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Contents

The Poem is Alive, Just Like the Author Themselves. An Essay on the Evolution and Definition of 'The Poem As Such'
In the State of Earthly Damnation. the Motif of Damnation in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Raven'
Creation, Imagination and Metapoetry in 'Kubla Khan'. An Essay on Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Paradigmatic Poem
In the Shadow of Different Types of Deaths. the Motif of Death in William Butler Yeats's Poetry After 1920
Reading 'Birthday Letters'. a Personal Essay on Intertextual and Personal Relations Depicted in Ted Hughes's Poem 'Wuthering Heights'
The Poem Locked in Itself. On Paul Celan's Poetics and Poetry
Lost in Translation. Possible Problems Around the Translatability of Paul Celan's Poems in the Mirror of John Felstiner's English Translations
'Message in the Bottle'. Paul Celan's Speech the Meridian As a Manifest of Art and Poetry Theory
The Illusion of Immediacy. Medial Aspects of Paul Celan's Poetry
The Flood of Decay - Already So Close? Essay on a Poem by István Géher
The Double Cross Blood Union. Outline of the History of a Secret Military Organisation of Hungary in the 1920s
The Hungarian Beer Hall Putsch. The Szemere-Bobula-Ulain Coup Plan, 1923
The Bomb Outrage in Erzsébetváros. An Action of Political Terrorism in Hungary, 1922
Is the Bildung Entertainment Park True or False? A Short Essay on Pergamon Museum in Berlin

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Blurb

Balázs Kántás was born in Budapest, Hungary, 1987. He graduated at Eötvös Loránd University in BA English Studies in 2009, then in MA Literary and Cultural Studies in 2011. He obtained a PhD degree in Comparative Literature in 2015, at the same university. As a literary historian, his primary field of research is the oeuvre and Hungarian reception of Paul Celan. Furthermore, he is also a very active critic and scholar of contemporary Hungarian literature. Currently he works as an archivist in the National Archives of Hungary, and as such, he is also a researcher of history of the radical right-wing paramilitary movemements of Hungary in the 1920s, including their international relations with their German and Austrian counterparts. He is the author of numerous monographs, collections of studies and source publications.

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