This roll includes posts about the research our MA and PhD students do.
As explained in my previous blog post, Yeats created an elitist, authoritarian myth of Jonathan Swift during his time spent in Fascist Italy (in the city of Rapallo). Now I am going to show you how he appropriated his reading of Swift to the Irish context and his own elitist discourse of decay. In The Words…
Over the last few months, my research interest has turned towards the examination of the influence of Italian Fascism and authoritarian politics on William Butler Yeats’s oeuvre. I usually discuss this topic with regard to Luigi Pirandello’s and Yeats’s theatre, but this time, I chose to explore this theme in Yeats’s reading of the eighteenth-century…
The avid researchers of the Rare Book Project are Koncz Krisztina, Unger Ágota, and Zsifcsák Emese (Behind the camera and the project: Zsolt Almási). Have you ever found a hundred-year-old book at home? Did you feel that you were holding a piece of history? The English Department’s Rare Book Project allowed our research group to…
Edward Burne-Jones: The Last Sleep of Arthur, 1881–1898 When we look at some of the most popular pieces of fiction in the English language we find that most of them contain a little bit of supernatural. From the ever popular plays of Shakespeare to the newest young adult fiction witches are guaranteed to pop up…
With this article, the first stage of my research ends. My conclusions are the following: Greider emancipates himself and others by obliterating the “main” Brenner bloodline; he becomes authority in a village where authority meant restraints and desolation of morals. At the end, he abandons the village like he was never meant to be there. Hell-bent…
Last spring I composed a BA thesis, which shed light on the disgustingly honourable ethics of Martin McDonagh’s protagonists in In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths. Although my BA work will not be directly referenced in the upcoming series of articles, it still provides the ideological basis of my MA thesis about Western “cowboy” principles in…
“No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith.” -R.A. Salvatore Dragons have always been a significant part of almost every culture’s folkloric identity, and even…
A few months ago I visited the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, looking for primary sources for one of my research projects. When I found nothing I asked one of the librarians whether she could help me. Her only answer was a question about whether I’ve tried Wikipedia yet, “because they usually have…
In my previous posts, I mostly wrote about the advantages of being an anti-self: we have seen that people with antithetical abilities are all exceptional, talented characters, strongly connected to art and high thinking. But Yeats firmly believes that the antithetical impulse may grow a fanaticism and a terror, and may oppress the ignorant and…