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Contents
Preface
Bakos Judit: Fine Arts In Literature
Pellérdi Márta: Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight or, What You Will
Goldmann Márta: "Sirens" The Musical Chapter of Ulysses: Technique and Style
Farkas Ákos: Past in the Present and Future in the Past: T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets and Sweeney Agonistes
Bakos Judit: Literary Self-Portraits Contrasted - in Virginia Woolf and Wyndham Lewis's Portrait of the Artist
Appendix
Mező Judit: Translations
Juhász Gyula: No More Can I Recall (Milyen volt...)
Juhász Gyula: Forever Anna (Anna örök)
Kosztolányi Dezső: Necrology (Halotti beszéd)
Abstracts
Preface
The Department of English Studies at Kodolányi János University College provides courses in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Literature and History, besides its obvious aim to improve students' foreign language proficiency. The studies in the first volume of the Kodolányi Füzetek published in April 1999 covered different theoretical and practical issues in Applied Linguistics.
The present volume gives insight into the research of our colleagues whose main area of interest is 20th century English literature. However, the adjective "English" in the title needs to be accounted for. Today several different English languages are spoken as people's native and second language in a number of countries like India, Thailand, the Philippines, Australia etc. As a result, different literary works are written in English in these countries, therefore, the expression "English novel" is considered to be a broader concept than it used to be. It involves all the literary works made in the English language regardless of whether they were created by British or other authors. This phenomenon explains the word "English" in the title of the volume since the present studies are not exclusively about English writers.
In the first paper BAKOS Judit takes an interdisciplinary approach in comparing the paintings of Vanessa Bell with Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. The second paper investigates Vladimir Nabokov's first English-language novel The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. PELLÉRDI Márta's aim in the study is to show how distinctly Nabokov incorporated Shakespeare's Twelfth Night into the novel. An abundant source of 20th century literary criticism, the theme of the third study is James Joyce's Ulysses. GOLDMANN Márta discusses how musical style and technique creates the text of the chapter called 'Sirens.' In the fourth paper FARKAS Ákos argues for the notion that art has to be light and serious at the same time, in the mirror of two T. S. Eliot works, Four Quartets and Sweeney Agonistes. The fifth paper by BAKOS Judit is concerned with comparing and contrasting Virginia Woolf and Wyndham Lewis's literary self-portraits.
As the Kodolányi Füzetek provides an opportunity for the publication of a wide range of issues, the editors found it important to include MEZŐDI Judit's poem translations in the Appendix of this volume to show the versatility of the colleagues working for our department.
We hope, dear readers, that you will find our work enjoyable.
The Editor
Abstracts
Fine Arts in Literature (BAKOS Judit)
The paper contrasts Vanessa Bell's paintings with Virginia Woolf's novel entitled
To the Lighthouse. Virginia Woolf must have taken her sister's artistic behaviour
as a model in creating Lily Briscoe's complex character. With sensitivity, moderation
and strong faith in creation Lily represents an artist struggling with a lack
of self-confidence. The process of painting Mrs. Ramsay's portrait is not only
about painting but also about the techniques of a novelist. The first and most
significant step of creation is an intellectual activity, through which the
artist organises her ideas and feelings of her impressions about the world so
that she could express her message to the audience in a comprehensible way.
Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight or, What You
Will (PELLÉRDI Márta)
The paper deals with Vladimir Nabokov's first novel written in English, The
Real Life of Sebastian Knight. In this novel Nabokov offers the parody of an
autobiography. The article demonstrates how Nabokov integrated Shakespeare's
Twelfth Night into the novel through a network of subtle implications. With
this discovery the genre of the novel can be determined.
"Sirens". The Musical Chapter of Ulysses: Technique
and Style (GOLDMANN Márta)
The article is about an episode in James Joyce's Ulysses called "Sirens",
the musical chapter of the novel. Music is not only one of the principal topics
of this episode, but it is also about music per se. The author examines the
different levels at which music appears in the style and technique and how the
text of the chapter is formed by style and technique. At the end of the paper
the author discusses Joyce's influence on contemporary composers.
Past in the Present and Future in the Past: T. S. Eliot's
Four Quartets and Sweeney Agonistes (FARKAS Ákos)
By analysing a T. S. Eliot poem and a play the author makes an attempt to prove
that seriousness and popularity are strongly interrelated notions in literature
and in arts in general. According to the author real art must be serious and
light, traditional and modern in a way that it is rooted in the past but looks
forward into the future.
Literary Self-Portraits Contrasted - in Virginia Woolf and
Wyndham Lewis's Portrait of the Artist (BAKOS Judit)
Applying an interdisciplinary approach the paper sheds light on the connection
between fine arts and literature, the basic characteristic of modernism, and
analyses the rivalry of painting and literature and the relationship between
artists and their works of art. Examining the authors' disguised or overt self-portraits
the paper is searching for shared aesthetic notions in Virginia Woolf's and
other contemporary authors' (James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis) autobiographical
novels. The artist heroes examined are Tarr, Kreisler, Stephen Dedalus, Paul
Morel and Lily Briscoe.