literary Hero –
Fiction and Reality. Female Characters in Russian Literature
This topic covers the various aspects of how the literary
hero is moulded, giving principal consideration to processes of
fictionalisation that evolve from a prototype. Besides a theoretical
approach, the examination of female characters in Russian literature, which
since Pushkin has been characterised by “bipolarity”, the presence of dominant
female characters alongside the male protagonists, will be central to this
topic.
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Tamás Ábel
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Materialities of Communication
in Ancient Literature
From its very beginning, ancient literature reflects
permanently upon its technologies and media of communication, while,
simultaneously, it also tries to conceal them. The investigation of the
question should discover the essence of this ambiguity.
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Tamás Ábel
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Philological Practices
One of the most exciting trends in contemporary literary
studies is the theoretical reflection upon philological methods and
practices. The investigation of commentaries, critical editions or
collections of fragments etc. should set out to combine the theory of
philology with the history of books.
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Tamás Ábel
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Variations on Antiquity
in Contemporary Hungarian Poetry
In contemporary Hungarian poetry, a lot of significant
authors have a definitive connection to the classical tradition, be it
intertextual, mythological or historical. The investigation of these
constellations should discover the „antiquities” of contemporary Hungarian
poetry.
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Timár Andrea
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British Romanticism:
Poetics, Politics, History, Philosophy, Society
The study of British Romanticism (1790-1830): poetics
(rhetorics), politics, history, philosophy, art criticism, culture, and
society. The focus is on texts considered as singular rhetorical formations
embedded in the various discoursive contexts of the age.
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Timár Andrea
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British Romanticism: Poetics, Politics,
History, Philosophy, Society
The study of British Romanticism (1790-1830): poetics (rhetorics),
politics, history, philosophy, art criticism, culture, and society. The focus
is on texts considered as singular rhetorical formations embedded in the
various discoursive contexts of the age.
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Timár Andrea
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The analysis of the writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge through a
dialogue between his poetry and prose, focusing on poetics, politics,
philosophy, culture and society.
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Vincze Kata Zsófia
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Narratology
Historically significant motifs achetypes and present day
essential story structures from myths to memes, from fairy tales to
commercials. Communication through narrative strategies in politics, science
or cultural understanding.
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Zsadányi Edit
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Queer Identities and
Querring as Research Concept
This research topic focuses on the different concepts of the
queer. We investigate how artistic representations of queer sexual identities
have led to the scholarly approach of “queering” in the human sciences. We
focus on modern and postmodern fiction, in which representing alternative
gender identities is closely related to the reevaluation of categorization in
language and thinking. Candidates may do research on the works of Gertrude
Stein, Djuna Barnes, Kathy Acker, Jeffrey Eugenides and others.
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